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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkthorne" data-source="post: 5379843" data-attributes="member: 60783">Hitting the F5 key FAR too often cause this "new & improved, FASTER program" freezes far too often. What's with the microtext anyways? I can read some serously small handwriting, but that is rediculous. Would be better if it had some zoom effect. I've imported 1 character with some problems. I tried creating different characters but got literally lost of my original design idea of where I was going due to the lag time for it to finishing "processing" which is the new word for this program is freezing again. I DO have a partial build done, but silly me tried doing it level by level.... again too damn long, never finished it.Ok next day, figure it would be better and it still is choking. What does Wizards consider to be BETA testing seriously? How does their definition of what BETA testing differ THAT much from what their customers expect? What benchmarks did they use/put in place to determine each aspect of of the new builder was up to snuff? What restricted parameters did they expect their paying customers run their games? I mean who's the one that thought "Yeah, this is only a tool to print out a character sheet, and no there's no chance anyone may level up midway through a game" Wait, there's more, whoever uses our program will always have internet and a way to connect whenever and whereever they may be playing. Ok, yup I can print the next level up version IF I think I am close, but why the heck do I want to waste that much ink? And if I die, I'm basically screwed for the remainder of session and might as well go home if I am not playing a low level guy. 4E is so updated w/ eratta and the amount of cross referencing between the splat books is too extensive to do in a timely fashion, that is what the character builder is to do to make faster, this does not accomplish that in layout design or functionality. There are more issues than just this, but I haven't the time, nor desire to point out the obvious flaws WOTC "tested" for. I was a yearly subscriber, but just shut off my auto-renew, because WOTC can't straightforward/realistic on what they can deliver. Ideally WOTC should give a timeline (not one this specific date) when they believe (I'm being generous here) certain problems will be fixed. They should also give a timeline when adjustments/improvements will be made (as in what order of priority). Going forward they seriously need to raise the bar for their BETA testing, not just inhouse testing tapped directly into their servers. Hold back products that simply aren't ready and be wait for it......HONEST to your customers. Don't make statements "inferring" you are doing an update to an existing tool when you have no plans to do so. I would much rather wait for something useful (I'm not saying awesome or outstanding) as opposed to receiving something that is still listed on their website as "Create and edit 4th Edition characters with ease" when all my adjectives for this program is less than positive. As a customer I would much rather you be honest with me, then blowing smoke and hype about how awesome something is and on release you deliver the opposite.  I get and understand speedbumps. This is not a speedbump, it's a sinkhole</blockquote>

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