D&D 4E 4e previews due in December

[Tharen the Damned]

Ok,

WOC is a big company, they have a lot of emplyees and they can hire freelancers.
They have no time or focus because 4th edition takes so much time? Hell, they are doing 4th since 2 years and should know by now that designing a new game takes a lot of time.
I really do not care for any explanations why they can not put up the WEB content.
Look at Wolfgang Baur, since Dragon/Dungon folded he produced 2 Kobold Quartely magazines while working on the Open Design 160 pages campaign/adventure Empire of the Ghouls and working on various freelance projects.
And he is mainly a one man show!

 

[The Little Raven]

Look at Wolfgang Baur, since Dragon/Dungon folded he produced 2 Kobold Quartely magazines while working on the Open Design 160 pages campaign/adventure Empire of the Ghouls and working on various freelance projects.

2 quarterlies, which is what... 2 magazines in 6 months with content by other writers (at least 4 other writers listed for issue #2)? While working on a 160-page adventure that featured other designers, since it's an open design project (hell, the thing has interviews with two of the designers).

Not to disparage his work, but if this was supposed to impress or show that one man can do more than WotC, then it has failed. This workload is nothing compared to what designing, developing, and launching a new edition of a game requires.

And he is mainly a one man show!

If you discount all the people that write all that material, yeah...

 

[the Jester]

Not to disparage his work, but if this was supposed to impress or show that one man can do more than WotC, then it has failed. This workload is nothing compared to what designing, developing, and launching a new edition of a game requires.

Compare it rather to what posting a few preview articles on schedule requires, rather than developing a new edition of the game.

WotC has been working hard on 4e for years. If they cannot manage a few preview articles, then they shouldn't put ads up that say they will.

 

[The Little Raven]

Compare it rather to what posting a few preview articles on schedule requires, rather than developing a new edition of the game.

Well, when those preview articles could be wrong because you're still developing the game, it's much more work than writing articles for a game that has been in print since 2000. Comparing writing (and not even just writing, since he doesn't write everything himself) for something that has a solid base to writing for something that is in flux is totally different.

WotC has been working hard on 4e for years. If they cannot manage a few preview articles, then they shouldn't put ads up that say they will.

Yes, because things always go exactly as planned. History has never shown us that happens and we have to change and deal with it.

 

[the Jester]

Yes, because things always go exactly as planned. History has never shown us that happens and we have to change and deal with it.

Sure.

The thing WotC could do that would make me, at least, stop complaining about this is really simple: Post an explanation, or at least a retraction. "Oops, sorry, we're not gonna get these previews up on time, sorry!" Really, that would do it for me.

But those previews are still listed as due in the current issue of Dragon. The Nov-Dec issue. Which, you know, isn't yet complete... even though it has gone bimonthly... and even though it's the end of the two months that it is supposed to be for. Like, the last few hours of the two months. And, as near as I can tell, everyone at WotC is off for the holidays.

 

[Oldtimer]

Yes, because things always go exactly as planned. History has never shown us that happens and we have to change and deal with it.

No. WotC has to change and deal with it. They are not. That's the problem.
However you spin it, it a failure on their part.

 

[The Little Raven]

No. WotC has to change and deal with it. They are not. That's the problem.
However you spin it, it a failure on their part.

They could have already changed, since we got articles we weren't supposed to (elves, fractured family). Entirely possible that they changed the production schedule without updating us.

 

[Oldtimer]

Entirely possible that they changed the production schedule without updating us.

You mean, changed the production schedule and then posted the old one on their web site. How come you seem to think this is a positive thing? Or even not a failure?

 

[The Little Raven]

You mean, changed the production schedule and then posted the old one on their web site. How come you seem to think this is a positive thing? Or even not a failure?

I've never suggested it was a positive thing. I've suggested that happens, stuff breaks, people up, and dwelling on it is pointless. Lamenting things you can't change doesn't accomplish anything useful for anyone, including yourself.

 

[Ahglock]

Are you serious? I know my work report for December contains seventeen workdays (though I did take half day off this Friday). Maybe you work less days in the US, but only ten days? I must live in the wrong country.

But even so, the article was published on the 18th. It did promise seven preview articles. We got one so far (a different one). There's really no excuse for that. That's just bad planning.

Impatient? I don't think so.

I got Christmas day off, and I don't work saturday or Sunday. I took Christmas eve off. A lot of people though get Christmas eve, Christmas, new years eve and new years off so they are taking the opportunity to take 2 weeks off for only 6 vacation days. The US isn't known for its generous vacation policies when compared to other developed nations. Some people are lucky though, my friend works for a non-profit that closes the "campus"(though its not a school) down for 2 weeks during this time, my sister works at Stanford university at the Hoover institute and the Campus is closed for 2 weeks so Hoover gets clsoed with it.