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<blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5380828" data-attributes="member: 90804"><p>This is my problem, too. <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/online-character-builder-review/" target="_blank">More on my blog</a>, but in a nutshell I think it's a lousy experience for them to release a program that's worse than the old option right now. That's a bad experience for their good, paying customers. </p><p></p><p>One reasonable solution would have been to release the new Builder as a beta to DDI subscribers and to keep the old Builder available for download. The even better solution would have been to keep updating the downloadable Builder with Essentials and Dark Sun until the online Builder was out of beta, but I would have been more understanding if they just said, "Listen, we're focusing our efforts on the online Builder, so the old one won't get any updates. But this new one is in beta right now."</p><p></p><p>That's exactly what we've got right now, except that they're not calling the online Builder a beta release. They're saying, "Tah dah, here's our new and improved product!" And it's a step backward in many important ways. If they had just called it a beta release, the backlash would have been diminished, in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OnlineDM, post: 5380828, member: 90804"] This is my problem, too. [URL="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/online-character-builder-review/"]More on my blog[/URL], but in a nutshell I think it's a lousy experience for them to release a program that's worse than the old option right now. That's a bad experience for their good, paying customers. One reasonable solution would have been to release the new Builder as a beta to DDI subscribers and to keep the old Builder available for download. The even better solution would have been to keep updating the downloadable Builder with Essentials and Dark Sun until the online Builder was out of beta, but I would have been more understanding if they just said, "Listen, we're focusing our efforts on the online Builder, so the old one won't get any updates. But this new one is in beta right now." That's exactly what we've got right now, except that they're not calling the online Builder a beta release. They're saying, "Tah dah, here's our new and improved product!" And it's a step backward in many important ways. If they had just called it a beta release, the backlash would have been diminished, in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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