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<blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 6579337" data-attributes="member: 63245"><p>I like 5e. It's fantastic, I also like 4e and 3e and all the others Es out there. The guys over at WOTC are very adept at game design but every time they try to offer some kind of digital -thing- they fail, almost invariably either through bad negotiations, deals falling apart, inept programming or just plain bad ideas.</p><p></p><p>WHY, in this day and age can wizards not provide this? Specifically the D&D group. Magic The Gathering has, the past couple of years, released decent online games and programs. </p><p></p><p>-There was that character builder that came with the 3e books that was buggy as all heck.</p><p>-Gleemax failed and failed hard.</p><p>-They promised the world with 4e tools and we saw a decent character creator, but then they went with the silverlight thing and completely alienated mac users and tablet users. </p><p>-That virtual tabletop and DM content manager for 4e seems to have been vaporware.</p><p>-They pulled the PDFs and have no way to provide us with digital content.</p><p>-The 4e pc/console Neverwinter game was abysmal at launch (don't know if it was ever fixed)</p><p>-They started to break up the Dungeon and Dragon magazines providing no cohesive issues and as it stands right now the magazine is completely gone.</p><p>-Recently the morningstar debacle.</p><p></p><p>It's just so.... strange that in 2015 a huge player in the industry simply doesn't or cant offer digital content that should at this point be almost mandatory given the wide increase in smartphones, tablets, PC usage, and console usage. Surely I can't be the only person who has noticed this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evenglare, post: 6579337, member: 63245"] I like 5e. It's fantastic, I also like 4e and 3e and all the others Es out there. The guys over at WOTC are very adept at game design but every time they try to offer some kind of digital -thing- they fail, almost invariably either through bad negotiations, deals falling apart, inept programming or just plain bad ideas. WHY, in this day and age can wizards not provide this? Specifically the D&D group. Magic The Gathering has, the past couple of years, released decent online games and programs. -There was that character builder that came with the 3e books that was buggy as all heck. -Gleemax failed and failed hard. -They promised the world with 4e tools and we saw a decent character creator, but then they went with the silverlight thing and completely alienated mac users and tablet users. -That virtual tabletop and DM content manager for 4e seems to have been vaporware. -They pulled the PDFs and have no way to provide us with digital content. -The 4e pc/console Neverwinter game was abysmal at launch (don't know if it was ever fixed) -They started to break up the Dungeon and Dragon magazines providing no cohesive issues and as it stands right now the magazine is completely gone. -Recently the morningstar debacle. It's just so.... strange that in 2015 a huge player in the industry simply doesn't or cant offer digital content that should at this point be almost mandatory given the wide increase in smartphones, tablets, PC usage, and console usage. Surely I can't be the only person who has noticed this. [/QUOTE]
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