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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 4754400" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>Except some people are subscribing to the DDI before their release on the assumption that they'll be out eventually in order to lock into the current pricing scheme. In fact I seem to remember this being a selling point for longer subscriptions along the lines of 'Buy now and lock in this low low price long term so you'll save money if the price goes up as more features are rolled out.'</p><p></p><p>The longer WotC doesn't say anything about the status of the various bits of vaporware for the DDI, they're still locking in people for up to a year of subscription payments by the implication that by paying for that subscription they'll save money in the event that vaporware actually gets released at which point the subscription prices would presumably get raised.</p><p></p><p>They might have completely stopped development on the VTT, Visualizer, and Dungeon Builder, but so long as they don't make any announcement, they stand to benefit financially based on earlier promises, even if they never get realized. Based on that alone, they really do owe it to people to state definatively if any of those projects are even still in development. They don't have to provide estimates for release, but just an admission if they have or have not cancelled them. And it needs to be addressed in public, by the people in charge of the DDI, not secondhand by volunteers who might have heard something by someone inside WotC who isn't remotely part of those projects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 4754400, member: 11697"] Except some people are subscribing to the DDI before their release on the assumption that they'll be out eventually in order to lock into the current pricing scheme. In fact I seem to remember this being a selling point for longer subscriptions along the lines of 'Buy now and lock in this low low price long term so you'll save money if the price goes up as more features are rolled out.' The longer WotC doesn't say anything about the status of the various bits of vaporware for the DDI, they're still locking in people for up to a year of subscription payments by the implication that by paying for that subscription they'll save money in the event that vaporware actually gets released at which point the subscription prices would presumably get raised. They might have completely stopped development on the VTT, Visualizer, and Dungeon Builder, but so long as they don't make any announcement, they stand to benefit financially based on earlier promises, even if they never get realized. Based on that alone, they really do owe it to people to state definatively if any of those projects are even still in development. They don't have to provide estimates for release, but just an admission if they have or have not cancelled them. And it needs to be addressed in public, by the people in charge of the DDI, not secondhand by volunteers who might have heard something by someone inside WotC who isn't remotely part of those projects. [/QUOTE]
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