Those of you who are on Facebook may have noticed a neat little application called "Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures" that lets you play a quasi-4E character, go on adventures, gain xp and treasures, etc. It's been out for a couple of days, I believe, but I just discovered it today and I've been playing with lots of my friends (friends can't help you adventure, but they can heal and buff you while you are out adventuring).

This afternoon, the application started terminating for lots of folks, giving the message "User wizapps_wotc has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections". I got back on, only to get kicked off for the same error message.

I point this out partly because I recommend Tiny Adventures, but mostly to say that I think this is an unpleasant, but sadly typical, example of WotC's ability to fumble any kind of web-based play/reporting/product launch/etc.

Those of you who are on Facebook may have noticed a neat little application called "Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures" that lets you play a quasi-4E character, go on adventures, gain xp and treasures, etc. It's been out for a couple of days, I believe, but I just discovered it today and I've been playing with lots of my friends (friends can't help you adventure, but they can heal and buff you while you are out adventuring).

This afternoon, the application started terminating for lots of folks, giving the message "User wizapps_wotc has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections". I got back on, only to get kicked off for the same error message.

I point this out partly because I recommend Tiny Adventures, but mostly to say that I think this is an unpleasant, but sadly typical, example of WotC's ability to fumble any kind of web-based play/reporting/product launch/etc.

I played that all day at work. Fun stuff! However, I think it's what happens when Wizards announces something on the web and everyone runs to check it out. Unfortunate, but not as big a failure as not launching their highly hyped online game table and character generator months and months before it was even ready for beta testing. (And then not actually apologizing for it yet, as near as I can see. That's what bugs me about the whole electronic tools debacle: no real admission of a mistake.)

I can't find it! I've searched the Applications for "D&D", "Dungeons", "Dragon" "Tiny" "Tiny "Adventures", everything I could think of.

"D&D", and any combination of those words above beyond just a single word returns NO RESULTS. Everything else returns a bunch of stuff, that never includes this app. WHERE DO I FIND IT???

I can't find it! I've searched the Applications for "D&D", "Dungeons", "Dragon" "Tiny" "Tiny "Adventures", everything I could think of.

"D&D", and any combination of those words above beyond just a single word returns NO RESULTS. Everything else returns a bunch of stuff, that never includes this app. WHERE DO I FIND IT???

This should get you where you need to go:

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I'm not exactly a fan of 4E, but this seems to be good little time-waster. Definitely better than three-quarters of the games on facebook.

Thanks for the tip!

Those of you who are on Facebook may have noticed a neat little application called "Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures" that lets you play a quasi-4E character, go on adventures, gain xp and treasures, etc. It's been out for a couple of days, I believe, but I just discovered it today and I've been playing with lots of my friends (friends can't help you adventure, but they can heal and buff you while you are out adventuring).

This afternoon, the application started terminating for lots of folks, giving the message "User wizapps_wotc has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections". I got back on, only to get kicked off for the same error message.

I point this out partly because I recommend Tiny Adventures, but mostly to say that I think this is an unpleasant, but sadly typical, example of WotC's ability to fumble any kind of web-based play/reporting/product launch/etc.

So you never had a web aplication glitch on you before?

Apparently WOTC can't ever win.

So you never had a web aplication glitch on you before? Apparently WOTC can't ever win.

WotC didn't have a Web glitch. They've had repeated failures, often of serious magnitude. They've admitted this themselves.

For the industry leader, their performance is nothing short of incompetent. Seriously, how many major foul-ups are necessary before it is we can blame them for dropping the ball? It's a rhetorical question, but a somewhat serious one. Their failures have gone far beyond the point that many companies would be making major personnel changes.

WotC can't win because they keep dropping the ball, not because they aren't being given a fair shake (OK, at least on this issue).

Nahualt wrote:

So you never had a web aplication glitch on you before? Apparently WOTC can't ever win.

WotC didn't have a Web glitch. They've had repeated failures, often of serious magnitude. They've admitted this themselves.

For the industry leader, their performance is nothing short of incompetent. Seriously, how many major foul-ups are necessary before it is we can blame them for dropping the ball? It's a rhetorical question, but a somewhat serious one. Their failures have gone far beyond the point that many companies would be making major personnel changes.

WotC can't win because they keep dropping the ball, not because they aren't being given a fair shake (OK, at least on this issue).

I take it you don't play many MMOs?

Nahualt wrote:

So you never had a web aplication glitch on you before? Apparently WOTC can't ever win.

WotC didn't have a Web glitch. They've had repeated failures, often of serious magnitude. They've admitted this themselves.

For the industry leader, their performance is nothing short of incompetent. Seriously, how many major foul-ups are necessary before it is we can blame them for dropping the ball? It's a rhetorical question, but a somewhat serious one. Their failures have gone far beyond the point that many companies would be making major personnel changes.

WotC can't win because they keep dropping the ball, not because they aren't being given a fair shake (OK, at least on this issue).

I agree completely, Tatter. I also have it on second-hand rumor that your "major personnel changes" prediction may have already occurred: there was a massive layoff of the Virtual Gaming Table team a few months back...a friend of a friend stepped into that, and was frustrated because they've had to rebuild the whole thing basically from scratch. So no surprise to me that it's running way behind.

This is separate, of course, from the more recent round of layoffs due to corporate restructuring.