New Management

[haakon1]

Is it time for new management of D&D? I won't waste your time by listing the various controversies since 2007, and different folks have different feelings about them. In general, though, would you prefer D&D to be in different hands?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

This poll definitely needs a lemoncurry option, because there is no option I agree with.

There are probably some things I'd want to improve, but nothing falls under the given options.

 

[DracoSuave]

The game is still being held with better competance than the T$R days. I remember the -old- days.... Wizards is handling the IP just fine these days. When they start suing people on forums for using the term 'Fireball' or start taking successful IPs that people love and whoring them to sell substandard systems -for no reason- then we can talk about mismanagement.

Fact is, WoTC is still very much a company that listens to its customers. Since 4th edition they've opened up playtesting so that anyone can do it, and they -listen to the feedback.- They still gather information on what people want, and they still cater to the customers' desires with their core products. They're still -very much- a customer-oriented business, and very much a fan-friendly business, and a lot of that -is- trickledown from Hasbro.

They have certain bottom-line responsibilities, but as sellers of a creative medium, they -have to- give their customers what they desire to buy, otherwise they do not sell.

In the TSR days, Pathfinder and Hackmaster wouldn't just be almost impossible to print, they'd have been sued into non-existance.

 

[Relique du Madde]

This pull needs an edition war option. I keeed! I keed!

 

[Keefe the Thief]

I love that there is one "its okay" and three "it sucks - on different levels" options for this poll.

I admit, i choose option one not because i totally believe and support it, but because it was the option least removed from any kind of objective reality (that is, if something like that can exist on the internet for long without being eaten by Lolcats).

 

[ProfessorCirno]

I love that there is one "its okay" and three "it sucks - on different levels" options for this poll.

I admit, i choose option one not because i totally believe and support it, but because it was the option least removed from any kind of objective reality (that is, if something like that can exist on the internet for long without being eaten by Lolcats).

Oh come on, the last option is hardly "It sucks." I agree that there should be a "I think the was a fairly bad decision but it was a bad decision," but the last option is clearly just for being silly.

 

[Nymrohd]

I love that there is one "its okay" and three "it sucks - on different levels" options for this poll.

I admit, i choose option one not because i totally believe and support it, but because it was the option least removed from any kind of objective reality (that is, if something like that can exist on the internet for long without being eaten by Lolcats).

This poll stole my bucket!

It certainly is not a time for new management. Not because the current management does everything perfect or even well but because this is simply a bad time for a business that works entirely on long-term projects to be switching management.

 

[S'mon]

Yeah, if it were up to me I'd give the IP to Dan Proctor (Labyrinth Lord, Mutant Future) - maybe license OD&D and Holmes to James Malinewski of Grognardia.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Considering we have not heard WOTC's plans for PDFs in the future, not even a press release about what they plan, I think all the rage is premature. Yes, it was bad PR, but bad PR loften leads to change. I think WOTC knows what people think about them, at least the overly vocal minority on boards such as this, and now they have the chance to tell theire side.

Personally, that is what I am waiting for.

 

[Mark]

This poll stole my bucket!

Get back to us when it starts moving your bookmarks.