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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4392515" data-attributes="member: 65637">I put a two up then read this thread.  Here were my reasons for the two.  Here are five of the things that went into this.  Not the ONLY five, but the ones I felt should be mentioned.1) Magic the Gathering.  There has been a very obvious power creep in Magic for some time, forcing players to constantly buy new cards, but what's really asinine is the practice of banning a card then making an almost complete carbon copy in the very next set that isn't banned.  "Asinine" is the polite way of putting it.2) Minis.  Not the game, the minis themselves.  The quality has simply just gotten lower, and lower, and lower as time has gone by, while the number of *useful* commons has made a similar plunge.  Personally, I've never been *that* into minis, but the ones WotC has been offering more and more lately have been abysmal.3) 4e's product quality.  No, not he mechanics or the game.  The editing is poor, the actual product is poor (we're still trying to get rid of the horrifying spine-crease ours came with to no luck, and we're not the only ones), and many of the side bits have been stupidly overpriced at best and insulting at worse (the player sheets?  Charging us for your developer's notes?  Come on.)4) Online content.  I'm not sure if I even need to go into this.  Charging for virtual minis in the DDI we'd ALREADY have to pay for...assuming they ever get it up, which looks more and more unlikely.  The horrifyingly bad message board quality.  Nor is this anything new; WotC online content has been a joke - a BAD joke, but a joke - for quite some time now.5) Lastly, their advertisement.  As someone else stated, their statement of "We have no plans for 4e" on the same month as their 4e announcement.  Cancelling Dungeon and Dragon for their boasted online content, and we all know how awesomely that's gone.  Charging players to read developer's notes while they talk about putting journals and blogs online.  Lots of this very strongly hurts the player.</blockquote>

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