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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5766369" data-attributes="member: 1210"><p>[MENTION=56746]mudbunny[/MENTION], I hope you will mention this to WotC. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why this is, I don't know, but the "inferior replacement phenomenon" seems to come up again and again with DDI stuff. I mean, the MB and CB you can at least understand being a step to combat piracy, but this? It's <em>just inconvenient enough</em> to compile issues that it discourages subscribers, but <em>not inconvenient enough</em> to discourage pirates. What a weird, seemingly pointless choice. Especially since it doesn't take much of any work to combine them in Acrobat or whatever pseudoAcrobat you use.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure if Acrobat will do it so easily, but there are software programs (that are free) that will let you shift-click to select your files, combine them into one with a click and number the pages with another. Seriously, it would take maybe five minutes to double check that everything was in the desired order. Five minutes for one person. At the most. This is NOT a staff issue. This is a conscious decision, made for no reason that I can come up with or have heard, that makes a part of DDI inferior to what it was and less convenient for the user base.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>WotC has put a lot of effort into making sure the month's content is done by the end of the month. Five minutes of additional work would compile it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To be honest, I am far more prone to do that now than I was before, when I was a longterm subscriber for several years. </p><p></p><p>Every thing that DDI did better before than it does now is a huge black mark on it for me. Worse than the inconvenience is the sense I get that WotC feels it is okay to inconvenience me. It's almost like they would rather lose some customers and inconvenience the rest than spend five minutes per month compiling the mags.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5766369, member: 1210"] [MENTION=56746]mudbunny[/MENTION], I hope you will mention this to WotC. Why this is, I don't know, but the "inferior replacement phenomenon" seems to come up again and again with DDI stuff. I mean, the MB and CB you can at least understand being a step to combat piracy, but this? It's [i]just inconvenient enough[/i] to compile issues that it discourages subscribers, but [i]not inconvenient enough[/i] to discourage pirates. What a weird, seemingly pointless choice. Especially since it doesn't take much of any work to combine them in Acrobat or whatever pseudoAcrobat you use. I'm not sure if Acrobat will do it so easily, but there are software programs (that are free) that will let you shift-click to select your files, combine them into one with a click and number the pages with another. Seriously, it would take maybe five minutes to double check that everything was in the desired order. Five minutes for one person. At the most. This is NOT a staff issue. This is a conscious decision, made for no reason that I can come up with or have heard, that makes a part of DDI inferior to what it was and less convenient for the user base. WotC has put a lot of effort into making sure the month's content is done by the end of the month. Five minutes of additional work would compile it. To be honest, I am far more prone to do that now than I was before, when I was a longterm subscriber for several years. Every thing that DDI did better before than it does now is a huge black mark on it for me. Worse than the inconvenience is the sense I get that WotC feels it is okay to inconvenience me. It's almost like they would rather lose some customers and inconvenience the rest than spend five minutes per month compiling the mags. [/QUOTE]
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