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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 5412975" data-attributes="member: 115">They implied they had a daily model though, and they obviously set some sort of internal deadline.  Otherwise, what's the point of the calendar?  How would you even make it?  If the intent was always to focus on a monthly e-zine, then the whole concept of the calendar is detrimental.  I think we would both agree it was definitely a mistake. Yes, absolutely I'm saying that.  You're absolutely right, it's on there right at the top of the page.  You can ask Morrus or the other mods about how often Sticky threads get read here for a similar phenomenon.  It's hardly an unknown thing.But moreover, if they never intended the calendar to be binding, why bother having it in the first place?  I would like to assume that the people at WotC are not incompetent or inexperienced.  Therefore, I'm going to assume that they were based on internal deadlines, either official or self-imposed.I think this is the main point we differ on.  I find it disingenuous to post a calendar, imply stuff will be out on specific dates, and then say you're only guaranteed stuff at the end of the month, regardless of what they wrote on the website.What's frustrating to me, and likely a source of my ire and unwillingness to bend on this matter, is that this wasn't the case before.  The e-zines actually managed that daily schedule for a long while, with only the occasional expected hiccup (life/website/etc).  That's clearly not the case anymore.  I think the Executioner issue underscores that.I want to be very clear in that I (mostly) don't think it's deliberate.  I'm fully convinced that the problem that the e-zine part of DDI is critically understaffed.  Do I think that WotC, or at least the D&D side of things, is completely out of touch with the digital age?  Absolutely.  However, everything I've seen over the last year suggests the real problem is that there's minimal resources allocated to Dungeon and Dragon.Speak for yourself, I'm THIS <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />5<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> many!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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