Dear WotC: Be Blizzard

[FireLance]

You realise, of course, that this means it will never be released?

 

[D'karr]

You realise, of course, that this means it will never be released?

I think that was his point.

 

[Hassassin]

There is late, and then there is LATE! (Diablo3 Im looking at you!)

... And then there is Duke Nukem Forever.

 

[Jack99]

In theory, I agree with this. In practice... I wonder how long D&D can survive without new product coming out. Now that the market for 4e material has been undermined, just how long can they survive without putting 5e out there?

DDI should be able to sustain them for a long time, unless people are already cancelling left and right. I must admit, that I haven't bothered checking.

 

[Andor]

D&D is a single drop in WotC's revenue stream which is driven by MtG and Pokemon.

And even if that wasn't true WotC is now a division of Hasbro which has had some minor success with a few titles you may have heard of like Monopoly.

They are not going broke any time soon, even if d20s become toxic.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

They are not going broke any time soon, even if d20s become toxic.

Nope, but since their policy is not to prop up one arm of the company with profits from another, if d20s became toxic, we'd still have Monopoly but nobody would be employed to work on D&D.

 

[SkidAce]

You don't have to be exactly like Blizzard. Blizzard have never had an original thought in their lives, instead they take an existing concept and perfect it.

While they are good at polishing existing concepts, I think Orcs vs Humans was innovative.

/end tangent

 

[SeRiAlExPeRiMeNtS]

WoTC don't be Blizzard, be linux, Release early, release often

 

[Andor]

WoTC don't be Blizzard, be linux, Release early, release often

That's what an iterative playtest development cycle is for. Until they somehow figure out how to do free, live updates for hardcover-dead tree books that is as close to that model as you're going to get.

 

[nightwyrm]

Yes, by all means. Release a game that requires constant internet connection, even if you just want to play single player.

Can you tell I'm bitter.