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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Ernie" data-source="post: 5344309" data-attributes="member: 58517">See, while I understand your reaction should it actually come to pass, I simply cannot see how you (or anybody else with this reaction) can get from &quot;new web-based tools system&quot; to &quot;Oh noes, they're gonna replace the CB with online-only tools!!!!&quot;. There is literally nothing in the announcement that indicates this, unless you count the absence of DS and Essentials as proof. And while that is an arguable concern, there are other explanations provided for the reasons thereof that have been mentioned before.Isn't it much more reasonable to assume that they are making new tools available for us, instead of trying to copy functionality they already have to an online application, for the dubious purpose of fighting piracy or forcing us poor players to stop paying for updates only once every four months for the CB? While the latter would provide some revenue, it would piss off way too many of their customers, which they are well aware of; the former would give them a reasonable explanation for upping the per-month price a bit. This will of course still people off - it is change, after all, and worse, it's change that costs MONEY - but if the tools are high quality and useful, something we've seen they can pull off with the CB and the MB, they will be in a minority.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Ernie, post: 5344309, member: 58517"] See, while I understand your reaction should it actually come to pass, I simply cannot see how you (or anybody else with this reaction) can get from "new web-based tools system" to "Oh noes, they're gonna replace the CB with online-only tools!!!!". There is literally nothing in the announcement that indicates this, unless you count the absence of DS and Essentials as proof. And while that is an arguable concern, there are other explanations provided for the reasons thereof that have been mentioned before. Isn't it much more reasonable to assume that they are making [i]new[/i] tools available for us, instead of trying to copy functionality they already have to an online application, for the dubious purpose of fighting piracy or forcing us poor players to stop paying for updates only once every four months for the CB? While the latter would provide some revenue, it would piss off way too many of their customers, which they are well aware of; the former would give them a reasonable explanation for upping the per-month price a bit. This will of course still people off - it is change, after all, and worse, it's change that costs MONEY - but if the tools are high quality and useful, something we've seen they can pull off with the CB and the MB, they will be in a minority. [/QUOTE]

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