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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2758949" data-attributes="member: 20741">Looking at the seniority of the people axed from WotC, I think this looks like a pure salary dump.In a shrinking market perceived to be in a cyclical downturn, a public company dumps its higher salaried folks perceiving that they have got their best out of them. Time to dig in and await an uptick without having to pay the salaries in the meanwhile.Cynical and mean spirited move - but not original. This appears to be short term management and budget cutting.  In a public company, it is, sadly, par for the course.I guess the twitch reaction is to wish that WotC would just let the D&D brand and IP go.  Sell it off to someone who will make it their core business and not an afterthought. (I would sooooo love Elevation/Bioware/Pandemic to buy the D&D brand and WotC/TSR IP! Though they would not make it their core business either....)That said, there are excellent products being turned out by WotC right now. We have a smorgasbord of rules supplements, tons o' miniatures and even a perceived move towards more adventures.Paizo seems to be making a real go of it. Dungeon's sale continues to pay dividends to the hardcore hobbyists and even Dragon is starting to turn around.So...while it may suck to be a game retailer right now , or a publisher, or a former employee of WotC - I'm not sure that those of us on the consuming end of things have ever had it better.</blockquote>