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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Xtheth" data-source="post: 5339815" data-attributes="member: 56179">Duke Nukem Forever?&nbsp;Kidding aside, here's my theory as why its taking so long:&nbsp;Essentials made it so the character builder requires a &lt;&quot;New format&quot;&gt;. WoTC employees were instructed from &lt;Date X&gt; forward to write every entry for the CB update in the &lt;New Format&gt;.&nbsp;The &lt;New Format&gt; requires re-writing of ALL of the old data to comply with the &lt;New Format&gt;. I'll take a further guess and say they probably need to put new &quot;tags&quot; on powers, feats, etc. to be properly understood under the &lt;New Format&gt;. Any previous information will not work properly with the &lt;New Format&gt; and will cause bugs, crashes, dead computers, etc.&nbsp;Re-Writing everything from &lt;Date X&gt; on to now in the &lt;Old Format&gt; will only take MORE time and effort (That they can't spare because they're busy updating everything to the &lt;New Format&gt;), so that is out of the question.&nbsp;There is a whole bunch of information in the &lt;Old Format&gt; that needs to be changed to the &lt;New Format&gt; and it's taking alot longer than WoTC expected. Overtime is out of the question because (just let me remind you this is all guesswork at the moment) someone at Hasbro says &quot;overtime is not in the budget for this progect&quot;.&nbsp;As soon as everything is converted into the &lt;New Format&gt; we will get the release.&nbsp;Does this stop me from wanting my Dark Sun update NOW? No <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp;There, I said it. If I'm right, give me XPs when the NDA is over!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Xtheth, post: 5339815, member: 56179"] Duke Nukem Forever? Kidding aside, here's my theory as why its taking so long: Essentials made it so the character builder requires a <"New format">. WoTC employees were instructed from <Date X> forward to write every entry for the CB update in the <New Format>. The <New Format> requires re-writing of ALL of the old data to comply with the <New Format>. I'll take a further guess and say they probably need to put new "tags" on powers, feats, etc. to be properly understood under the <New Format>. Any previous information will not work properly with the <New Format> and will cause bugs, crashes, dead computers, etc. Re-Writing everything from <Date X> on to now in the <Old Format> will only take MORE time and effort (That they can't spare because they're busy updating everything to the <New Format>), so that is out of the question. There is a whole bunch of information in the <Old Format> that needs to be changed to the <New Format> and it's taking alot longer than WoTC expected. Overtime is out of the question because (just let me remind you this is all guesswork at the moment) someone at Hasbro says "overtime is not in the budget for this progect". As soon as everything is converted into the <New Format> we will get the release. Does this stop me from wanting my Dark Sun update NOW? No :( There, I said it. If I'm right, give me XPs when the NDA is over! [/QUOTE]

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