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<blockquote data-quote="Alaxk Knight of Galt" data-source="post: 5344370" data-attributes="member: 4129">The Character Builder JailbreakThe current Character Builder has a major flaw in it:&nbsp; pay once and get everything.&nbsp; WotC tied a permanent application to a subscription based service.&nbsp; If you buy a single month subscription to DDi, you've just purchased, via the character builder, every single class, race, feat, paragon path, epic destiny, power, and magic item that has been created since 4E was released.&nbsp; WotC is insane to keep this model, but they may be forced into doing just that buy their customers.&nbsp; Dungeon and Dragon magazines have the same flaw.&nbsp; While they were print based, buying a subscription to the magazine would mean you got the next X number of magazines.&nbsp; Buying a one month subscription to DDi means you get the entire backlog of Dungeon and Dragon magazines along with the current issue.Now look at the compendium.&nbsp; Buying a single month of DDi gets you a single month of service.&nbsp; If you want ongoing access to it, you have to pay the monthly fee.&nbsp; This is a much better deal for WotC.&nbsp; Ongoing usage of the compendium is restricted to full subscribers.The solution is to make the Character Builder subscription based (like WoW, you'd need to log in before you had access to it), or web-based like the compendium.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alaxk Knight of Galt, post: 5344370, member: 4129"] [b]The Character Builder Jailbreak[/b] The current Character Builder has a major flaw in it: pay once and get everything. WotC tied a permanent application to a subscription based service. If you buy a single month subscription to DDi, you've just [U]purchased[/U], via the character builder, every single class, race, feat, paragon path, epic destiny, power, and magic item that has been created since 4E was released. WotC is insane to keep this model, but they may be forced into doing just that buy their customers. Dungeon and Dragon magazines have the same flaw. While they were print based, buying a subscription to the magazine would mean you got the next X number of magazines. Buying a one month subscription to DDi means you get the entire backlog of Dungeon and Dragon magazines along with the current issue. Now look at the compendium. Buying a single month of DDi gets you a single month of service. If you want ongoing access to it, you have to pay the monthly fee. This is a much better deal for WotC. Ongoing usage of the compendium is restricted to full subscribers. The solution is to make the Character Builder subscription based (like WoW, you'd need to log in before you had access to it), or web-based like the compendium. [/QUOTE]

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