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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 1439019" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>I can say with some confidence that, yes, the press release on the Skullport site is fake.</p><p></p><p>While I can accept that the site admins might have trimmed off the obligatory self-aggrandizing blurbs at the end of every press release ("Wizards of the Coast has been producing high-quality gaming product since blah, blah, blah. Hasbro has blah, blah, blah." If you've seen actual corporate press releases, you know what I mean.), there are two things that convince me that this was put together by an amateur:</p><p></p><p>1) No press release put out by a publicly-traded company in the 21st century would fail to include the company's stock ticker (HAS in this case, since Hasbro trades on the NYSE).</p><p></p><p>2) The press release asserts that Hasbro's stock jumped five points based on the "exciting announcement". The last time Hasbro's stock moved anything close to five points in a single day was when the stock <em>lost</em> nearly five points after their second-quarter 2000 announcement that weakness in their licensed STAR WARS line (following the disappointing Episode I movie) and FURBY talking pet portended lower earnings for the rest of the year. (<a href="http://www.mimitchi.com/html/furbn135.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mimitchi.com/html/furbn135.htm</a>) The only time in the past decade I can find where Hasbro's stock gained five or more points in a single day was the day that Hasbro publically rejected an offer to merge with Mattel - January 25, 1996. (<a href="http://www.marketplace.org/shows/1996/01/25_mpp.html" target="_blank">http://www.marketplace.org/shows/1996/01/25_mpp.html</a> - search for 'hasbro' to find the story)</p><p></p><p>So yes - the press release is a hoax. That doesn't mean that someone in WotC isn't thinking about D&D 4.0, but I doubt it's Jonathan Tweet, and I doubt whoever it is plans to say anything public about it for quite some time.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 1439019, member: 17607"] I can say with some confidence that, yes, the press release on the Skullport site is fake. While I can accept that the site admins might have trimmed off the obligatory self-aggrandizing blurbs at the end of every press release ("Wizards of the Coast has been producing high-quality gaming product since blah, blah, blah. Hasbro has blah, blah, blah." If you've seen actual corporate press releases, you know what I mean.), there are two things that convince me that this was put together by an amateur: 1) No press release put out by a publicly-traded company in the 21st century would fail to include the company's stock ticker (HAS in this case, since Hasbro trades on the NYSE). 2) The press release asserts that Hasbro's stock jumped five points based on the "exciting announcement". The last time Hasbro's stock moved anything close to five points in a single day was when the stock [I]lost[/I] nearly five points after their second-quarter 2000 announcement that weakness in their licensed STAR WARS line (following the disappointing Episode I movie) and FURBY talking pet portended lower earnings for the rest of the year. ([url]http://www.mimitchi.com/html/furbn135.htm[/url]) The only time in the past decade I can find where Hasbro's stock gained five or more points in a single day was the day that Hasbro publically rejected an offer to merge with Mattel - January 25, 1996. ([url]http://www.marketplace.org/shows/1996/01/25_mpp.html[/url] - search for 'hasbro' to find the story) So yes - the press release is a hoax. That doesn't mean that someone in WotC isn't thinking about D&D 4.0, but I doubt it's Jonathan Tweet, and I doubt whoever it is plans to say anything public about it for quite some time. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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