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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5486366" data-attributes="member: 82106">Hmm, yeah, that isn't very cool. Never heard of them NOT giving someone a few bucks off at the very least if they complained. That seems like a first. Well, hopefully they get the message. Give 'em a kick in the butt when they don't give you what you feel like you should be getting. I know people have the idea that I'm just being an apologist for WotC, but really, it isn't like that at all in my mind. Honestly, while they've done some things that seemed stupid like releasing the OCB with insufficient (or no) beta testing, it has seemed to me overall that they're just doing what they can do and mostly it has been pretty good. Taking the last 3+ years in total they've released a lot of good material in the magazines. I wouldn't have paid $74 a year for JUST that, but then the CB and Compendium have added a lot of convenience to DMing. Compendium alone saves me hours and hours during adventure design and game prep. Having nice clean CB produced character sheets, also very convenient. Maybe I'm unique, I really don't run many pre-generated adventures and between MB, CB, and Compendium I find that DDI is worth the cost of a couple core books a year. I mean I've skipped several of the less interesting books like Psionic Power and still have access to their content, which is nice and saves me a few more bucks.Really, I think it is worth complaining when WotC screws something up, but in the grand scheme of things are their screw ups really that big a deal? It is like sending your steak back because there isn't quite enough salt on it. You're totally within your rights to do it, and I've complained to them (or maybe criticized is a better way to put it) when they did something I didn't like. I'm just not really anywhere near prepared to stop being able to look everything up in the Compendium or whip out a quick character sheet or monster. It seems like cutting one's foot off because it itches at this point. If things just go right on downhill, then yeah I'll stop giving them my money. Just isn't at that point. I really don't think it will get to that point either. Plenty of people have complained. I think they generally ARE pretty responsive to customers.</blockquote>

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