D&D 5E Light release schedule: More harm than good?

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

WorC doesn't need to talk to anyone about anything until they are good and ready to do so.

And then we need to take what they say with an industrial sized grain of salt, because after all it's WotC doing the talking, then wait for the product to ship.

IMO the notion that WotC are not communicating effectively is so much internetz-spawned fiction.

 

[Sailor Moon]

IMO the notion that WotC are not communicating effectively is so much internetz-spawned fiction.

Got any evidence to back up this claim? Why don't you post a few discussions from WotC giving us some info as to what is coming?

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Got any evidence to back up this claim?

It's not a claim. It's an opinion.

Here's another one: the forum experience is vastly better when you first read and digest what people write before responding to them.

Why don't you post a few discussions from WotC giving us some info as to what is coming?

Why ignore everything WotC have done in the lead up to 5E and after its release?

Just because the sky is blue doesn't mean I need to explain that fact to you. Nor does that fact change just because I can't predict the weather.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Right now WotC are now communicating at all about their future plans. Wether or not it's an effective approach is up for debate.

 

[Gecko85]

Right now WotC are now communicating at all about their future plans. Wether or not it's an effective approach is up for debate.

Except for everything they've actually communicated...

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Except for everything they've actually communicated...

Yeah, it's really heartwarming. Bottom line is: we don't know what they intend to release in 2015. That's what I meant.

 

[weldon]

I suspect they are holding back some details so they can coordinate all the announcements across the RPG, neverwinter, licensed products, etc. to create buzz around a cross-media event. One way to bring new players into the RPG hobby would be to catch their attention with something they are involved with (the MMO, for example) during such an event. I don't know if it will work, but it seems like a reasonable idea worth trying out.

 

[Sailor Moon]

I suspect they are holding back some details so they can coordinate all the announcements across the RPG, neverwinter, licensed products, etc. to create buzz around a cross-media event. One way to bring new players into the RPG hobby would be to catch their attention with something they are involved with (the MMO, for example) during such an event. I don't know if it will work, but it seems like a reasonable idea worth trying out.

I would say they are wasting their time in this case then. Focusing on the MMO isn't really going to bring in any more people of a significant number than of they just let the MMO run it's own course and let people drift over if they want to.

 

[delericho]

Why would they have RPG writers working on card games, toys, video games, board games?

Initially because they'll want all their products to tie together and the best people to take the lead on that are their in-house experts - the RPG team.

Once they get into the detail work you're right that the RPG team wouldn't do that - they'd work on the RPG products. But with a team of 7 they have bandwidth for about two products, which was why I suggested an adventure and a setting.

To tie into a movie that's in tied up in legal red tape and at least two years out?

The window of opportunity for cashing in on a movie release is pretty narrow, and it's out of WotC's hands. So their products have to be ready.

Plus, it's not entirely without precedent them spending two years working on a single, really big project.

I think there's a second wave of products coming. Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, for one. Monster Manual II. And they're trying to build up an inventory of online articles, or reinvent Dragon or something.

You may well be right. I did say it was a guess. The only problem I have with the above is that I would expect to have heard something.

that there will be a movie is a given.

Films get stuck in development hell all the time. Whoever wins the case, the D&D movie isn't immune to that; indeed, it's starting off in that state.

I'll agree it's a given when there's a trailer (teaser or otherwise).

 

[Hussar]

Yeah, it's really heartwarming. Bottom line is: we don't know what they intend to release in 2015. That's what I meant.

Don't we?

New adventure path and some odds and sods. That's 2015 done. We may not know everything, but, we do know that the Elemental Princes thing is coming soon. What more are you expecting?