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#1 Novama Jul 14, 2014 6:06:10	With the soon release of the 5th edition core rulebooks, with the DnD insider tools offered on the site (compendium, character & encounter generator) be updated for the new edition and when can we expect those updates?   Will some tools be removed?    Will other tools not yet offered be added?
#2 mellored Jul 14, 2014 6:19:05	No. No. Yes, seperatly.   DDI will be for 4e only, with minimal or no updates.  They'll just let it run as is as long as there are enough people paying to keep it running.     My semi-educated-but-still-very-much-a-guess, is that you need about 20,000 subscribers to keep it profitable.  There are currently about 175,000 users.  So i wouldn't worry about it for a few years at lest.     Codename Morningstart is being developed for 5e.   Designed to be used at the table with dice rolls, inititive tracker, character sheets, and such.  There's not too much info on it yet.
#3 Novama Jul 14, 2014 6:23:11	mellored wrote:
#4 mellored Jul 14, 2014 6:30:22	Novama wrote:
#5 Novama Jul 14, 2014 7:01:36	Thanks for linking morningstart
#6 Bantam Jul 14, 2014 9:10:16	What about the dragon and dungeon magazines? Would those have Next/5E content?
#7 mellored Jul 14, 2014 9:13:45	Bantam wrote:
#8 kill_the_wiz_first Jul 14, 2014 9:36:07	I own two servers and use a few shared servers (webhosts) and run stuff like WebSockets, ajax (long polling), and tradition GET sites and one of them can get upwards of 250k unique visitors a month (millions of requests involved; css, images, js, plus addition page loads) and the ajax/sockets games can go upwards of 200k/day so if the code for DDI is extremly unoptimized and needs maintance/updates for hours per day (content designers and/or code designers to fix stuff) they can keep 4e DDI online indefinatly with little cost.   Any given year I may pay $250 - 400~   Now, if DDI is optimized and does not need constant updates then they may need 10-12 subscribers to keep it (per year). Plus it's all probably normal http1.1 requests. At this juncture they could probably just hand it out for free without any signifigant hit to their bottom line. If there's constant "content" updates they, yes, they will need many subscribers.