Just Cancelled DDI

[Quickleaf]

Welcome to the club!

Welcome to the un-sub club

 

[Jester David]

The magazine does need some love.
It's really in an awkward place right now, with shrinking page counts and an inability to release crunch. With just under two years left before 5e is released the magazines CANNOT maintain like this. People will leave and DDI will be a huge money hole in a department that is already likely hemmoraging money. The magazines are going to die and that cannot be allowed to happen.

WotC really needs to work faster and do what they're planning to do with DDI and the magazines sooner rather than later. They need to drop the price as few people are really paying for the tools) and do articles focused on ALL of D&D.
Release back issues. Publish more fiction and cartoons. Focus on advice articles. More optional rules for 4e. Really stretch the system with more Unearthed Arcana content.
How about reprinting some if the side systems from 2e or 3e that are more neutral? Like honor or victory points.

 

[blalien]

D&D always goes into decline the year before a new edition. If you're not playing 4e and aren't enjoying the articles, you really don't need a DDI subscription right now. You might want it again when D&D Next releases, though.

 

[possum]

I paid for one month, downloaded all the content that I thought was interesting, then canceled my subscription. I thought that's what everyone did. Why pay every month for a trickle of new content, when you can just pay once for all the content that's already there?

Honestly, I'm planning on doing that within their last few months. I just haven't seen any reason at all for justifying a subscription once the Character Builder went online only. Ironically, I was going to subscribe when the Dark Sun and Essentials stuff would have went live for the original Builder, but WOTC just ticked me off majorly with that decision.

Also, I do find it slightly funny that with the prefix, this thread's titled "WOTC Cancelling DDI."

 

[Obryn]

I paid for one month, downloaded all the content that I thought was interesting, then canceled my subscription. I thought that's what everyone did. Why pay every month for a trickle of new content, when you can just pay once for all the content that's already there?

Because the Live tools are probably 90% of what I'm subbing for nowadays. Like I said, I think the "loaded" offline CB is superior to the online offerings, but the online Adventure Tools has a full database of monsters for me to export to Masterplan. And the Compendium is just awesome - I rely on it fairly regularly.

And when Dragon/Dungeon were getting good content on a regular basis (which was even as late as last winter) I wanted to see the new articles as they came out, rather than waiting for them.

If all you care about is Dragon and Dungeon in late 2012, your way makes sense.

-O

 

[Tony Vargas]

Well, I had been on board since the beginning. But, I just cancelled. I DM pretty much monthly, but am not currently playing. My son has not played in some time. Dragon and Dungeon are shells of their former selves. 4E support and products are non-existent from WotC, completely non-existent.

Can anyone think of any reason to stay on board at this point, if you aren't a player using the character tools? I cannot.

IMHO, DDI hasn't been worth it since they went to the on-line tools. The off-line tools weren't great, but they mostly worked, and it was worth it to keep them updated.

4e is basically over at this point, new products will be "edition-neutral,' until 5e. You don't need to subscribe to playtest 5e, which is about the only thing left going on at this point.

 

[RangerWickett]

Maybe they need to release 5e adventures in Dungeon. Like, you'll get a free adventure via the playtest every few months, but Dungeon could have a new one monthly, using whatever version of the rules is most recent.

Make it hectic and chaotic. That's fun.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

I'm still subscribing despite having both an offline Character Builder and now an offline Compendium. I still like the Monster Builder most of the time but I suspect someone far more computer literate than me will scrape one together in short order... and then I will get that too.

My sincere hope is that, once 4E ends, WotC will sell downloable versions of all three of their online tools. Although I do have the illegal versions, I would much prefer to have legitimate copies (much like how I have PDFs of all the 4E products and used to actually pay for them when they were available from RPGNow!).

The paucity of content has been an issue for a long, long time and now the website is filled with lots of articles about Next which do not interest me. That's fine; most of the customer base isn't interested in what I like, either. However, I'm also a long-term FR fan so I plan to maintain my subscription ad infinitum simply for the FR lore... even if I am sticking with 4E.

Oh, and I do like grabbing the art and maps when they're released. There is always something useful to be found there.

 

[Zaukrie]

My kid wants it back.....not sure what I will do yet. It is not a ton of money....

 

[Jack99]

I still have my subscription. I don't play 4e anymore, and I don't think we will ever return, and I rarely ever read the articles. It's a bit like my ENworld sub. I am not sure why I still have it. Guess I am just too lazy to bother cancelling it. /shrug. Maybe they will do something that will make me not cancel it next oktober, when it is time to renew it again.