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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5389061" data-attributes="member: 710">I think the DDI is fantastically cheap if it produces content I like and use. I am pretty much a WotC believer and apologist and D&D 4 f4nboi and all that. The 10 $ or 8 € or what it's for a yearly subscription don't hurt me one bit. I don't even have to drink one coffee less or go to the cinema once less a month for that.But... I'd still like to see something for that money. I haven't really used Dragon & Dungeon content in a while. Partially it's all my own fault, I just play less. But partially it's because there isn't much I would use either way, even if I had two sessions a week instead of 1-2 per month.The online character builder is primarily a big step back for me. I personally haven't encountered the monster builder issues yet, but once it's my turn again to run my online campaign, I might. Using movies as an example, I get:90 minutes or more direct entertainment from viewing the movie itself.I also get 30-60 minutes of discussing the movie with friends before or after the movie.I also get another 10-60 minutes of online discussions out of it, depening on the movie. Possibly another 10-60 of "inner reflection" where I just think about the movie, scenes, quotes, ideas. (Assuming this wasn't just a mindless stinker. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). That's 140 minutes to 270 minutes.And do I get that out of the current DDI content? I used to get about 1-3 hours each week of creating new characters just for fun or modifing my active characters (either leveling or just "speculative leveling") Maybe another hour or so of reading Dragon content that inspired some new ideas. But it seems that has gone down significantly. The new Online CB interface is less fun to me then that of the offline builder. That alone makes a big change to my use of DDI. It is certainly an unfortunate combination of two events - I play less due to scheduling issues, and the quality of DDI has gone down. If it was just one factor, I wouldn't worry probably. WotC can't change my scheduling issues, but they are responsible for DDI. So it's good to let them know that they need to imrpove their quality, and where they need to do it.</blockquote>

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