I don't even know if I wish them future-success any more.
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I've been a customer for a long time, I've given them a lot of money, but all I'm left with now is non-functional software and a growing resentment bordering on more negative feelings. Their utter disdain for their customers, as is demonstrated by their communication habits, clearly articulates how they feel about people.Literally hundreds of books have been written, starting in the 1970s, about why their practices are guaranteed to fail. I do this for a living, and their habits and practices wouldn't qualify them for a junior engineering role. They're bad engineers who produce bad software.They still sell it though, and selling a non-functional product is the province of scammers and other despicable characters.
Everything they've done since Classic has been semi-functional, incomplete garbage designed to extract the low-hanging cash and nothing more. it has been a long time since they've produced and supported a decent product, so they consistently fail. They are always trying to trade their current customers for future customers.The example of the people they hired, relocated and then fired shows their lack of character.When they produce software that doesn't work, they don't accept responsibility - they blame individual employees and fire them.They sell products they don't deliver and don't intend to deliver: look at the Shadowrun content packs they haven't delivered.I have to say that, from my experience, they're an awful company, run by awful people. But my experience is definitely not the same as many or most people. If there’s an alternative for Pathfinder 1e/2e or Starfinder with equivalent pricing and that’s kept up to date, and were I in your situation, I’d probably switch to that alternative.Īs it stands, I enjoy programming the 5e stuff, as I get to see every monster, item, subclass, etc. If that were the case for 5e HLC, I would have switched to D&DB years ago. With HLO, my understanding is that you have to pay for your sourcebooks individually, and you cannot do custom content. The actual cost is in the time I have to put in to program everything. My $35 for HLC + the 5e SRD is all I’ve ever had to pay for digital 5e. The only reason I use Hero Lab Classic over D&D Beyond is simple: cost. So I’m used to having no support from LWD. *Even those are years behind, with no sign of them planning to catch up. And even bug reports I’ve sent in have been declined, as the function doesn’t appear in the SRD and thus they see no reason to fix it. Everything else, outside of a few 3rd party books*, is all user-created content.
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With 5e, LWD only supports the free System Resource Document the free version of 5e that anyone can download and use. I don’t use HLO or Pathfinder I use it for 5e, so my experience may be different from yours.