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<blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 5382356" data-attributes="member: 10095">Me, too. I've got a reputation as an edition warrior. I often give WotC more slack in software matters due to personal experience as a software developer.However, slack goes only so far, and the state of the CB at release goes well beyond the slack I can give. If it were my company putting out that program, I would be ashamed that customers were paying for it.I wanted to like it. I wanted it to be awesome. Optimism is better for the heart and mind than pessimism. Unfortunately, the furthest towards optimism I can go is realism, and the reality is that this was a completely awful launch.I should point out that Magic Online has had a rather troubled history and was originally developed by another company, then taken over by Wizards in 2.0. Duels of the Planewalkers was not developed by Wizards, but a third-party company. The CB is an in-house project. I understand Wizards aren't primarily a software company, but as the number of in-house software increases, they're going to be judged on the same standards as such.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Little Raven, post: 5382356, member: 10095"] Me, too. I've got a reputation as an edition warrior. I often give WotC more slack in software matters due to personal experience as a software developer. However, slack goes only so far, and the state of the CB at release goes well beyond the slack I can give. If it were my company putting out that program, I would be ashamed that customers were paying for it. I wanted to like it. I wanted it to be awesome. Optimism is better for the heart and mind than pessimism. Unfortunately, the furthest towards optimism I can go is realism, and the reality is that this was a completely awful launch. I should point out that Magic Online has had a rather troubled history and was originally developed by another company, then taken over by Wizards in 2.0. Duels of the Planewalkers was not developed by Wizards, but a third-party company. The CB is an in-house project. I understand Wizards aren't primarily a software company, but as the number of in-house software increases, they're going to be judged on the same standards as such. [/QUOTE]

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