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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7699396" data-attributes="member: 7006">I fully expect this hire will have little to no impact on the Dungeons &amp; Dragons game in the short-term, and by the time the long-term comes about that some things in D&amp;D might be changing, we will have absolutely no idea if they were directly related to the hiring of Chris Cooks as President of WotC, or if they were always in the pipeline already.DMs Guild apparently had been in various stages of planning for years.&nbsp; So we can't say any particular hire that occurred during those years directly impacted DMs Guild's eventual release.&nbsp; By the same token... we have no idea what the planning stages of any digital offerings might be, or if/when they are scheduled for release.&nbsp; So we cannot say this hire will or will not matter to it if/when something gets released down the line.By the sake token... even if Cooks' hiring DID directly impact it, it'll be far enough in the future that no one will actually care whether it was due to his arrival at that point anymore.&nbsp; All that will matter is that it happened.&nbsp; I mean, is anyone right now going &quot;Thank goodness 'X' was brought in to the company now that the DMs Guild is in place!&quot;?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; None of us care who is/was responsible for it.&nbsp; So getting excited/depressed by this hiring of Cooks is pretty much unnecessary in my opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7699396, member: 7006"] I fully expect this hire will have little to no impact on the Dungeons & Dragons game in the short-term, and by the time the long-term comes about that some things in D&D might be changing, we will have absolutely no idea if they were directly related to the hiring of Chris Cooks as President of WotC, or if they were always in the pipeline already. DMs Guild apparently had been in various stages of planning for years. So we can't say any particular hire that occurred during those years directly impacted DMs Guild's eventual release. By the same token... we have no idea what the planning stages of any digital offerings might be, or if/when they are scheduled for release. So we cannot say this hire will or will not matter to it if/when something gets released down the line. By the sake token... even if Cooks' hiring DID directly impact it, it'll be far enough in the future that no one will actually care whether it was due to his arrival at that point anymore. All that will matter is that it happened. I mean, is anyone right now going "Thank goodness 'X' was brought in to the company now that the DMs Guild is in place!"? Nope. None of us care who is/was responsible for it. So getting excited/depressed by this hiring of Cooks is pretty much unnecessary in my opinion. [/QUOTE]

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