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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 7664016" data-attributes="member: 6701829">What future sales are you even expecting? The only products that have been announced are the biannual adventure paths, which are aimed at a completely different customer base. The people who are vocal about Wizards' lack of communication and product are not the target audience for the adventure paths - I suspect that audience is the casual audience who just needs a sourcebook to base the next six months of campaign off of and little else.Maybe Wizards will put out a FRCS or a Monster Manual II this year, maybe not. Wizards' behavior is not that of a company that is really relying on those products to sell well. At this point the only sales I think they're really concerned about are D&D movie tickets and board game / video game sales.The reactions are pretty overblown, in my opinion. People are working themselves up into a tizzy over the release schedule of Dungeons & Dragons, and it's resulting in people slinging insults at and making nasty about the character of the folks over at WotC. I would indeed characterize that as fanboy outrage that's best ignored.I actually think it's pretty great that people are passionate enough about D&D that they're willing to eviscerate the D&D team the same way they'd rake their favorite sports team's coaching staff over the coals after a big loss.To pursue that metaphor a bit, after several lousy seasons, they've relaunched with a great team to widespread acclaim but are limiting themselves to a couple of exhibition matches a year, and at the same time looking to get the players featured in movies, cartoons and l̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶P̶A̶X̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶v̶e̶n̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ fan appearances.Stop holding the Harlem Globetrotters to the same standard as the Lakers.My apologies if you felt like I was calling you names or otherwise insulting you, that wasn't my intent but if that's how it came across I am sorry.That said, people are acting as if D&D is an ongoing subscription or crowdfunded project that isn't delivering to them what was promised. There's been a lot of snarky comments about "can't cancel things that were never announced", but the fact of the matter is: WotC put out some books. People purchased those books. WotC may or may not put out further books, and have no obligation to let us into their internal discussions about the future of the product line.The level of acrimony over the whole thing is simply not justified.</blockquote>

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