New D&D Website

[tylerthehobo]

Interesting: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - New to DnD
With videos hosted on youtube.

Oooo! Do the videos include those commercials from the 80s?!?

Seriously, I think the flow of the site and organization is fantastic. Well done!

-Tyler the Hobo
Tyler is Gaming...

 

[Dire Bare]

The maturity level of some of the people participating in this thread is really disturbing.

It's like there's a contingent of posters who have nothing positive to say about WotC, no matter what WotC does, and feels obligated to say negative things whenever the opportunity presents itself. It's shameful behavior.

For a long time I've told myself that I never want to be involved in the game industry because a significant chunk of the people I'd be catering to simply cannot be bothered to behave appropriately. I don't want such people as my fans, even if they're on my good side and hating on the competition. They are overly entitled and ceaselessly vitriolic, and deserve far less than this rather generous industry provides to them.

Threads like this reinforce that conviction.

The worst part is that some of these people are part of the game industry.

Eh, edited out most of my post. I'll just leave it at, "I agree."

 

[Shemeska]

Did they hire that guy who was around here claiming he could make a better website like.. a year ago? Cause the new websites looks almost exactly like one of those mock-up ones he did.

I'd be surprised if they had the manpower in-house for the website redesign, given the people on staff for the DDI currently. Most likely they contracted the project out to someone external (which is what they did with the forum revamp). I'm sure if it was a webdesign studio somewhere, a search will find someone claiming credit on their company page for the work.

And if indeed it was somebody claiming a year ago that they could do better, they certainly win some awesome points in my book for having done a pretty nice job (admittedly I don't like how WotC is presenting certain things, but that's them, not the web designer's decision).

 

[Jack99]

I'd be surprised if they had the manpower in-house for the website redesign, given the people on staff for the DDI currently. Most likely they contracted the project out to someone external (which is what they did with the forum revamp). I'm sure if it was a webdesign studio somewhere, a search will find someone claiming credit on their company page for the work.

It was mentioned on the front page when it went live. It is indeed a (afaik) fairly known webdesign studio/system that has been used.

 

[garyh]

I love that they're finally posting high-res, widescreen wallpaper with minimal logo-age cluttering up the art. I've been pining for these since seeing the first 4e core set. I'm a happy camper on that front, being a wallpaper fanatic.

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Dungeon Master's Guide 2)

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

I'm at work using IE6...

My sincere condolences...

 

[Scribble]

In addition to the looks changes, they also brought the art galleries behind the subscription wall, a fairly major change that actually pisses me off. For as long as I can remember surfing to the Wizards of the Coast website, I was able to look at the artwork in products they were producing. Apparently not anymore.

Weird... Maybe I'm just awesome or something... Or maybe they've since fixed it?

I wasn't logged in, and could access the galleries... The only ones that told me I needed to be a subscriber were the magazine galleries. The books? I could access just fine.

Did you try clicking on the thumbnail? It gets all bigger when you do that.

 

[bastrak]

Weird... Maybe I'm just awesome or something... Or maybe they've since fixed it?

I wasn't logged in, and could access the galleries... The only ones that told me I needed to be a subscriber were the magazine galleries. The books? I could access just fine.

I've just checked and sadly the only change I can see is that the Monster Manual art gallery is now accessible from the front page. I'm wondering if this is an oversight, as looking at the Article Archive page just about all 4e art galleries still require DDI subscription.

I've previously made my feelings on that quite clear.

 

[Mercutio01]

Bah, I'll just quit before I restart this argument. To put it simply--I'm mad because of this decision, but it is not the sole reason I am done with Wizards of the Coast. It is just the latest in a 2 year long pattern of bad business decisions which have negatively affected my opinion of them as a business. As such, I choose not to support the company any more.

 

[Remathilis]

I've just checked and sadly the only change I can see is that the Monster Manual art gallery is now accessible from the front page. I'm wondering if this is an oversight, as looking at the Article Archive page just about all 4e art galleries still require DDI subscription.

I've previously made my feelings on that quite clear.

No oversight; the 4e "core" books (PHB, DMG, MM) are all free. Any other book? $$$.