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Originally Posted by Winterfyre
HLC supports the company via the data packages I suspect. Once they convert a system to HLO you they will still make the money of the data packages, but it sounds like they will now need to develop two version for each release, but intend to only charge us once. In essence there development cost will increase, so either our cost to buy needs to go up or they need to sell a lot more copies or discontinue one of the 2 lines, which would obviously be HLC.
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i suspect for the data packages they will have a conversion program. Now if a new feat/etc needs new features added to the core program then yes it will need to be done twice. HLC isn't going away anytime in the near future.
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This tells me the entire point of HLO is likely to force every member of the gaming group to buy HLO, all of the data packs the group is using and pay a monthly subscription fee in order to drive the number of data packs sold.
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Apparently you think LWD is a malicous company only out for the money. If you really believe this, you should really stop using their software and don't but anymore.
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Does anyone really think it would be a good idea to tell a new player at the table, thanks for coming, but you need to dump $200 on a program & data packs and pay a monthly subscription fee in order to play with our group?
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I don't typically play with new players, I have a group of 9 others I play with regularly, only one doesn't own Hero Lab, but he uses my iPad to play with. If I did have a new player come in, I would probably buy another license and let them use one of spare laptops.
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I've yet to see anything addressing multiple players in the party and how much each person has to pay via program / subscription / data packs to play via HLO.
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Multiple players will cost the same as now, except the $2/month per account, each account can have 5 licenses. The data packages pricing will remain the same I imagine. You can do the math here.