WOTC! Give us an update!

[Grymar]

I had originally planned to subscribe sight unseen to the DI; now, I am much more likely to ignore it completely, given what we've seen so far of the followthrough that WotC is putting out.

I agree with this. I have decided to not subscribe to DI for at least the first few months to see how it goes. I was going to jump on it right away, but Wizards' failure to hold the internet content to their own timeline has made me decide to wait. It seems that the lack of a printer's deadline for a magazine has led them to get lazy (not to insinuate that they aren't working, they are just working on other things).

 

[Cadfan]

1: Actually, the miniature wargame rules were a significant release of information. If you have the time to read through the thread discussing the miniature rules, you can learn a lot about what 4e will look like. Granted, you're seeing it through a glass darkly, but special abilities like a fighter attack that does extra damage to a bloodied target are useful pieces of information if you're trying to outline 4e.

2: I do generally agree that WOTC needs to get on the ball about online updates. This is a constant complaint of mine regarding gaming companies, but in WOTC's case its especially important- Because the online articles are supposed to be a preview of the digital initiative, ie, a thing we are supposed to want to pay for, they need to be professional about it. They need to impress us, or at least not make us worry that they'll update the DI late when its a pay-by-month product, just like they're updating it late now.

I don't care what the updates are. I don't even care how many updates we get. But if they say "you will receive X by date Y," it needs to happen.

 

[Deset Gled]

Wow, we've had nothing for weeks now. Seriously, wheres that warlock pacts article, or the design and development articles on the others classes (ranger for instance).

Come on WOTC...talk 2 your FANS!

Also, WotC, please note that a video of a designer saying many words with little to no content does not count as an update.

 

[Raven Crowking]

I don't understand what the complaint is about -- this is exactly what some of us predicted from the DI.

RC

 

[jester47]

My theory is that the designers are dragging their feet on Dungeon and Dragon articles so that the upper brass will decide to egive the contract back to Paizo.

"You want us to do development AND write for a magazine? Riiiiight."
Brass Leaves,
"Okay guys, we HAVE to get this back into Mona and Jacob's hands..."

 

[mhacdebhandia]

MLK Jr. Day. Many public-sector employees will have today off, but it's mostly a crapshoot whether or not private-sector empolyees will. For example, I don't. :\

Your country sucks. :\

Next weekend is Australia Day, which is for us most like the Fourth of July is for Americans, and because it falls on a Saturday we're having the following Monday off as a public holiday. Pretty much only general retail shops stay open - petrol stations, supermarkets - along with restaurants.

 

[Voss]

I don't understand what the complaint is about -- this is exactly what some of us predicted from the DI.

RC

Its my fault. I totally wished the DI a painful death. RPGs need more money in books, editing and playtesting. Electronic and multi-media garbage is a complete waste of resources.

 

[Skornn2k7]

Your country sucks. :\

You way don't want to go there. We have way more idiots with guns than you do

 

[Umbran]

Folks,

Come on, now - you all know that we have a no-politics rule. Don't go there, please.

 

[Zaruthustran]

I echo the sentiments about the (lack of) regular updates. I think part of the problem is that the DI team has apparently been expecting the devs to provide content. And they're, you know, a little busy working on a game. Given the choice between hitting a deadline for 4E, or hitting a deadline for a web article, they're going to pick the 4E deadline every time.

And they should! Those guys are developers and designers, not journalists/editors/writers. An occasional blog post from an architect of the new edition is a nice treat, but they shouldn't be the main content of the site. No, the meat and potatoes of DDI and online Dragon/Dungeon should be created by professional content-producers: writers, whose sole job is to write articles.