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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5424957" data-attributes="member: 7006">Except you gave no evidence to show why some of the things you mentioned were actually true, or in fact necessarily a bad thing.Taking Dragon and Dungeon in-house had a specific and worthwhile reason... making sure product produced for it had been designed and vetted by the R&D department. You can't use the Character Builder without a subscription to DDI.  So what?  Why should you be able to?Did the firings at WotC have any appreciable effect that those of us outside the company can actually point to it and say "if this person was still here, this bad result X wouldn't have happened"?  Or is it just people who like certain designers don't get to experience a "Dungeons & Dragons" product from them anymore?The "controversial" production of 4E sold many more books than the last gasps of 3.5 books they had produced.  So moving to 4E was necessary for WotC from a cashflow point of view because there was nothing left for them to produce on the scale they needed as a very large game company.  While a small company like Paizo can live on the smaller scale of product moved by remaining focused on 3.5... WotC could not.  Dunno why that's so hard for people to accept, but it's true.  *EDIT*  I should actually say I believe it's probably true, since I have no actual evidence that compares sales of late 3.5 books vs early 4E books and it's more common-sense speculation on my part.I could go on... but the point is that your list of things were just items that you yourself did not like.  They aren't empirical fact, nor even backed up with evidence to support why what YOU don't like is in fact actually bad.  So as far as WotC is concerned... it IS just white noise of one person's personal disfavor.  And when you have a forum full of threads of people just spewing lists of things they don't like about the game or the company without any indication about what is actually wrong or bad... it's much less draining on your sanity to just ignore it if you are a small company, or hire community supports to do it for you if you're a big one.</blockquote>

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