According to WotC, their "market research" shows that gamers far prefer to read articles on a screen, rather than have a physical magazine. <shrugs> Draw your own conclusions from that one.
The problem with market research, as with a lot of statistics, is that you will find whatever conclusion you are searching for.
Meaning that if you wanted to prove that most D&D players want a virtual tabletop and virtual miniatures it's not difficult to twist the results of whatever survey you concocted to show this effect. This I know from having designed and corrected many such surveys myself.
The pressure to innovate and keep up with whatever trend is currently hottest is quite intense in a corporate environment, so I don't fault the WotC designers for jumping on this whole Intermaweb thing, but I do question as to how they arrived at the need for this DDI. I'm willing to bet good money that the misinterpretation of data that Samuel Weiss described above is exactly what occurred. "You used a computer in the last month? Gosh, you must be really excited about the virtual tabletop then!"+"Look at how many people visit our website every month. They could all be paying customers!"
That's the kind of misleading data analysis - with the goal leading the analysis - that sinks companies.
That and the fact that WotC seems to be actively avoiding any sources of criticism to avoid "negativity" means that what they're hearing is simply an echo chamber.
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Thank you for the warm welcome. I shall do my best to meet your wit and thought provoking conversation.Oh no! Don't lower yourself to our levels of wit. Retain what you can!
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Shouldn't you be conserving what wits you've got left for that project? Or is it going wit-out saying that you'll need a witless to check for witticisms in it?
Right, then, enough of that... Clear sign I should be going to bed and getting some sleep when I start making that horrific a punslinging.
Uhhh. What?
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Uhhh. What?
Mike's working on a Big Project for Pathfinder, and I'm prone to making bad puns at the drop of a hat (and proving Mike's point, I think), particularly when nearing the end of my personal definition of a day. (It's 3:30am here; normally I crash around 6, but since tomorrow I need to be up and about, I'll be crashing shortly.)
I see...Guessing from the time of day when you wrote the post our time zone differences aren't...well....much of a difference. Thanks for clarifying, I was about to rush out and get back to work on that big project of mine, except I couldn't figure out what the project was. You saved me a lot of time. Your right, Mike should get back to work.
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I see...Guessing from the time of day when you wrote the post our time zone differences aren't...well....much of a difference. Thanks for clarifying, I was about to rush out and get back to work on that big project of mine, except I couldn't figure out what the project was. You saved me a lot of time. Your right, Mike should get back to work.
I live in the Pacific time zone; my own profile information is moderately accurate on this count...
..I need to track Mike down and extort his GW info out of him. It's always cool to have people to chat with in-game who aren't utter wastes of oxygen.
You know people that waste oxygen? I thought I was bad with recycling.
Sounds like someone got on your bad side. Is the severity of their crimes sufficient for an atonement spell?
