STILL No Character Builder Update?

[Markn]

I really want to subscribe to D&DI for the Character Creator, but dang, I don't want to pay the five bucks for it... especially if you guys are saying there hasn't been an update in a while.. .

I just want the ability to keep track of my character while we play in 4.0e.. but.. dang, 5 bucks? That's a meal in my stomach.

I wouldn't look at it that way. You get both the Dungeon and Dragon magazine subscriptions (sure they get flak but there still is a lot of useful things in there like maps, art, ideas that you can mine, etc), the CB (which my guess is they are about to release a new version of it and even if I am wrong its still a very handy tool), the Adventure Tool for the DM which is hands down the best thing they have (even though its not perfect it is incredibly useful) and access to sone DDI content only such as playtests and pre-previews. I thinks its worth the money myself.

 

[Minifig]

Well, now I'm having even more second thoughts. My friend bought his sub, and the character creator won't install as a full client no matter what he does.. :/

 

[Minifig]

I just want to say trying to set up the demo of the Character Creator a Laptop with a Pentium 4-M, 1.7GHz, 256MB, 30GB is like subjugating a quadriplegic snail to run through a labyrinth of salt while a slowly burning fuse leads to an m-80 firework strapped to its back.

Massive disappointment here for me as I was going to use it to track my characters progress and stuff while we played D&D 4e.

 

[Ahrimon]

What if we're ambivalent/neutral to the point where we just.. don't care?

I'd say you were a rare person for an internet forum.

As for it running slow, it's probably the .net. It's slow even on fairly beefy computers.

 

[drothgery]

I just want to say trying to set up the demo of the Character Creator a Laptop with a Pentium 4-M, 1.7GHz, 256MB, 30GB is like subjugating a quadriplegic snail to run through a labyrinth of salt while a slowly burning fuse leads to an m-80 firework strapped to its back.

Massive disappointment here for me as I was going to use it to track my characters progress and stuff while we played D&D 4e.

It's not entirely clear to me if you're being serious here or not.

If you are... your computer is over 7 years old. $200 netbooks have 4 times the RAM, 5 times the hard drive space, and more powerful CPUs.

 

[Jack99]

Well, the October calendar is up and there is STILL no scheduled Character Builder update dammit. I did my part WOTC. Even though I swore that I would never play 4E again until the Game Table was released, I still bought your Essentials books. I re-subscribed to DDI. I actually even got a little excited about a reinvigorated game. And now you pull this crap.

Essentials would normally not be out until October, and last I checked, October isn't over yet. The calendar is a dynamic document and can be changed at any time. Plan is still to release, just no date yet.

It's not entirely clear to me if you're being serious here or not.

If you are... your computer is over 7 years old. $200 netbooks have 4 times the RAM, 5 times the hard drive space, and more powerful CPUs.

I think my phone is more powerful - no wonder he has issues.

 

[Minifig]

It's not entirely clear to me if you're being serious here or not.

If you are... your computer is over 7 years old. $200 netbooks have 4 times the RAM, 5 times the hard drive space, and more powerful CPUs.

I am being 100% serious...and thankfully, the machine, is not my primary machine.

It's just a laptop I decided to borrow from my sixty-two year old father and my mother in an attempt to have a laptop to run the character creator while we play 4e.. and sadly, it's ... really, really, really, really slow.

So slow, that I may not even be able to use it for my idea.

I think my phone is more powerful - no wonder he has issues.

My Casio Atomic Watch has more memory than the laptop we're talking about.

 

[dvvega]

It is strange but I always thought the updates were due October ... I do not know where I read that or where I saw it.

This same "argument" was had with another player in my group who swore black and blue that it would be September.

At least - no matter where I heard the October option - it has made me less susceptible to raging about this.

D

 

[pming]

Hiya.

Uh, it's still October. Until the calendar hits "November 1st", they're ok.

PS: Just an observation...I don't even play/own 4e, DDI, etc.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

 

[Ktulu]

Hiya.

Uh, it's still October. Until the calendar hits "November 1st", they're ok.

PS: Just an observation...I don't even play/own 4e, DDI, etc.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

Dagnabbit, Paul! We're not here to be calm and rational. The intarwebs have sanctions against such blasphemous actions. Go drink tea and be all zen somewhere else! I, for one, am going to start chewing on my keyboard*.



*Not really, I'm completely happy with the products I've received from WotC, and will continue to keep my subscription and wait with gleeful anticipation...until November 1. After that, Stuff gets Real.