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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5428055" data-attributes="member: 177">It is hardly disingenuous to look at the past decade, rather than the past few months.They failed to meet stated goals back with electronic tools in the first days of 3e, and people had similar comments about that then, too.WotC got a new president in 1999, 2002, 2004, and 2008.  They change every few years.  If it was a notable risk, then they've shown themselves to be good at dodging the bullet, rather negating that risk.  And folks have noticed that pattern has been there for years, and found it a bit odd when they didn't match their usual layoff pattern this year.Companies cancel product lines with regularity - WotC (and TSR before them) has done so with every edition change, for example.  Failing to cancel lines that do poorly is a larger cause of concern than canceling them.My only point here, really is only that there's nothing new to any of this.  Maybe WotC is on the ropes.  I don't know.  What I do know is that the conversation here has demonstrated itself to be a poor indicator of imminent collapse.</blockquote>