(Poll) Will the DDI delay influence your 4e purchases?

[Grazzt]

DDI means 0.00% of my game to me.

Yep. I havent seen anything on there that makes it worth it (to me) yet.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

If there is a 6–12 month delay, but they roll out iPhone/Mac support when it arrives, all will be forgiven for me.

Otherwise, DDI is completely off my radar and I will never subscribe.

 

[Kez Darksun]

Hyping DDI when, in my opinion, they knew it couldn't be delivered on time, just gives me one more reason to hate the marketing of 4th edition and makes them no different than any other MMO company out there, regardless of what Chris Youngs wants to think.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

Having the online compendium would be cool, but it isn't needed. I've gotten the core 3 books but any more 4e purchases depends on those books and on what the rest of my group does.

 

[erisred]

I'm still pissed about not having print Dragon & Dungeon anymore.

Yeah, I'll agree with that. I never subscribed, only bought a magazine now and then, but having the *option* to look the magazine over in the store and decide whether to buy or not sure beats where we're going to end up being.

As for the gametable, well, I know they don't have *all* the promised bells and whistles, but there are already several pretty good virtual gametables out there. Here are a few...

Fantasy Grounds
Maptool
Klooge Werks
OpenRPG

 

[Montague68]

Unless they bungle the whole thing to death.

--fje

They will.

What's surprising to me is the amount of people who fell for WOTC's bullcrap and actually thought that a software product of theirs would be released on time or would be feature complete. Look at E-tools and MTGO, and someone tell me where the basis is for anyone to think that WOTC is even remotely competent enough to pull off something like DDI?

This will be released months from now at a reduced rate because they will be flying the white flag, unable to deliver on the features they promised (again). There it will linger on with a few thousand subscribers barely paying the electric bill at the server farm until they mercifully pull the plug and move on to the next underfunded and overhyped moneygrab project that upper management is deluded into thinking they have the organizational and technical competence to achieve.

And the cycle will begin anew.

 

[Vanuslux]

They will.

What's surprising to me is the amount of people who fell for WOTC's bullcrap and actually thought that a software product of theirs would be released on time or would be feature complete. Look at E-tools and MTGO, and someone tell me where the basis is for anyone to think that WOTC is even remotely competent enough to pull off something like DDI?

This will be released months from now at a reduced rate because they will be flying the white flag, unable to deliver on the features they promised (again). There it will linger on with a few thousand subscribers barely paying the electric bill at the server farm until they mercifully pull the plug and move on to the next underfunded and overhyped moneygrab project that upper management is deluded into thinking they have the organizational and technical competence to achieve.

And the cycle will begin anew.

Sad...but I'm definitely filing that under the most likely scenario.

As for the poll, the fact that DDI is a no show definitely lowers my enthusiasm for the new edition significantly. If they don't have a character generator ready soon, I may go back to 3.5 since I have PCGen and several of the official WotC datapacks. It's crude, but it's better than anything I can get for the current edition.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I couldn't care less about DDI. Then again, I hardly know what it is. Or Pathfinder. Or Gleemax. Those are all side issues compared to the game books.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I never planned on using the DDI at all, so it changes nothing for mw. I wil not get the FR book, I might get the Martial Power book, and will almost definitely get the Treasure one. The only thing that will stop those purchases if I don:t like 4E, DDI has no impact.

 

[Henry]

I'll be basing it on what my group does with it, not what the DDI does, as well as my "strapped for cash" levels at the time.