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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8845760" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>So, no. You are not a software developer.</p><p></p><p>More than once I've worked on badly designed software that needed a complete rewrite to achieve company goals. Most non-IT people underestimate the effort that will be required, heck most IT people underestimate the effort.</p><p></p><p>We have no idea what happened, what is currently or why. My guess is that the dev team previously went to management, told them what needed to be done with a guess how much it would take to fix it and were not given the budget or time to actually fix it. </p><p></p><p>The fact that there have been no changes yet is no indication one way or another. If they need to make fundamental changes to the core, it takes time. They could make some cosmetic, easy fixes, but that's just taking time and resources away from what really needs to be done and doesn't address the real issues.</p><p></p><p>Maybe they're working on an entirely new infrastructure in a way that will not change the interface one iota, people tend to vastly underestimate how difficult that is to do. Maybe they're in total disarray and the entire thing is a giant hairy cluster ****. </p><p>My guess? If they were smart they told WOTC that they need to make significant expenditure to fix the existing technical debt and that it will have new core systems that run things behind the scenes. They're doing their best to build in customizable rule set instead of hard-coded rules implementation and so on while not breaking existing functionality. </p><p></p><p>All of that takes significant time and effort. <em>You</em> may not think modeling D&D rules is difficult, all I can say is that the exceptions, options and interactions means that I disagree.</p><p></p><p>I don't assume the worst of people. I don't assume everyone else is incompetent at their jobs or that they don't know what they're doing. I find that life is too short to assume the worst. </p><p></p><p>Time will tell but I don't think it's time to assume they are doing nothing. For all we know they're waiting on major revisions until they have a better idea on what's in store for the 2024 edition.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes it just takes 9 months to get a baby no matter how much you want it more quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8845760, member: 6801845"] So, no. You are not a software developer. More than once I've worked on badly designed software that needed a complete rewrite to achieve company goals. Most non-IT people underestimate the effort that will be required, heck most IT people underestimate the effort. We have no idea what happened, what is currently or why. My guess is that the dev team previously went to management, told them what needed to be done with a guess how much it would take to fix it and were not given the budget or time to actually fix it. The fact that there have been no changes yet is no indication one way or another. If they need to make fundamental changes to the core, it takes time. They could make some cosmetic, easy fixes, but that's just taking time and resources away from what really needs to be done and doesn't address the real issues. Maybe they're working on an entirely new infrastructure in a way that will not change the interface one iota, people tend to vastly underestimate how difficult that is to do. Maybe they're in total disarray and the entire thing is a giant hairy cluster ****. My guess? If they were smart they told WOTC that they need to make significant expenditure to fix the existing technical debt and that it will have new core systems that run things behind the scenes. They're doing their best to build in customizable rule set instead of hard-coded rules implementation and so on while not breaking existing functionality. All of that takes significant time and effort. [I]You[/I] may not think modeling D&D rules is difficult, all I can say is that the exceptions, options and interactions means that I disagree. I don't assume the worst of people. I don't assume everyone else is incompetent at their jobs or that they don't know what they're doing. I find that life is too short to assume the worst. Time will tell but I don't think it's time to assume they are doing nothing. For all we know they're waiting on major revisions until they have a better idea on what's in store for the 2024 edition. Sometimes it just takes 9 months to get a baby no matter how much you want it more quickly. [/QUOTE]
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