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And if LWD won't give you a refund, I will. Send me your contact information, and I will send you the cost of the product through paypal. I will gladly pay money to be rid of your constant, unreasonable complaining. As for me, I'm not happy that Calendars will be further delayed, but I'm content that they are still being worked on. They'll be ready when they're ready and not before. |
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Interesting proposition, not that I would accept your offer, but for what it says about you.
As a paying customer I have every right to voice my complaints and I will continue to do so (I think there's this little thing called freedom of speech). If you don't like my posts, just ignore them. |
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....and that was the last time the word "survey" was ever mentioned at headquarters....
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Technical Point*: At least in the US, freedom of speech is a restriction on the government. This bulletin board is run by a private entity, not the government, and that private entity can prevent us from speaking here if they wish. Similarly, we can voice our opinions on our own websites and LWD can't block us from doing so.
I would also point out that this forum has an Ignore feature if anyone is so inclined. I've used it on other forums before. (Extremely rarely, though.) ObTopic: A pattern that's been pretty plain throughout discussions of exporting is that the people like myself who wanted it the most are using Realm Works as they would other writing aids. That's also why I don't care whether or not you are allowed to export purchased items; I only want to be able to export things I've created. (Though you should be able to specify what people are allowed to do with stuff you want to share, much like in Acrobat, but I digress.) Honestly, I don't see the point of getting worked up about exporting or calendars or any other pet feature that isn't being given first priority. LWD's decisions for the near future have been made. If their vision is different enough from what you need that you won't find it useful for now, then shelve it. Come back in a year and see what's up. I've bought plenty of programs in the past that I never used to their potential, found weren't suited for what I wanted to do, or were too buggy to use properly. About all you can do is find something that works for you. * The best kind of point! |
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And now I'll respond to a wide range of comments made by various posters up-thread. This will entail multiple posts in order to keep them manageable in size, but I also want to avoid have a dozen separate replies from me. So each post of mine will often respond to multiple posts by others. Here goes, in chronological order...
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If you assume that we would completely ignore the results of the survey, then you're also assuming we have no desire to make the largest number of users happy. That's just ridiculous, since that would also mean you think we would intentionally undermine the product that we've worked on for years. We're not in this industry to get rich - we could all make lots more money working for other companies, and we’d definitely have to work much fewer hours each week. We do this because we love gaming and want to create something for the hobby. To think that we would intentionally sabotage our own efforts is, frankly, insulting. Quote:
With regards to the other hot-button features – printing and export – neither has been portrayed as an existing part of the product to my knowledge. Both were requested during the Kickstarter and added to the todo list back then. At that time, and ever since, export was acknowledged as something that we would look to address after V1.0 came out and printing was something we’d try to get into V1.0 in a rudimentary manner (which ultimately didn’t work as we’d hoped and was scrapped). They were given an equal place on the todo list with everything else, and we included them in the survey due to the interest expressed in them by various users on our forums. We reported how they fared in the survey results. However, I don’t believe those features can be claimed to have been advertised as an existing part of the product in any way. |
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Consumers are becoming less and less willing to invest the time to prepare games. There has been a huge shortage of GMs across the hobby, and the solution from many new publishers has been to simplify and streamline things. Other publishers have chosen to create game systems that encourage player participation to reduce the load on the GM. Numerous other creative outlets are increasingly available to consumers as direct competition to tabletop RPGs, which further erodes the hobby. There is still a huge interest in the hobby, but RPGs need to become more efficient and engaging to compete. That means the job of the GM continues to get harder. Based on these trends, the focus needs to be on further simplifying the lives of GMs and enhancing engagement of the players. It also means integrating technology into the process to achieve that goal. That’s our vision with Realm Works and what we’re working towards. Our progress isn’t as fast as it could be because we’re taking the long-range view and laying a solid foundation beneath everything we’re doing. That makes everything harder under the covers, but it also means that we’ll be able to accomplish a lot more down the line. We just have to get there. |
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