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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5439701" data-attributes="member: 1210">I'll speak to this really quickly.&nbsp; The issue is one of expectations- and reasonable ones, at that.WotC raised the expectations of would-be subscribers very high prior to 4e's release.&nbsp; They failed to deliver on a whole lot of their ambitions.&nbsp; Now, some people would argue that was because they had unrealistic goals, but that doesn't matter a dingo's kidneys to me, the customer.&nbsp; When a vendor sells me something, they need to deliver what was advertised, or I will be disappointed.But the thing is, they did provide a couple of good tools (or at least &quot;good enough&quot;) and some cool content.&nbsp; Hurray, we feel like we're making progress towards all the stuff WotC said they would have ready a couple of years ago!And then they yank support for the cool tools and replace them with broken crap, stop updating stuff while dancing right on the edge of dishonesty in dealing with their customers, replace decent or good maps with crap tiles, reduced the number of articles we get and the denseness of their content, etc.&nbsp; In other words, instead of the value of my DDI sub growing, I see it continuously dwindling, month by month.&nbsp; The new CB? Worse than the old in about a zillion ways.The new MB? As far as I can tell despite repeated requests for information, it's on the same schedule as the character visualizer. The Compendium? No longer complete, and its completeness no longer seems to be a major priority.The magazines? Now largely crap content, lots of preview and playtest material nobody should have to pay for, no real adventures, no real support for anything above 10th level.So to me, it's more about the value I'm receiving relative to a couple of months ago than anything else.&nbsp; If DDI had been in this kind of shape before I subbed, I wouldn't have bothered in the first place.&nbsp; It's sad that it is worth so much less now than it was a year or two ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5439701, member: 1210"] I'll speak to this really quickly. The issue is one of expectations- and reasonable ones, at that. WotC raised the expectations of would-be subscribers very high prior to 4e's release. They failed to deliver on a whole lot of their ambitions. Now, some people would argue that was because they had unrealistic goals, but that doesn't matter a dingo's kidneys to me, the customer. When a vendor sells me something, they need to deliver what was advertised, or I will be disappointed. But the thing is, they did provide a couple of good tools (or at least "good enough") and some cool content. Hurray, we feel like we're making progress towards all the stuff WotC said they would have ready a couple of years ago! And then they yank support for the cool tools and replace them with broken crap, stop updating stuff while dancing right on the edge of dishonesty in dealing with their customers, replace decent or good maps with crap tiles, reduced the number of articles we get and the denseness of their content, etc. In other words, instead of the value of my DDI sub growing, I see it continuously dwindling, month by month. The new CB? Worse than the old in about a zillion ways. The new MB? As far as I can tell despite repeated requests for information, it's on the same schedule as the character visualizer. The Compendium? No longer complete, and its completeness no longer seems to be a major priority. The magazines? Now largely crap content, lots of preview and playtest material [i]nobody should have to pay for[/i], no real adventures, no real support for anything above 10th level. So to me, it's more about the value I'm receiving [i]relative to a couple of months ago[/i] than anything else. If DDI had been in this kind of shape before I subbed, I wouldn't have bothered in the first place. It's sad that it is worth so much less now than it was a year or two ago. [/QUOTE]

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