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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5380627" data-attributes="member: 7006">But here's the $64,000 question...Just how difficult was it to try and build the add-ons to the classic CB to accommodate the changes that came to the game via Dark Sun and Essentials (i.e. the DS Themes, and the new level ability structure of Essentials)? Since we can now see that the WotC digital team has been spending their time on both the online CB and the new VT (and based upon one of the FAQs, a soon-to-be-announced online Monster Builder too)... if for the sake of argument they didn't have the time/manpower available to try and juryrig the classic CB to accept the DS/Essentials stuff... what would have made people happier?- Release a buggy online CB now that has everything programmed into it and up-to-date.- Open the online CB to a beta... and update the classic CB with ONLY new crunch from the magazines and/or non-problematic items/feats from Dark Sun and Essentials?If it was just not feasible to make the old Builder work COMPLETELY with the entirety of Dark Sun and Essentials... how pissed off would folks have been knowing they would not be able to create Dark Sun or Essentials characters for another one to four months while they tried to get the &quot;beta version&quot; of the online Builder bug-free?Maybe some folks would have preferred that.&nbsp; I don't know.&nbsp; But it's real easy to just say &quot;update the old one!&quot; without knowing exactly how much time and effort would be spent to make that actually come true.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5380627, member: 7006"] But here's the $64,000 question... Just how difficult was it to try and build the add-ons to the classic CB to accommodate the changes that came to the game via Dark Sun and Essentials (i.e. the DS Themes, and the new level ability structure of Essentials)? Since we can now see that the WotC digital team has been spending their time on both the online CB and the new VT (and based upon one of the FAQs, a soon-to-be-announced online Monster Builder too)... if for the sake of argument they didn't have the time/manpower available to try and juryrig the classic CB to accept the DS/Essentials stuff... what would have made people happier? - Release a buggy online CB now that has everything programmed into it and up-to-date. - Open the online CB to a beta... and update the classic CB with [I]ONLY[/I] new crunch from the magazines and/or non-problematic items/feats from Dark Sun and Essentials? If it was just not feasible to make the old Builder work COMPLETELY with the entirety of Dark Sun and Essentials... how pissed off would folks have been knowing they would not be able to create Dark Sun or Essentials characters for another one to four months while they tried to get the "beta version" of the online Builder bug-free? Maybe some folks would have preferred that. I don't know. But it's real easy to just say "update the old one!" without knowing exactly how much time and effort would be spent to make that actually come true. [/QUOTE]

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