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<blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5370254" data-attributes="member: 75065">I'm not going to read four pages worth of thread, because I don't find the topic interesting enough.I do find your letter interesting however, as I'm sure WotC must at least to some degree. What I mean by that is, they must have weighed up this foreseeable negative backlash, from a substantial amount of customers, before they released this news. I guess whatever was on the other end of the scale outweighed it for them. What I find curious is they did not announce this with some other tool to soften the effect. I guess time was against them and they knew they had to update Dark Sun and Essentials, but they wanted to keep that exclusive to a Character Builder they could protect.I read another unhappy customer's complaints directed at WotC when the CB missed last months update and I was very critical of the 'whiney-blowing-steam-in-the-wrong-place', irrelevant nature of the post. I don't find your letter to be whiney in any degree. My reaction: those are your feelings and they seem valid. You express yourself well. I don't think you are way off base.Nevertheless, I do think this is a measure they may have seen as necessary. I do think they value customers like yourself. A lot. I do believe they will go to every effort to appease the masses currently heaving with fury as soon as possible. I'm sure they will want you back as a happy customer as soon as possible.To remain positive: You still have all that you need to keep playing for years and years on end with all those books you have aquired. In the end what makes a great game is good friends, limitless imagination and ... dice (okay, and a pencil).(and a few sheets of paper)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jbear, post: 5370254, member: 75065"] I'm not going to read four pages worth of thread, because I don't find the topic interesting enough. I do find your letter interesting however, as I'm sure WotC must at least to some degree. What I mean by that is, they must have weighed up this foreseeable negative backlash, from a substantial amount of customers, before they released this news. I guess whatever was on the other end of the scale outweighed it for them. What I find curious is they did not announce this with some other tool to soften the effect. I guess time was against them and they knew they had to update Dark Sun and Essentials, but they wanted to keep that exclusive to a Character Builder they could protect. I read another unhappy customer's complaints directed at WotC when the CB missed last months update and I was very critical of the 'whiney-blowing-steam-in-the-wrong-place', irrelevant nature of the post. I don't find your letter to be whiney in any degree. My reaction: those are your feelings and they seem valid. You express yourself well. I don't think you are way off base. Nevertheless, I do think this is a measure they may have seen as necessary. I do think they value customers like yourself. A lot. I do believe they will go to every effort to appease the masses currently heaving with fury as soon as possible. I'm sure they will want you back as a happy customer as soon as possible. To remain positive: You still have all that you need to keep playing for years and years on end with all those books you have aquired. In the end what makes a great game is good friends, limitless imagination and ... dice (okay, and a pencil). (and a few sheets of paper) [/QUOTE]

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