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For GMs, it may actually REDUCE their data usage, possibly in a big way, depending on how they are using the product. If a GM is regularly switching between characters right now to run a game in HLO, the new Campaigns feature streamlines this significantly, loading "lightweight" versions of the characters on their device from which they can perform most in-game operations (GMs can of course still load the full version of a character as needed, in case they want to make deep changes like changing classes, etc). |
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Join Date: Mar 2016
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I just messed around with herolab for 30 minutes to determine usage. I pulled up and messed with 2 characters, one starfinder, one PF2 and then created a PF2 character. It used 5.9mb, this was done in an incognito tab so it would have to load everything as if for the first time.
I opened a second tab and closed the first, pulled up HLO again and the usage was only 130K to load up a character, so with caching it uses very little data. I then let it sit for 60 minutes occasionally messing with it and it used 30k (looked at a gear list I hadn't looked at yet) more. This is like 1 minute on Instagram, and pretty much no data used if you already have it cached. Even if the campaign theater is 5 times this per hour it is pretty much nothing. |
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "multiple license use". Are you wanting a way for multiple different people to use a common set of content? Or a single person to simultaneously use multiple devices?
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I original purchased HLO to see what PF2 would look like and whether it had the same functionality as DNDBeyond because I personally don't like managing that crap. Then I kept it running on the "Soon" announcements, even renewing in March for the mid-year release. While I understand you are a small shop and you have fired people so have less staff, it is just a reality that I will not resubscribe if it lapses past my next re-up date. Everything up to this point I've just consider development funding. Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I think it is fair to say. Additionally, I keep seeing this: Quote:
While I can't speak for ShadowFOOT - I personally prefer the model offered by DNDBeyond where as a DM for my family I can spend the cost myself and share limited time resources for my campaigns specifically. My family creates accounts and doesn't have to buy all the books and pay large monthly or annual fees to keep accounts. User story: As a family of 5 people and the DM of our games, I would like the ability to run a campaign without having to buy expensive subscriptions and digital books for all of my family members much as I do with other online services and physical books. I would have to understand what the base cost of $175 for 180 days of access for my family of 5 would get me over the other service beyond "it's pathfinder!" because the model doesn't seem functional to me. Additionally, when running campaigns of mixed users online and offline - having a single source toolset is very helpful but a $35 per user per campaign (assuming 6 month campaign) is not palatable. |
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Currently I’ve been creating the characters with them all on my account, and they use the PDFs for play. |
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Also, I’d wager I feel more strongly about the second half of my post on licensing anyways. Especially now given that I’ve not paid any fee that I haven’t made myself |
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