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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 5367666" data-attributes="member: 725">I'm currently not a DDI subscriber (not playing 4E), but the service always was interesting and the news post on the frontpage made me revistit the DDI pages.For $72 you currently get 2000+ pages of content from Dungeon &amp; Dragon Magazine a year, that's less the 1.5 cents a page. You have access to the D&amp;D Compendium, the ability digitally search and copy rules would be worth more then a few bucks. Character Builder is nice, but to be honest how often do you create a new character? I think the Monster Builder is potentially more usefull, but it's still in beta.I don't think the issue is the worth of the package, but rather the unkept promises and instead of getting more feature, getting less features. While not being able to use it offline is a serious issue for some, the ability to not export the characters is probably more of an issue, there are a ton of applications that handle offline usage quite well.&nbsp; Things like i4e handle the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch end quite well, no export no using these apps. Web based wouldn't be so much of an issue if it wasn't build on Silverlight, sure short term it might have been quicker, but long term it's a stupid move (and if no one in that department said so, they are all idiots on this particular point).The biggest issue imho is that WotC didn't keep it's promise to keep it's application updated every month and are now moving to a new application that is actually missing key functionality. Not to mention all the promises that were made regarding all the other tools that where on the 'horizon'. This doesn't give folks much confidence in WotCs ability to actually implement the missing key functionalities in the web app. It's not as if TSR/WotC has had such a great track record with their D&amp;D applications...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 5367666, member: 725"] I'm currently not a DDI subscriber (not playing 4E), but the service always was interesting and the news post on the frontpage made me revistit the DDI pages. For $72 you currently get 2000+ pages of content from Dungeon & Dragon Magazine a year, that's less the 1.5 cents a page. You have access to the D&D Compendium, the ability digitally search and copy rules would be worth more then a few bucks. Character Builder is nice, but to be honest how often do you create a new character? I think the Monster Builder is potentially more usefull, but it's still in beta. I don't think the issue is the worth of the package, but rather the unkept promises and instead of getting more feature, getting less features. While not being able to use it offline is a serious issue for some, the ability to not export the characters is probably more of an issue, there are a ton of applications that handle offline usage quite well. Things like i4e handle the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch end quite well, no export no using these apps. Web based wouldn't be so much of an issue if it wasn't build on Silverlight, sure short term it might have been quicker, but long term it's a stupid move (and if no one in that department said so, they are all idiots on this particular point). The biggest issue imho is that WotC didn't keep it's promise to keep it's application updated every month and are now moving to a new application that is actually missing key functionality. Not to mention all the promises that were made regarding all the other tools that where on the 'horizon'. This doesn't give folks much confidence in WotCs ability to actually implement the missing key functionalities in the web app. It's not as if TSR/WotC has had such a great track record with their D&D applications... [/QUOTE]

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