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<blockquote data-quote="pedr" data-source="post: 7676670" data-attributes="member: 33464"><p>If a company's employees feel that every word they use will be scrutinised for a perceived inconsistency and lead to a new focus on something the company "has done wrong" then they will stop using new forms of communication to interact with fans and fan media. </p><p></p><p>I am sure that it is annoying to feel that someone in a company is trying to refute a criticism which one has made of it, by clarifying something which the criticisers appear to be wrong about. But if the reaction to that feeling of annoyance is to attack the wording of the message then there will be consequences. The criticism in this thread seems to be focused on whether something is "outsourcing" rather than the criticism being "WotC isn't really involved in these adventures so they can't take any credit for them and we can be rightfully critical of WotC for abandoning support of the TRPG". </p><p></p><p>Jeremy Crawford's casual, Twitter-limited response to try to engage in good faith with those he assumed had a genuine misunderstanding over the role of WotC in these products is a good thing for many who read it or who read Morrus's write up of it. We would be worse off if he hadn't done it. But this thread hasn't been about the substance of that clarification - about whether those critical of what they perceive as outsourcing have a better view of WotC's involvement now. It's been about whether what WotC is doing "counts" as not outsourcing. </p><p></p><p>And this focus on tangential matters seems to happen every time (the "can't cancel an unannounced book" keeps getting brought up, despite what Mike Mearls was saying being entirely accurate - WotC didn't announce a book despite it being clear that they were considering and preparing for it, so cant "cancel" it, and players got everything WotC wanted to publish from that product for free and yet the criticisms remain!). So the foreseeable effect is that WotC employees may stop communicating. And I don't think any of us want that, so everyone has to choose to stop doing the things which will lead to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pedr, post: 7676670, member: 33464"] If a company's employees feel that every word they use will be scrutinised for a perceived inconsistency and lead to a new focus on something the company "has done wrong" then they will stop using new forms of communication to interact with fans and fan media. I am sure that it is annoying to feel that someone in a company is trying to refute a criticism which one has made of it, by clarifying something which the criticisers appear to be wrong about. But if the reaction to that feeling of annoyance is to attack the wording of the message then there will be consequences. The criticism in this thread seems to be focused on whether something is "outsourcing" rather than the criticism being "WotC isn't really involved in these adventures so they can't take any credit for them and we can be rightfully critical of WotC for abandoning support of the TRPG". Jeremy Crawford's casual, Twitter-limited response to try to engage in good faith with those he assumed had a genuine misunderstanding over the role of WotC in these products is a good thing for many who read it or who read Morrus's write up of it. We would be worse off if he hadn't done it. But this thread hasn't been about the substance of that clarification - about whether those critical of what they perceive as outsourcing have a better view of WotC's involvement now. It's been about whether what WotC is doing "counts" as not outsourcing. And this focus on tangential matters seems to happen every time (the "can't cancel an unannounced book" keeps getting brought up, despite what Mike Mearls was saying being entirely accurate - WotC didn't announce a book despite it being clear that they were considering and preparing for it, so cant "cancel" it, and players got everything WotC wanted to publish from that product for free and yet the criticisms remain!). So the foreseeable effect is that WotC employees may stop communicating. And I don't think any of us want that, so everyone has to choose to stop doing the things which will lead to it. [/QUOTE]
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