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Bog97th wrote:

I have to agree...... It's a sad thing but I feel that Dragon and Dungeon have been put on the back burner and subscriptions will be very low for a PDF product that is very late coming to order.... By now #363 should be well on it's way and the full PDFs for 361 and 362 should be up for downloads.

As things currently stand, I cannot see myself getting a subscription;the quantity and quality of content just isn't there even allowing for the bi-monthly schedule. I'm also confused about the blurring of what Dragon and Dungeon cover. Let me explain, the recent article "The Walls of Taer Valaestas" starts with "When the PCs acquire the parchment, read the following:" this sort of article seems more suited to Dungeon; after all it's apparently addressing a DM. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it does seem a bit Dungeon-y. Dungeon 153 has had only one article and no columns during January so it's not like it's too packed for this. Similarly, although I like the snippets of 4th ed information I can't help but feel that this sort of information isn't really "Dragon" and would be on the site anyway, regardless of whether or not Dragon was still in print. After all, they'd be fools not to promote and try to drum up interest in their new product after all. We've also seen previews of products on the site before including web supplements. Not nearly as many previews, granted, but then again they were supplements and not a whole new system.

I also think basing their pricing strategies on MMO subscriptions isn't going to work out too well for them. I not sure they realise the difference in the value you get with a MMO and what we're seeing. If they plan on charging me MMO prices they should know that I expect MMO levels of commitment in return not just a drip feed of articles and some tool rental (I can buy similar tools for 3.5 outright, after all).

I'm still interested in what they can do, I'd love for them to turn it around so I'm thinking "is that all they're charging?" rather than "how much? for that?" However, with each fruitless visit to the site it's gonna take more and more to "wow" me.

Phoenix8008 wrote:

Personally, I've only seen one collected issue so far. However, I don't check here super often anymore (Gee, I wonder why that might be? )so I may have missed it if there's been more. But the above quoted statement shows that they are clearly very behind. I can understand that they may be busy pouring all their efforts into getting 4E up and running, but if they expect there to be any support for their digital initiative here then they are gonna have to prove to us that they want us here.

If you want evidence of them being behind you have only to look at the "Playtest Reports" section of the columns page at http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drmst/columns

"Our staff is hard at work playtesting 4th Edition, and each week, we’ll give you a look inside one of our very own D&D games. These articles include plenty of homebrewed material, but we’ll be sure to point out when they’re stretching their creative muscles."

The last article was added on October 26th which, I believe, was more than a week ago. At this stage it's just embarrassing; every time I see that section it irks me a little, hell right now I'd settle for them just rewording that section (replacing "each week" with "periodically", "when the moons align and the dark calls to our blood" or, if you like accuracy, "when hell freezes over" might be more appropriate ).