D&D 4E Quotes on 4e pre-GenCon

[FourthBear]

I know that after the announcement of 4e, there were a number of threads on subject of WotC lying about the release of 4e. One of them was from this year's D&D eXperience and another from Winter Fantasy, as I recall. From what I remember from the outcomes of those threads, it seemed as if the actual quotes from WotC people were not nearly as strong as made out and that there was one out-and-out misquote.

Someone has mentioned this belief that WotC lied about the 4e release on another messageboard (RPGnet), but I can't find any of the threads here or the discussion of quotes anywhere. Can anyone point me to a good summary of this issue? It's certainly led to a lot of hard feelings and it would be nice to have some kind of a summary, one way or the other.

 

[BryonD]

I'm certain someone will give you a better reply, with links.

But most of the "they lied" claims (if not all) have been well debunked.

I know that a big one was "we aren't working on 4E" and it turned out the real quote was "We aren't working on a 4E that requires minis."

 

[FourthBear]

I did find a link to the ENWorld discussion on the Scott Rouse quote:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=204662

That seems to be the major point of contention.

 

[delericho]

The various quotes were all on the 4th Edition news page, although I don't know if they're still there or not, and if they are they might be buried in amongst all the other information (there's a lot there now).

However, I did a fairly extensive search for the various quotes that I thought contained the WotC 'lies', and came up empty. The "we're not working on 4e" was actually "we're not working on a 4e that requires minis", and the "all future announcements will be at D&D Experience" wasn't as clear-cut as that.

More information can be found at my post on the previously-linked thread: here.

I hope that helps.

 

[Henry]

Yeah, most of the "YOU LIED!" Discussions tended to turn into, "Well played, Mr. Bond... Well played" discussions.

 

[Scott_Rouse]

Link to RPGnet post?

 

[Beckett]

Link to RPGnet post?

I think it's this one: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=359284

 

[Geoff Watson]

Though some of the WotC people knew they'd been misquoted/misinterpreted and didn't clear things up until after 4e was announced.

Geoff.

 

[FourthBear]

Thanks for the link, Beckett, that's the one I'm referring to. I wasn't sure about making a direct link, as I didn't want to set up some kind of forum vs. forum thing. Things seem to have died down, so no such worries, I think.

 

[DaveMage]

Yeah, most of the "YOU LIED!" Discussions tended to turn into, "Well played, Mr. Bond... Well played" discussions.

Some of us still feel quite deceived....