DDI September/October Update info

[Mirtek]

What is a WotC broadcast and why would I want to receive one daily?

 

[Scribble]

Having read through this thread - I figured that I should hopefully bring a little ray of sunshine to many who are displaying a fear for their beloved CB.

Make a new human and you will see that there is a change to the creation process. I want others to see it and judge for themselves but I feel that it shows that Wizards is not going to be abandoning the CB for a web-based version.

cheers.

Can you highlight the relevant change for those of us who aren't really experts on the CB?

 

[mudbunny]

What is a WotC broadcast and why would I want to receive one daily?

If you are a member of the DDI group on the WotC community site (note, you can only become a member if you are a DDI subscriber), they can send out announcements (Broadcasts) to all of the members of the group. There are a couple of settings in people's WotC Community profiles that they could have toggled that could block them from receiving said announcements via email.

This is important as I am trying to get WotC to use this feature to keep people up-to-date on delays, important news, etc.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Can you highlight the relevant change for those of us who aren't really experts on the CB?

If you choose human an option appears to choose the human racial power. There is only one (at least without the Essentials stuff) but it has to be selected before one can continue. In the pre-update version the sole human racial power (chhose an extra at will) was automaticaly selected.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Sounds like they've done a lot of the ground work in CB in prep for an Essentials update. That will be good.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I like the updates to the Compendium for the most part; specifically it seems to run a little more smoothly when it returns large numbers of results. There are a few minor things I'm not fond of. The big one is how it always switches to the category with the most results, even when I've selected a specific category.

 

[avin]

Having read through this thread - I figured that I should hopefully bring a little ray of sunshine to many who are displaying a fear for their beloved CB.

Make a new human and you will see that there is a change to the creation process. I want others to see it and judge for themselves but I feel that it shows that Wizards is not going to be abandoning the CB for a web-based version.

Hmmmm... I've seen nothing new, granted that I've been using CB just for checking my players sheets so I won't be noticing nothing new anyway...

COuld you say what is?

 

[Zaran]

FWIW, if people have not received the broadcast that was sent out around 2;20 PM (EST) today, I have created a group here (Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible) that will eventually have info that will help people in ensuring that their WotC community settings are properly set up.

I didn't get the broadcast and all my Community settings are default and my DDI account is set to recieve emails as well. So unless DDI is upset that I cancelled my auto-renewal I should have gotten the notification. My subscription isn't over until November.

 

[Scribble]

I didn't get the broadcast and all my Community settings are default and my DDI account is set to recieve emails as well. So unless DDI is upset that I cancelled my auto-renewal I should have gotten the notification. My subscription isn't over until November.

Did you check your spam folder? Maybe your email blocked it as spam?

 

[renau1g]

Having read through this thread - I figured that I should hopefully bring a little ray of sunshine to many who are displaying a fear for their beloved CB.

Make a new human and you will see that there is a change to the creation process. I want others to see it and judge for themselves but I feel that it shows that Wizards is not going to be abandoning the CB for a web-based version.

cheers.

Wow....so they could have squelched the rumor of no future offline CB with 5 seconds (assuming that is indeed the case, based on the Human having a racial option now), but instead chose to allow rumours to run rampant and have many (myself included) cancel their auto-renewal because of the lack of info. Again, it'd take 5 seconds to Trevor (or someone) to say yea or nay for future support of offline CB, but instead they've chosen to not post any info and then have rumours take hold. Another excellent job Wotc... damn...