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Originally Posted by justanobody

Who asked them for it, and why are gamers responsible in some way for helping WotC or any other company for something that could have been a huge waste of money?

No one has once said that you should be responsible. Most have simply said, if you don't want to play the game, don't buy it. But don't knock WOTC for doing something with their product just because it didn't go in a direction you like.

Originally Posted by justanobody

Not to pick on the man, but just one example among many and to continue with the same name....

Is it my job to help Scott Rouse in some way because he bought some lemon car and paid to much for it? Do I owe him anything for that to keep food on his table? How about anyone else at WotC?

Do they in some way perform some service that puts food on my table?

We are talking about the entertainment industry here. One false step means life or death. You want your investments secure then you better make sure people wants whatever avenue of entertainment you are wanting.

I get so sick and tired of hearing people talking about the money WotC spent to develop some new thing. It was their money to risk to lose. They will have to take it up with HASBRO should it fails, and with the shareholders.

I owe them nothing, not does any other gamer here; so why should it be made in some way to look as thought every gamer is responsible for WotC making a decision to make something like 4th that had no want or interest in.

So it is childish to think that somehow gamers should be responsible to make sure WotC did not lose those $$ on R&D and are somehow responsible.

"Daddy daddy I broke my new toy I bought and need another one."

That is what I hear anytime someone speaks of how much money WotC sank into creating 4th.

So let's just drop it. I didn't tell them to spend it, and ain't responsible to help them get it back.

They should be doing what they can to get it back the best and quickest way possible. Since the original GSL was so delayed they lost their precious $5000 early buy in. But that would have helped them get it back.

WotC is the ones screwing up as a whole company, and it is in now way the fault of gamers, but the execs at WotC. So again I say let's drop the whole "WotC spent X dollars on something so you should feel bad for them" bit.

I don't. It wasn't my money, and I laugh at people that waste money and shortly after [self censured] because they needed it for something else!

You should have compared to an analogy of WotC raising the price on the second print run of books or something rather than basing it on R&D costs that has nothing really to do with the quarter increase for the cup at 7-11. Like somehow WotC deciding to charge extra for the pictures where they were fre before or something.

This is so totally "huh?" I am not sure anyone said you should feel bad for WOTC because they spent R&D costs on developing a new edition of their game. And if the numbers are truly as they appear to be, WOTC certainly isn't crying about wasted money -- the venture looks like a financial success so far.

Dude, your rant doesn't appear to have anything to do with this conversation. Your post gives the impression that you are upset about something... So, why again are you so mad?