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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 4070594" data-attributes="member: 5948">It's looking worse as time goes on to be honest.When the news came out that Dungeon and Dragon mags were to be absorbed into the DI, the WotC line was that when Gleemax went live access would be free until the big 4e release, just to give people a taste of what the DI, digital Dungeon/Dragon etc was all about in the hope they'd be impressed and be more willing to shell out their hard-earned when the site went pay-for-access.But now we're told that the current Gleemax is only an alpha (not even a beta!), that previews are going to slow down or stop for the immediate future, and that the 'real' thing is coming and when it does we should pay up and be amazed at how staggeringly better it is than what we're seeing now.This is bad because it's transparently obvious that things are not going to plan over there.&nbsp; Gleemax's technical issues are still significant (and we haven't even seen the virtual game table and other gimmicks that are going to be significantly harder to implement), Dungeon and Dragon content is coming out in dribs and drabs, promised features (compiled pdfs for instance) are either months behind schedule or have been quietly dropped, and as a free sampler of what the DI has in store this whole package as we see it now is a long, loooong way from enticing.My completely uninformed guess is that the DI has fallen victim to the old WotC-can't-do-software-worth-a-damn disease that so many of us are bitterly familiar with.&nbsp; Signs would seem to point that way...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 4070594, member: 5948"] It's looking worse as time goes on to be honest. When the news came out that Dungeon and Dragon mags were to be absorbed into the DI, the WotC line was that when Gleemax went live access would be free until the big 4e release, just to give people a taste of what the DI, digital Dungeon/Dragon etc was all about in the hope they'd be impressed and be more willing to shell out their hard-earned when the site went pay-for-access. But now we're told that the current Gleemax is only an alpha (not even a beta!), that previews are going to slow down or stop for the immediate future, and that the 'real' thing is coming and when it does we should pay up and be amazed at how staggeringly better it is than what we're seeing now. This is bad because it's transparently obvious that things are not going to plan over there. Gleemax's technical issues are still significant (and we haven't even [i]seen[/i] the virtual game table and other gimmicks that are going to be significantly harder to implement), Dungeon and Dragon content is coming out in dribs and drabs, promised features (compiled pdfs for instance) are either months behind schedule or have been quietly dropped, and as a free sampler of what the DI has in store this whole package as we see it now is a long, loooong way from enticing. My completely uninformed guess is that the DI has fallen victim to the old WotC-can't-do-software-worth-a-damn disease that so many of us are bitterly familiar with. Signs would seem to point that way... [/QUOTE]

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