1) D&D Beyond is not "mandatory". If anyone has other digital resources already, nobody is forcing anyone to "buy" DDB.
2) Even if anyone has the book already, paying for DDB is more than fair in any case. There are actual people spending time and resources to create DDB. If not out of respect for these people's work, time and resources are not free.
I understand that this is not a simple task but I personally and I think others will agree that I would rather have a crude version of phase two that gets built upon from feedback rather than have us give the feed back and wait in anticipation, checking everyday to see if the next phase is out... or at least give an ETA
A version more crude than what the developers consider good enough to show the public has nothing it can do that a later version the developers are happy to release to public scrutiny can't do except disappoint people - both in the form of testers that don't have the patience to wait for it to be bettered, and in the form of developers frustrated by doing what the public kept insisting they wanted and the reception being less than grateful about it.
Because people will say "I had to wait for this?" no matter the quality, nor the time actually waited. And the developers don't need to have "Yeah, I told you it wasn't ready but you just insisted you'd rather have it now." compounding that kind of feedback in their heads.
I also disagree that giving an ETA is a good idea. The internet treats ETAs as promises, and flips out if those perceived promises ever get broken - and sometimes the internet will even flip out at anyone that dares remind them that it was an estimate, not a promise. So it's best not to say anything about when something is going to come out until that is a date that will certainly not be missed or delayed.
Now that I think about it, part of the problem arises from the fact that if I'd known that D&D Beyond would be a thing back in the early days of 5th Edition I might have made different purchasing decisions.
That may well be true, but you have to stay mindful of the fact that had you known - or even just believed or hoped strongly enough, since you don't actually need to be certain about something coming in order to say "I'll wait and see..." - you might still have made the choice to purchase what you did just so that you would have something, rather than nothing, in the intervening time.
You're right, but at least then it would have been an informed decision. I'm not suggesting they should have told us about D&D Beyond back when 5th Edition was first released (technically, they had a different partner doing it at the time but later dumped the project because of a disagreement over the scope - a classic misstep by WotC). D&D Beyond wasn't even a twinkle in Twitch's eye back then.
As impatient as I am, I have to agree that I'd rather wait than get something too broken to be useful. That doesn't mean I'm happy about waiting though 😄
Just a few comments. No hard feelings to anybody:
1) D&D Beyond is not "mandatory". If anyone has other digital resources already, nobody is forcing anyone to "buy" DDB.
2) Even if anyone has the book already, paying for DDB is more than fair in any case. There are actual people spending time and resources to create DDB. If not out of respect for these people's work, time and resources are not free.
And idea when Phase 2 will be released? i need the character management more than any thing
The only official statements are the following:
Given that, we don't have an ETA for phase 2, but my guess is that we'll see it in about 2-3 more weeks.
I understand that this is not a simple task but I personally and I think others will agree that I would rather have a crude version of phase two that gets built upon from feedback rather than have us give the feed back and wait in anticipation, checking everyday to see if the next phase is out... or at least give an ETA
I disagree.
A version more crude than what the developers consider good enough to show the public has nothing it can do that a later version the developers are happy to release to public scrutiny can't do except disappoint people - both in the form of testers that don't have the patience to wait for it to be bettered, and in the form of developers frustrated by doing what the public kept insisting they wanted and the reception being less than grateful about it.
Because people will say "I had to wait for this?" no matter the quality, nor the time actually waited. And the developers don't need to have "Yeah, I told you it wasn't ready but you just insisted you'd rather have it now." compounding that kind of feedback in their heads.
I also disagree that giving an ETA is a good idea. The internet treats ETAs as promises, and flips out if those perceived promises ever get broken - and sometimes the internet will even flip out at anyone that dares remind them that it was an estimate, not a promise. So it's best not to say anything about when something is going to come out until that is a date that will certainly not be missed or delayed.
As impatient as I am, I have to agree that I'd rather wait than get something too broken to be useful. That doesn't mean I'm happy about waiting though 😄
Whilst you all wait, the latest Dragon+ issues is out with some more info on beyond: http://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/news-announcements/2800-d-d-beyond-in-the-latest-dragon-issue
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