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<blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 5539484" data-attributes="member: 27160">I understand business logic pretty well, and I'm not &quot;failing in comprehension&quot; - I'm just failing in agreement.&nbsp; I can see the point being made by the &quot;retrict and control&quot; crew quite well - I just think it's bunk.&nbsp;It improved for Mac users.&nbsp; For everyone else it took a step back, still has no houseruling capability (even at the pretty poor level of the offline CB), and will disappear whenever WotC decides that the tool you are paying for is no longer something they wish you to have access to.&nbsp; Sounds nerfed, to me, and unfixably so.&nbsp;Flexible how?&nbsp; Houserule capability is nil.&nbsp; Character limit is 20 characters.&nbsp; Offline reading capability is nil, unless you set it up for yourself via PDF printing, or whatever.&nbsp;If I'm at home or near a wireless hotspot, sure, it would be fine.&nbsp; In most convention halls, however, not so much.&nbsp;The tools aren't the core problem.&nbsp; The ability of WotC to yank the product when they want you to spend money on something else is the real nub of the problem, for me.&nbsp; Offline, online or whatever, you need the tools to use the CB - but they're pretty common.&nbsp;It's not about &quot;making individual deals&quot; - it's about differential pricing; look it up.&nbsp;Several businesses do it, so it apparently isn't infeasible or unprofitable.&nbsp; And you still haven't grasped what the lack of a meaningful cap on production capacity means for a producing business.&nbsp;But it's still not as flexible as you could write into a spreadsheet (with a deal of effort) and when Wizards decides it's time for 5E, you'll still be without it as soon as they decide it's time for you to switch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Balesir, post: 5539484, member: 27160"] I understand business logic pretty well, and I'm not "failing in comprehension" - I'm just failing in agreement. I can see the point being made by the "retrict and control" crew quite well - I just think it's bunk. It improved for Mac users. For everyone else it took a step back, still has no houseruling capability (even at the pretty poor level of the offline CB), and will disappear whenever WotC decides that the tool you are paying for is no longer something they wish you to have access to. Sounds nerfed, to me, and unfixably so. Flexible how? Houserule capability is nil. Character limit is 20 characters. Offline reading capability is nil, unless you set it up for yourself via PDF printing, or whatever. If I'm at home or near a wireless hotspot, sure, it would be fine. In most convention halls, however, not so much. The tools aren't the core problem. The ability of WotC to yank the product when they want you to spend money on something else is the real nub of the problem, for me. Offline, online or whatever, you need the tools to use the CB - but they're pretty common. It's not about "making individual deals" - it's about differential pricing; look it up. Several businesses do it, so it apparently isn't infeasible or unprofitable. And you still haven't grasped what the lack of a meaningful cap on production capacity means [I]for a producing business[/I]. But it's still not as flexible as you could write into a spreadsheet (with a deal of effort) and when Wizards decides it's time for 5E, you'll still be without it as soon as they decide it's time for you to switch. [/QUOTE]

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