Recent content by Tao

The idea of purchasing vminis was nixed a long while back, after there was a fairly substantial public outcry against it. I doubt that the DRM coding would really have been a holdup either, since they already do pretty much the exact same thing with Magic Online (which is also programmed in...

Yeah... the WizOs are now being folded into Customer Service as a full time position. We don't take calls, but we do handle some of the emails (specifically, ones related to the boards). There's been a lot of shake ups and its been a rough year all around for some of us. The Admin team was...

The CM/CS debate on the WotC forums is a matter not at all related to this issue. It's fairly public record that I have disagreed with it in the past, but again, I don't have the advantage of setting policy. Once a decision is made, I have to follow along with it, even if I am privately trying...

Honestly, around here I am only posting as a D&D fan (who happens to work for WotC). I'm not an official spokesperson for Wizards of the Coast in any way. I don't have the ability to give out any information that would be otherwise unavailable to anyone that was willing to ask or dig around...

Mud, that's actually one of several different (tangentially related) problems being worked on. There are also some issues with integrating the PHP coding of the forums and the ASP coding of everything else and maintaining a single session for both. There's also an issue with the archiving...

FWIW, I am exactly as my name here would indicate: WizO Tao. My actual name is Matthew Lee Myers, and I was originally hired by the former head of the admin WizO team (-Ras, aka Hydragon) to help launch Knowledge Arcana magazine and to redesign parts of the front end of the boards and the...

Pirate, I thought I had been clear in directing my statements, but I can see how I might have caused confusion. Thanks for stopping in to clarify. Moderating can be a thankless job, and I apologize for causing a ruckus. It was not my intention.

One last post, them I am done (I am a glutton for punishment)... In the case of the message boards, which do not generate any revenue, they can't evaluate their worth in that manner. The only objective way they could evaluate it is how many people love it (pssh... not likely, but indirectly...

I am not trying to dictate anything or pressure anyone. Morris is free to talk as he would like. This is his home court. I simply said that I would expect a greater level of professionalism when talking about people that he used to work with, and that if his intention was to make his voice...

I am sure that you never react more favorably to people who aren't calling you "morons", and that you give a calm and rational evaluation to people who are insulting you. Most people, however, tend to respond better to respectful, well-reasoned statements than they do to insults. This isn't an...

Audience is really irrelevant in this matter. He is speaking publicly as a representative of one company about the employees of another. When that is the case, there is a certain level of professionalism that should be maintained. If the ENWorld site were to go down for maintenance...

You're well within your rights to disagree. However, as someone who is currently working for the company in question and who desperately wants the situation to be resolved, I am simply stating the obvious: Rational, well stated, and impartial complaints have more weight in the evaluation of a...

Like I said, his assessment of the situation was a good one. However, publicly using words like "moron" and "sucks" to describe what is essentially a competitor and former employer is considered unprofessional at best. It is one thing to make a professional assessment of a situation. It is...

First of all, considering that (to my recollection anyways) you've worked fairly closely with the WizO team in the past, I would have thought you'd have a bit more professional courtesy than that. I can't speak for everyone in the company, but I can speak for my own handling of situations...

Tiles and minis are a definite investment: not only of money but also in storage space and preparation time. Some people, such as myself, really enjoy the element that they add to the game. For others its not a big deal.