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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5428718" data-attributes="member: 82106">I don't know Aegeri, I get your frustration level. OTOH there's another end to this telescope (yes, a very old reference but this crowd will easily get it...). My monster builder works fine (maybe luckily my DDI ran out 2 days before the last update, so I don't know what went on with the last update there). Same with offline CB, it is still working fine. Even with the last offline CB update it was going fine. As for Dragon and Dungeon, I've found there are a pretty decent number of articles that I can get something out of. At least I read them and get ideas or just some entertainment. I'd pay for DDI for the Compendium and CB alone. They are both incredible time savers and I got DDI before MB even existed (but it is certainly way useful and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it online).I have 25 really nice 4e books, all of which I'm happy with. Some are better than others, but they are all well written and most of the material is very usable and sensible. The game system itself is the same as ever and as good as the day I bought into it. Essentials is fine. I have only really looked at it enough to know what it is about and I doubt anyone will suddenly want an Essentials character tomorrow, but if they do great. Even if I had some philosophical problems with it I can just ignore it and if players want it, well good for them they can play whatever they want as long as it is balanced and works, which Essentials does.So basically I figure I have the key tools from WotC that I need to just keep on playing for as long as it holds my fancy to play 4e. It could be 10 years and if the company closed its doors tomorrow it would be sad, but I'd have no problem just going on playing. I can still play 2e and TSR is cold in its grave. Heck, I can still buy every 2e book ever printed for cheap money if I wanted to. I'm pretty certain that will be true for 4e probably as long as I want to keep gaming. Overall whatever this tempest in a teacup is over what WotC is doing with 4e it seems quite remote and barely important to me. I'll probably keep paying for DDI for as long as it has some usable tools and I hope and expect they will get better, but I don't really NEED DDI to play and I don't even really need WotC to play. 4e makes me happy, WotC's troubles and foibles are far off remote things. Interesting to read about but not important to my actual gaming.</blockquote>

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