Are the WOTC forums borked?

Bagpuss · Jun 19, 2008

More extensive unplanned maintenance, things must be pretty bad.

Nifft · Jun 19, 2008

Bagpuss said:
More extensive unplanned maintenance, things must be pretty bad.

I posted once this morning and then was just searching for something when ... :\

Bleah, -- N

DarkGrifter · Jun 19, 2008

The boards are borked. Wanna know the reason & the reason d&di is a no show? GO LOOK AT WOTC JOB LISTINGS. No one is behind th dm screan.

Dykstrav · Jun 19, 2008

Zaukrie said:
I can't get to them today. It just reinforces my opinion that I should not trust WotC to provide me online tools that I have to pay for.

This is precisely why I'm not interested in D&D Insider. The front page of their website hasn't loaded correctly on any computer I've tried it on in months.

Anyone remember etools? How we were supposed to be getting this powerful application with world and dungeon mapping software, editable databases, all of that? And how we ended up with an application (after an incredible delay) that was somewhere between counterintuitive and frustrating?

What really sold me against DDI was the technical support for etools. It crashed my machine, so I restarted the computer. It crashed my machine, so I reinstalled it. It still crashed my machine. I called technical support. They basically told me to restart my computer and reinstall the software, and when that failed they literally told me that the problem must be my machine and to take it in for service, but feel free to call them back and let them know if I ever found out what the problem was so they could document it. When my computer-savvy brother got home that night, he had it up and running in something like two minutes.

What about DDO? DDO had the potential to energize the D&D community and tap new players, but they made a product that was too much like D&D for the MMORPG market and not enough like D&D for the tabletop RPG market.

I'll buy hardcover books and miniatures from Wizards of the Coast, but I can't foresee any possible way that I'd ever consider purchasing any sort of digital product from them ever again.

Bagpuss · Jun 19, 2008

DarkGrifter said:
GO LOOK AT WOTC JOB LISTINGS. No one is behind th dm screan.

You mean the fact they are still advertising for a Software Development Manager, a Senior Software Developers, a Software Developer, a User Interface Architect, and a Wed Designer?

To be fair the Senior Software Developer jobs say they are to support Magic The Gathering Online. DnDInsider was/is being developed out of house, although a while ago they did advertise for in house developers that post has gone.

Jack99 · Jun 19, 2008

Dykstrav said:
This is precisely why I'm not interested in D&D Insider. The front page of their website hasn't loaded correctly on any computer I've tried it on in months.

Weird, for me and my 7 players, their website works fine on any of the 20 or so computers we use to access it. Maybe it's you that are doing something wrong?

MarkB · Jun 19, 2008

It was working for about 20 minutes or so just now, but now it's b0rked again.

smootrk · Jun 19, 2008

nerfherder said:
Are those the same sneaky b@sterds granting you permission to publish their IP on your Star Frontiers website?

not my website?! but I do like and support the efforts there.

AllisterH · Jun 19, 2008

Here's where I think WOTC has to bite the bullet.

Look at WOTC.com Internet rating.

At a glance, 1680 doesnt sound impressive, but keep in mind, this is out of literally millions of websites.

Here's what I think. WOTC's webstaff is probably only as well financed/backed as Marvel.com (roughly the same rating) yet, wizards.com requires more interaction/downloads/upkeep than marvel.com

A big boss at hasbro or WOTC is going to have to say, "Yeah, we're going to have to a webstaff more akin to a MMORPG staff than what we have now".