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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3958454" data-attributes="member: 48965">Hate to be like this, but when you snatch away something people have been happy with and make a big deal about how great your replacement will be...yeah you get judged in the same manner you decided to take the print magazines away, quickly and harshly. Well personally if you've already started off on a bad note with said customers...you do whatever it takes to bring them around to your product.  If that means giving them 3e crunch or whatever until you can pull it together then you do it or you risk loosing your fanbase.  No one said it would be easy but alot of the ill-will was built up by the way WotC chose to handle the magazine situations from the beginning.  I'd rather they not have put themselves in a situation of trying to do too much at one time. Leave the magazines be, if you're not ready to put a proper investment in them.  Honestly they would have got more positive reactions by letting Paizo run it through the time leading up to 4E and taking it over when they were ready.  I'm sorry but I hear "WotC" is a business first and then when it's treated like a corporation by it's fanbase all of a sudden it's the victim.  This is a choice WotC made, no one forced them to take Dragon over when they did or handle it how they have.  If anyting I'm stumped that a corporation wouldn't realize a new edition would be a major investment in resources that would make it hard to do other things.Or maybe I could just not subscribe.  They're trying to sell the customer on something new and untested, after taking away something they enjoyed.  So really it is on WotC to make anyone they want to subscribe believe this is as great as they swore it would be when they cancelled the print magazines.  Just because you're playing 3e now doesn't mean you won't switch over.  There are 6 months left until the 4e corebooks are available, plenty of time to get some 3.5 gaming in before 4e hits.As far as our "oversized expectations"  WotC had a fair amount of influence in shaping those.  The problem is they aren't ready to put up after all the hype and customers are rightly mad.</blockquote>

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