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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redbeardin84" data-source="post: 4749225" data-attributes="member: 54625">Wanting to protect the profits and the brand, I can understand.  This answer confuses me and upsets me more than any pother part of the whole situation.In 3rd edition, we were teased with E-Tools from day 1.  By the time the gaming community made what was released workable, it became time to reset editions.Now I'm a big fan of the new edtion.  Old editions have taken a backseat in my circle.Again however, at launch we were teased with never before available online utilities in the new edition.  I grant that with a WORKING Character generator that needn't be user modified to include crunch, they have on an academic level made the hurdle in comparison to previous company history.   But they also pitched E-books.  And they delivered on so little of what was pitched so far.For this leader to publicly say he could not think of anything he would change, and there can't fairly be any faults assigned given that the world is expanding and becoming more sophisticated than WotC anticipated is either alarming or disingenuous.  For 3E, 3.5, and 4th ed WotC has been over-promising e-solutions for its customers, and under-delivering.   If that is not something one would at least acknowledge when asked d to be retrospective on the matter, I cannot think I would take much solace in anything else he has to say.  Especially concerning Promisies of finding other e-distribution methods.And to flat out state that a universally available format is not a e-distribution method that they will consider (PDF), one begins to wonder about the ease of use and compatibility of any future E-distribution formats.   Cars use tires because they have worked for decades.  Re-inventing the wheel?  Don't they advise against that in "CEO 101"?</blockquote>

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