e-Tools Negotiation Update

[TheAndy tm]

I can't say much right now, but we have finished our e-Tools negotiations and will make an official announcement very soon. We're down to just waiting for the mail.

 

[gariig]

You are such a tease. At least you aren't on the East Coast.

 

[Ranger REG]

You gotta stop using vague measurement of time like "very soon." For most of us, it gets on our nerve, especially when we thought we were going to hear from Anthony Valterra ... < air quote > "very soon."

 

[Hardhead]

Yes! I don't know anything more than I did! But I'm still excited!

 

[Hardhead]

The following went out over the PCGen mailing list about the same time Andy posted:

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Code Monkey Publishing and Wizards of the coast is pleased to announce that we have finished our negotiations and are only waiting on the mail system to get the paperwork shipped back and forth (with the all important sigantures!).

We can't tell you the details yet, expect those on Wednesday though, but everyone should be happy about what's to come.

As has been teased before, it does concern e-Tools and PCGen, so I'll just re-iterate that tease.
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Will PCGen become "E-tools 2.0?" That's my (totally unsubstantiated) theory.

 

[jdavis]

any more patiently waiting for news and my head will explode.

 

[Ranger REG]

* looks at jdavis' avatar *

At least when your head explodes, you get fries with that. Of course, gray matter would not be a suitable condiment.

 

[Leopold]

e-tools to pcgen importer and exporter and vice versa is what i am guessing.

I honestly have no friggin clue but that sounds like something that could work. Don't quote me on that, it's all just a matter of guessing now...

 

[Knightcrawler]

BAD MONKEY!!!

No teasing the public. Just drop bannana peels and let them slip.

 

[Hollywood]

Will PCGen become "E-tools 2.0?" That's my (totally unsubstantiated) theory.

Let's hope not, otherwise it just shows that WotC is shooting from the hip again without any thoughts whatsoever.

Frankly when dealing with software, unless you've worked and seen their work or have high recommedations from a reliable and KNOWLEGABLE source, you should ALWAYS get an independent 3rd party source to verify the abilities of the company you are dealing with.

And considering the fiasco that was E-tools, any 2.0 version by someone else needs to go through the entire software engineering cycle of which "marketing negotiations" aren't part of it. A solid, and accomplishable feature set must be specified, an architecture document must be produced and signed off on, design documentation and models must be produced, proposed design must be verified to be valid, development goals and project plan must be produced and adhered to, etc.