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<blockquote data-quote="Anaphyis" data-source="post: 5586658" data-attributes="member: 99236">But there isn't anything to preserve. The pirates actually have a fully updated, stable and offline CB. We, i.e. WotC's actual customers, have a slow, sluggish and unstable mess that only works online. That's the asinine thing about this: they don't fight piracy. They make the pirated product the superior one while actively driving the people away who were actually willing to put down money every month to support D&amp;D. It's like some lunatics in the upper echelons have a sick wager about how fast they can ram the company into the ground.It really saddens me because unlike some of my buddies I was really enthusiastic about 4e when it came out and the things WotC did with their online model. Had they kept their focus on their actual customers like they did at the beginning instead of trying to fight against windmills and poisoning the very food they're trying to sell, who knows how it would've turned out.Anyway, I dropped my subscription when they changed the CB. Not because I desperately needed it. But pulling the plug on the offline CB while your substitute cannot even be called beta yet with a straight face reveals a mindset I don't want to support with money. And thanks to the decline of Dungeon/Dragon as well as the lack of PDFs and promised tools, DDi was hardly worth the money anymore anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anaphyis, post: 5586658, member: 99236"] But there isn't anything to preserve. The pirates actually have a[I] fully updated, stable and offline[/I] CB. We, i.e. WotC's actual customers, have a slow, sluggish and unstable mess that only works online. That's the asinine thing about this: they don't fight piracy. They make the pirated product[I] the superior one[/I] while actively driving the people away who were actually willing to put down money every month to support D&D. It's like some lunatics in the upper echelons have a sick wager about how fast they can ram the company into the ground. It really saddens me because unlike some of my buddies I was really enthusiastic about 4e when it came out and the things WotC did with their online model. Had they kept their focus on their actual customers like they did at the beginning instead of trying to fight against windmills and poisoning the very food they're trying to sell, who knows how it would've turned out. Anyway, I dropped my subscription when they changed the CB. Not because I desperately needed it. But pulling the plug on the offline CB while your substitute cannot even be called beta yet with a straight face reveals a mindset I don't want to support with money. And thanks to the decline of Dungeon/Dragon as well as the lack of PDFs and promised tools, DDi was hardly worth the money anymore anyway. [/QUOTE]

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