WotC Anyone Else Tired of the Wizards Bashing?

[SteveC]

The Pinkerton Agency action is a masterclass on what not to do if you want positive public relations. Especially with gaming nerds who likely know them from a roleplaying perspective. I was around a group of older friends at a party and they called shenanigans on actually calling the Pinkertons. I won some bets on it. Dealing with someone getting cards that should not be released in this way can result in positive PR for a company, and then you can do this. My mind actually boggles at this.

I really do agree that it is getting tiresome attacking WotC but the easiest way to stop it is not do things like this.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I previously start a thread about the Extra Life product, in case folks didn't know about this monster booklet yet: WotC - New Extra Life benefiting children's health: Misplaced Monsters

 

[Vaalingrade]

The last six months suggest that WotC isn't organized enough to intentionally release an Extra Life product in an attempt to improve their image during yet another self-inflicted crisis.

The timing is coincidental.

Well that's the thing. It's not even the company doing it. People are doing it on their behalf. People the company could not give a microscopic damn about.

 

[bedir than]

The theory behind jumping all over social media with protests is that it makes it likely the social media team will report back that people are furious and it also publicizes the actions the folks are angry at, in a place other customers are likely to see it.

Now, it's not clear how much those reports of social media protests matter -- we're probably years away from finding out what swayed WotC in the OGL case -- but it's not an illogical approach. It may be futile, but no one outside WotC has any way of knowing.

That said, protesting on an Extra Life post may be in poor taste, but that's up to each person to decide.

They're not piling on the corporate account, which would make some tiny amount of sense.

They're piling on the individual employees, the people who actually interact with the kids at Seattle Children's Hospital

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They're not piling on the corporate account, which would make some tiny amount of sense.

They're piling on the individual employees, the people who actually interact with the kids at Seattle Children's Hospital

They're piling on both. I saw the book first announced on the main account, where the same thing is happening.

I have a Facebook page with a public-facing component and sometimes do face heat from the public over what my company does. It sucks. But I also have the option of not interacting with people that way, and just posting to friends only, which is invisible to the public.

Personally, I wouldn't go yell at a random WotC staffer for this, but if I were a random WotC staffer, I might also decide that interacting with the public is something to put on hold for a few months, until management gets its collective head dislodged from where they appear to have gotten it stuck.

 

[Raiztt]

Hm

 

[payn]

The Pinkerton Agency action is a masterclass on what not to do if you want positive public relations. Especially with gaming nerds who likely know them from a roleplaying perspective. I was around a group of older friends at a party and they called shenanigans on actually calling the Pinkerton's. I won some bets on it. Dealing with someone getting cards that should not be released in this way can result in positive PR for a company, and then you can do this. My mind actually boggles at this.

I really do agree that it is getting tiresome attacking WotC but the easiest way to stop it is not do things like this.

Well the guy who made the decision is an ex-Pinkerton so doesnt exactly think like y'all....

 

[Aldarc]

It seems like WotC should be held to higher standards and ethics for their actions as a corporation than the actions of random private individuals on the internet.

 

[payn]

...before this thread gets closed maybe we should talk about other items here?

Are folks really blaming DADHAT box office slump on WotC?

 

[Pedantic]

...before this thread gets closed maybe we should talk about other items here?

Are folks really blaming DADHAT box office slump on WotC?

Pretty sure it's just losing to Mario.