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4 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2009 - 10:14PM
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He finally got it right at the end!
That is EXACTLY what the weekly insider should look like.
Of course, now its all over... The Irony.
*blink* What is right about it?
Other then polls that they appear to ignore in the past there is nothing about DI.
The only thing close to DI is information/advertisement of what will (might?) appear in up coming ezines. The ezines a completed component of the DDI intuitive (barring some complaints about lack of content and complied PDFs).
I am not sure what you expected that you considered this article right compared to the last few, however you clearly are entitled to your opinion.
Where is news about the other aplications? Perhaps a screen shot showing lighting working better. A report that integration of Visulizier with the CB has been getting closer to completion. Anything that indicates progress would be nice and for me planned articles to be released is not progress to be reported. Articles are expected.
I just not understand how you believe this is what "weekly insider should look like", when it is nothing I expected it should look like.
Plans are always subject to change.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2009 - 10:24PM
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Date Joined:
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Where are the polls and surveys he refers to?
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4 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2009 - 10:33PM
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Where are the polls and surveys he refers to?
The forum has popup polls, if you block popups like I do you will never see them.
Also the website from time to time has polls that you can vote on, I believe the main D&D page is the only place they occur.
Plans are always subject to change.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2009 - 11:47PM
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Aug 21, 2007
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Monks in May as a Playtest Class. Finally, the Monk is featured. I'm disappointed its not going to be in PHB 2. PHB 3. Hurm. So when is that going to be published? 2010?
I think Wizards has "jumped the shark" on the Core Books. The classes and races we had been accustomed to in the 3rd Edition core books should have been in the PHB1. Put all the wacky races (Dragonborn, Tieflings etc.,) in the PHB2 etc., and the new classes that weren't in the 3e core books. I think this was a poor decision on Wizards part to keep stringing us along with races and classes that were core in 3E (Gnomes, Half-Orcs, Monks, Sorcerors, Bards, Barbarians...) and seeding them in other 4e books.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2009 - 12:10AM
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Finally! Monks! Ive waited so long!
Now, I must count the days to May.....
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4 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2009 - 1:13AM
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You asked for feedback, here it is.
* I don't want a whole shelf of books I won't use very often. I have a huge pile of 2E books from before my recently-ended 10-year hiatus from D&D. I don't want to shlep around a ton of books either.
* I don't want a huge briefcase full of tiles either. I'd be happy to pay $5 for a high-rez map I can have printed at kinkos. Were I to own my own game shop, I'd be interested in buying laminated version of maps for LFR and Scales modules.
* I don't want to buy a box of randomized minis. I hear you're solving this issue, so I won't dwell on it too much. But I need 10 kobolds for my next module--how many booster packs would I have to buy to get them?
* I don't want to manage a bunch of update files and books with notes written in them. Electronic resources have infinitesimal costs to update, they should be.
* I don't want to manage a bunch of LFR adventure logs. I'd be happy to look at banner ads or Google ads to have a real RPGA Web site that lets me show my characters' history off to my friends. I'd even be interested in a standard Web 2.0 model: 1 character is free but up to 10 characters costs $5/month and was tied to my RPGA number.
* I like plotlines. Story is why I play D&D. I'd be much more interested in buying a pack of minis if they were the exact ones I needed for a certain LFR module. I'd pay the price of an MTG booster for RPGA legal power/item/creation cards that were only usable during a 6-month window that represented a plotline.
I agree so much with these bullets! I'm bying non-D&D miniatures, because I hate the idea of buing random miniatures. I don't want 20 books in my shelf, which I'm only going to use whenever I create a new character, and which will gradually be less complete and overview-like as more books are added (hurrah for the compendium and the builder).
Please press on with the other digital components we were promised: the visualizer and the gametable. I would pay much more for those than for more books.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2009 - 2:44AM
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"where we are" Lets see. NO info on the next tool to be worked on. NO info on the auto renew issue. Just more bones about new classes coming out in PH3. Another ad. How about some info on where you are going?  Bill does not get what these articles should be about at all. I'm glad its over because if they are not going to give any real info, it should not be written. Looks like WOTC is going back to keeping the customer base totally in the dark. Between lack of info on the prgress of the tools to be worked on and the lack of product description on the product page, looks like WOTC wants to kill DnD.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2009 - 3:03AM
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Why don't you say clearly if you're working or not in the rest of the DDI software? I am sure that if you were working on it, you could probably write weekly news about it, at least only to say, "the virtual gametable is going fine we are are now working on ..." or something like that.
I personally won't pay without having this promised programs, since I understand that my money is not supporting you to create them.
But maybe this is the real problem, you are scared that people cancel their suscription if you announce that you are not working in any of the programs anymore.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2009 - 3:17AM
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Why don't you say clearly if you're working or not in the rest of the DDI software? I am sure that if you were working on it, you could probably write weekly news about it, at least only to say, "the virtual gametable is going fine we are are now working on ..." or something like that.
I personally won't pay without having this promised programs, since I understand that my money is not supporting you to create them.
But maybe this is the real problem, you are scared that people cancel their suscription if you announce that you are not working in any of the programs anymore.
All I want is a yes or no answer on if they are still working on the other apps for DDI. Lack of info when they first launched 4th ed on DDI is what got them in this situation in the first place. You would think they would learn from that.
Thay are not getting my money until I know for sure that:
1. The auto renew issue is resolved.
2. They tell the customer base if they are going ahead with the other DDI apps.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2009 - 4:32AM
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Jun 24, 2007
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Well at least I no longer have to waste 5 minutes on Wed. mornings any longer. I am happy that they're going to be using their time to do other things but I have a hard time seeing that this will bring our tools (that we all seem to reallllly want) out any faster.
It's a shame that they're losing an opportunity to make an impact with the online community but with as much complaining as they got for it on a weekly basis (guilty as charged), I understand not wanting to waste the time to write it.
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