Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="RLBURNSIDE" data-source="post: 5368273" data-attributes="member: 94650">What's next for DDIFirst your players got to have their character sheets locked away from them! But now, as a DM, you get that chance too!As DMs, all the countless hours -- years even! -- that you spent developing your campaign stories, backgrounds, adventure logs, maps, and monsters, will all get to become virtually property of Wotc, so that you will need to pay into perpetuity (unless we decide to delete your account for some future unknown reason) to maintain access to your own campaign! Isn't Web 2.0 exciting! Who'd a thunk that online cloud hosting could be so great for web services companies and so <s>terrible</s> awesome for consumers!Here's a simple pictogram of the brave new exciting world of "your campaign are now belong to us!" :"Your ideas/maps/stories/villains/creatures/backgrounds"-> "Upload to the cloud"-> Organize and store for 9.99 or more! a month-> Print out-> Never be able to download to another, exportable, open format! Just keep paying us! Trust us, it'll be great. We promise to never let you down, to never lose your campaign notes you're worked on for 20 years already, to never share your data, read it, pilfer a few ideas from it, mine it for data to sell to third parties, use it to sell you stuff and junk...we swear!-> Plus, when 5th edition comes out, we'll turn off the taps and possibly cut off development 1/2 way through your next campaign! And leave the builder in a state where you can't purchase magic items, for example.-> Oh, and any new books that renders 1/2 your characters useless or "houseruled" i.e. double-plus ungood (unprintable), when we come out with new rules that change how barbarians attack, or rogues hit in melee, or whatnot, even if you don't like them -- we do! And we know better than you, or you wouldn't be subscribing to Dnd Insider, wouldn't you. We know what's more convenient for you, an offline product that worked well until we ruined it and pulled it off the shelves, or an online-only, subscription based product that doesn't allow you to own your own data. Trust us! You have nothing to fear.Repeat the mantra of Web 2.0 ! Services -- and thoughts -- high up in the clouds.MOD EDIT:  Folks, personally I'm not exactly thrilled about the change in the Character Builder.  But this is exactly the kind of snarky hyperbole that is going to result in greater tension on the boards, more work for the moderators and eventually people getting banned.  How about we tone it down a bit?</blockquote>

Verification