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<blockquote data-quote="Angellis_ater" data-source="post: 5370025" data-attributes="member: 37442">Ahem. Hi! *waves hand* Did you read my post? Perhaps you meant to take the quote from my post out-of-context to prove a general point - which is fair if you'd called that out.Now, in the post itself, that was used for two things:1. To prove that WotC has a less than stellar reputation for &quot;keeping their word&quot; on things.2. To show that a reason to feel uneasy about continuing to use a service can be determined by a chain of events.Allow me to illustrate. I tell you I'm gonna do something. A lot of times. And then I don't. So when I say &quot;I'm gonna do this&quot; - isn't my previous behavior a fair indicator of why you wouldn't trust me?Another point of illustration here (note, this is an example, albeit taken a little too the extreme to illustrate a point) - if I kick you in the face every day and one day I push you, and you flip and waste my ass - it's not that single push in itself which is the reason, it is the compilation of all the events that have come before. Taken out of context, killing someone for a single push, would seem ludicrous and most definately paint the &quot;killer&quot; as an insane ass. But in context, there is more to it than just a single push.So, please - take things in context. I've not been paying for 2 years for DDI because I wanted PDFs, the VTT (which is completely useless to me since I game in the physical space) or any of my cited examples. I've been paying because I got something very nice out of it and I have appreciated Dragon, Dungeon, the CB, the MM and the Compendium.But I do view this as a diminishment in usability, specifically for the future. The rules in the CB+the PHB are good even when WotC moves to 5th Edition. The online version? Not at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angellis_ater, post: 5370025, member: 37442"] Ahem. Hi! *waves hand* Did you read my post? Perhaps you meant to take the quote from my post out-of-context to prove a general point - which is fair if you'd called that out. Now, in the post itself, that was used for two things: 1. To prove that WotC has a less than stellar reputation for "keeping their word" on things. 2. To show that a reason to feel uneasy about continuing to use a service can be determined by a chain of events. Allow me to illustrate. I tell you I'm gonna do something. A lot of times. And then I don't. So when I say "I'm gonna do this" - isn't my previous behavior a fair indicator of why you wouldn't trust me? Another point of illustration here (note, this is an example, albeit taken a little too the extreme to illustrate a point) - if I kick you in the face every day and one day I push you, and you flip and waste my ass - it's not that single push in itself which is the reason, it is the compilation of all the events that have come before. Taken out of context, killing someone for a single push, would seem ludicrous and most definately paint the "killer" as an insane ass. But in context, there is more to it than just a single push. So, please - take things in context. I've not been paying for 2 years for DDI because I wanted PDFs, the VTT (which is completely useless to me since I game in the physical space) or any of my cited examples. I've been paying because I got something very nice out of it and I have appreciated Dragon, Dungeon, the CB, the MM and the Compendium. But I do view this as a diminishment in usability, specifically for the future. The rules in the CB+the PHB are good even when WotC moves to 5th Edition. The online version? Not at all. [/QUOTE]

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