New Character Builder from WotC!
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renau1g
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No...sorry mudbunny...based on past experience I think you should grab a few beers and get ready for a frustrating day. Sadly, an official announcement would've helped I think, but in that absence I think most people are expecting right at 9am PST...
Prestidigitalis
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Well, I was going to ask what time today it was expected, as I did not sift through all 27 pages of this thread to find the answer. But thanks for the info.
I wonder what happens when 20 million* subscribers suddenly log on all at once...
* For purely speculative values of 20 million
Probably less than if you had said between 10am and 12pm PST
Just for that. I am going to make sure that your tubes to the CB are all plugged.
grunt
Good thing I ate mexican last night.
Scribble
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I felt a great disturbance in the nerdrage, as if millions of nerds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
renau1g
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Oh man...$20 million @ $10/month... wow... $200M/month...they'd be dancing in the streets for those numbers I'm guessing... Hasbro would be pushing D&D on mainstream tv as well.
*For purely speculative fun...
Prestidigitalis
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Oh man...$20 million @ $10/month... wow... $200M/month...they'd be dancing in the streets for those numbers I'm guessing... Hasbro would be pushing D&D on mainstream tv as well.
*For purely speculative fun...
My purely speculative 10% of that money better be deposited in my account promptly, too.
(I have no idea how many DDI subscribers there really are. That's why I said 20 million -- an absurd number that no one could take seriously. Just in case someone missed the point -- not you renau1g, I know you got it.)
WalterKovacs
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You don't have to. Unsubscribe until it's "finished", what exactly finished means when by it's very nature it is constantly being updated and patched, if only in terms of content (but from experience with the original CB, that isn't the case).
Most players aren't "expected" to pay ... they are willing to pay because given the choice of unfinished software or no software and more waiting, they'd prefer something that does MOST of what they want, to nothing at all. The core functionality (can you create a character using the current rules, have it make some of the more annoying calculations, and be able to print it out as a usuable character sheet?) is there ... It is merely missing stuff that is down on the priorities list ... way below the "release it on time this month" priority.
Prestidigitalis
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I'm envisioning like a computer with a big red button with tape over it that says "don't press this" or something as the team irons out the final kinks in the system before it goes live...
How'd you like to be the dude pressing the launch CB button?
Worst nightmare territory. I'm sweating enough over my latest, soon-to-be-released-to-the-customer iPhone app. There can never be enough testing to eliminate the jitters, and throw in some last minute "oh and can you just do X" changes...
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