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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4797872" data-attributes="member: 8158">WotC hikes prices, and folks are stoked, excited, thankful, and pleasantly surprised. Some folks thinks it indicates a sign of DDI's phenomenal success or failure. Given the dearth of negative reactions here, it's plain to see it's simply because they can.The addition of PH3 previews doesn't seem like it's the kind of extra feature that represents an increased investment of resources. Indeed, the previews are just going to serve as the de facto centerpiece article that they'd have to come up with monthly anyway, so it's not "extra" at all. Thus, it feels like it's just "let's see if we can get away with charging more without really offering more". What makes this a bitter pill for me is that I'm still waiting to see the website made over to look like the major asset it's supposed to be. Anyone else remember <a href="http://www.dragonavenue.com/dnd/post/wizards_of_the_coast_internet_suck/" target="_blank">Michael's Sigler's review of the DDI website</a> from about a year ago? And very little has changed. Still still lots of Web Design 101 technical and aestetic gaffes, such as incongruent elements using ugly and dingy colors (who out there loves the color of corroded metal?), features that are only identified by little lines of text crammed in different areas, and it's still hard to use the archive and search features. WotC houses a lot of great talent, so it's really a shame they can't together and give their portal a facelift.Matter of fact, maybe you guys can help me out. I just went to the archives yesterday, and noticed that for 2009, they only go as far back as 04/27. You can look 2008 and before, but nothing from January throughout most of April. Or maybe I missed something?I used the monster builder for the first time this weekend. I was surprised to find there was no way to save the output permanently. I guess I have to use the printable view, and then copy and paste into a Word file or something?And this month's Dragon Mag was entirely fluff outside of the monk preview. It's padded pretty noticably with light fare such as DM advice design & development and ruminations.I recall that before DDI was launched folks thought paying the subscription price of a typical MMO was reasonable. This was back when we thought the Virtual Tabletop was going to be included as a feature. Has the cancellation of that feature been made official?Concerns aside, I'm delighted to see the cover features both minotaurs and gith. That's a big boo-yah for me.</blockquote>

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