No Character Builder Update

[Mad Hamish]

This is kind of a whack analogy because I'm not being failed to be entertained. That's happened before with D&DI, no doubt. But, I didn't request my money back. How can I say something failed to entertain me, if that something isn't even there to begin with?

Dragon, Dungeon etc are there.
There was no guarantee of a monthly character builder update.

What about if you go to the movie and half the movie is missing? Are you entitled to a refund then?

"But! But! They never said they had to give you the WHOLE movie! There's no contractual obligation!"

I don't recall people getting refunds for Kill Bill part 1...

 

[renau1g]

Because Kill Bill Vol. 1 was awesome! Even if it was half a movie

Funny story when LOTR came out, a buddy of mine came with a group of us to see it, he wasn't big into fantasy and had barely even heard of it. So the end of the Fellowship comes and he turns to me and asks "Is that it? Where's the ending..." to which I explained it's a trilogy, blah blah blah....

 

[metaDM]

Does anyone else think it's fishy that there is no DDI update right when the new Essentials class book comes out? I stopped buying any player power books a long time ago. What's the point of buying them when you have DDI?

This seems like a convenient way to drive book sales by forcing people to go out and buy a copy of Heroes of the Fallen Lands. Plus some pencil pusher gets to point at graph in a slide deck and show how successful Essentials has been.

 

[hafrogman]

Does anyone else think it's fishy that there is no DDI update right when the new Essentials class book comes out? I stopped buying any player power books a long time ago. What's the point of buying them when you have DDI?

This seems like a convenient way to drive book sales by forcing people to go out and buy a copy of Heroes of the Fallen Lands. Plus some pencil pusher gets to point at graph in a slide deck and show how successful Essentials has been.

I seriously doubt any such subterfuge, and if there was, it's VERY misguided. I purchased Psionic Power and the Dark Sun Setting as soon as they were available. Since I do build my characters using the character builder (Yes, paper and pencil are still available. No, they are not actually useful ways to render 4E characters), I have been entirely unable to use them as resources.

In future, I will be far more cautious and delayed in purchasing D&D products. I own zero essentials books, because I know I can't use them. The effect is exactly the opposite of your hypothesis.

 

[Jack99]

Does anyone else think it's fishy that there is no DDI update right when the new Essentials class book comes out? I stopped buying any player power books a long time ago. What's the point of buying them when you have DDI?

This seems like a convenient way to drive book sales by forcing people to go out and buy a copy of Heroes of the Fallen Lands. Plus some pencil pusher gets to point at graph in a slide deck and show how successful Essentials has been.

Nope, it's just you, I think.

 

[MrMyth]

Does anyone else think it's fishy that there is no DDI update right when the new Essentials class book comes out? I stopped buying any player power books a long time ago. What's the point of buying them when you have DDI?

This seems like a convenient way to drive book sales by forcing people to go out and buy a copy of Heroes of the Fallen Lands. Plus some pencil pusher gets to point at graph in a slide deck and show how successful Essentials has been.

The Essentials update isn't late, though. The Dark Sun update got pushed back. The normal Essentials update wouldn't have hit until October anyway - they tried to incorporate it as part of the Dark Sun update when they first delayed that, then realized they couldn't do so.

So... yeah, not seeing any real truth to this theory of yours, sorry.

 

[metaDM]

Oh jeez. I thought it came out last month with all I've heard about it. Taking off my tin foil hat but I'm keeping it close by.

 

[vagabundo]

Oh jeez. I thought it came out last month with all I've heard about it. Taking off my tin foil hat but I'm keeping it close by.

DONT TAKE IT OFF!!!

You'll be DOMINATED by WotC's enchanters and they will make you burn all your previous books...

 

[iowyn]

Well, I don't Really believe that WOTC is delaying release of updates for book purchases... but.. it ironcially Does line up with shipments arriving to the other locations around the world as they aren't going out via space shuttle.
This could also explain the lack of 'excuse' and why the update doesn't appear on the October content either.

Just sayin - not complain'

 

[Infiniti2000]

...as they aren't going out via space shuttle.

Nothing's going out via space shuttle anymore.