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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaukrie" data-source="post: 3891066" data-attributes="member: 2057">My thoughts, for what they are worth:Content:Too intermittent in coming out. One of the great things about the mags was calling home and asking the wife if they were there yet. It was the fulfillment of the anticipation that was fun to some degree. When you have no idea when/how often articles will come out, that is lost.Too little. There just didn't seem to be that much content.Not good enough. Some of it is just rebranded web enhancements that we used to receive for free, not as part of Dragon or Dungeon. The Devil article was wooooooefully lacking roleplaying information and was mostly just long stat blocks. Boring. The delve maps in Dungeon were at 1 inch = 10 feet. What the heck is that? They were rotated. They didn't indicate terrain or contents or creature locations. They were utterly useless. I couldn't be more frustrated and annoyed with this than I am.Few if any links to other sources of information, despite the fact this on line.Marketing (this is all MBA 101 stuff):Wow, they could not have underwhelmed me more with the job they did living up to the hype. This is a first impression, and it is not leaving a good taste in most of our mouths.See the comment on timing of articles and expectation management. Missed the timelines on the compliations. This makes us all think about all the other technology promises they have failed to deliver on, bad, bad stuff from a marketing perspective.They needed to handle the announcement with Paizo, much, much better at the cancellation time. They vastly underestimated the impact of this announcement.Quit promising things will be better in the future. Fix something, anything, and keep it fixed. Maybe it is links to better maps, maybe it is having the ToC accurate and linked well, but do something well and point it out.Layout/Other:Zipped pdf files, really?Delve not linked back to original description - what is the point of on line content if you don't actually use the technology?I'll be money that the pdfs don't use any of the available pdf technology, like layers and other things - they'll just be electronic copies of what would have been hard copies.Links were often not accurate or not available on the main pages, even when the articles were available. Seriously, this has been a problem for several years - fix it already.The comment that they are busy with other stuff - I get that, I really get that. But if DDI are going to be part of your core business now, then hire some staff to support it on a full time basis, don't make it someone's night job.Mapmaker indicated he'd supply an unlabeled map for the map of mystery (I think it was that map). I bet he's done that already. Where is it?I could go on and on, but that's probably enough for today.</blockquote>

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