Charles Ryan (and others) out at WotC?

[Glyfair]

http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=19503

So, we've lost the brand manager for D&D?

It's interesting in their "rebutting" any statements they are in trouble they mention their card games are doing well, but don't mention D&D or their book division (the two areas that lost their brand managers). I'm not necessarily reading anything ominioius in that, but it is an odd ommision given who apparently was let go.

 

[Akrasia]

In this day of double-speak, PR people say '...affected by this change and are no longer with Wizards...' instead of '... were fired'. :\

I feel sorry for all those people. Charles Ryan, in particular, was always quite decent about posting here and keeping people informed of his perspective on D&D's condition. It's too bad WotC booted him.

 

[MerricB]

Bizarre. Not sure what to think.

It's probably time for more threads of "the sky is falling".

However, in this case, they may well be right. Getting rid of so many top people does *not* bode well.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Well, I guess it's good that they've added to their capability to stay flexible in the ever-changing hobby market...

...even if some of my friends got canned to improve the company.

 

[MonsterMash]

Latest Press Release from WotC
New Setting: The Falling Sky announced today.

Always hate to see people lose their jobs.

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

Pretty rotten of hasbro to fire people during the holidays. Man, I'm so glad I switched from being a desk jockey to Heating and refrigeration repair. I can only fire myself nowadays.

Hope those guys are ok.



Scott

 

[Glyfair]

Pretty rotten of hasbro to fire people during the holidays. Man, I'm so glad I switched from being a desk jockey to Heating and refrigeration repair. I can only fire myself nowadays.

Hope those guys are ok.

IIRC, the big layoff a couple of years ago was just before the holidays, too. I think it's pretty traditional in the corporate world (preparing things for a new direction at the beginning of the next year).

 

[BSF]

Merry Christmas - You are no longer needed here.

Peter Archer is gone? So what does this mean for the novel open calls?
Charles Ryan is gone and they say this is going to make them able to adapt better?
Two VP's in Marketing?

Kind of weird really. And there are supposed to be 10 others that have been affected? Any chance these are people that have been moved up into positions to replace those that are no longer with WotC? Otherwise this really does look rather gloomy.

 

[diaglo]

IIRC, the big layoff a couple of years ago was just before the holidays, too. I think it's pretty traditional in the corporate world (preparing things for a new direction at the beginning of the next year).

yup, the previous really big layoff was right before the holidays.

they give a severance package so it doesn't seem so bad... but the former employee has to stretch that until they get a new job.

mang, didn't see this one coming from all the news out of WotC. esp from Charles directly.

maybe it was the 100 fan post cards he sent me. i hope not.

and i'm sure he will find a job soon enough. some of the others cut besides Peter Archer... weren't very big on interaction with their customers.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Just as D&D was vamping its marketing operations up and up.

I wonder who the new Brand Manager is gonna be?