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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5486508" data-attributes="member: 82106">But we don't really have much idea what resources they have. I'm simply assuming that the people over there work hard and what we've got is what they were able to do. It isn't a matter of I think all they can do is crappy, I just figure they've got a staff that isn't enough to deliver what people are expecting them to deliver. I mean look around the boards and everyone wants 100k words of magazine content a month, a new hardback book every month, all super high quality material, a perfect set of tools, etc. and RIGHT NOW. We know that WotC's parent company took a bath last year. They didn't lay anyone off, but that pretty much just says to me that the staff was already at a level that was so bare bones there simply wasn't anything left to trim.Sounds more like a manpower issue than a management issue. If you give me 5 guys and tell me to put out a product that requires 8 guys to put out, guess what I'm not going to put out that product on time. I'm sure not going to manage to get ahead. There's only certain things that are physically possible for people to do. The best manager in the world can only do so much. I mean 2 years ago they seemed to have plenty of content, and they also had more people. If I had to guess I'd guess they were well ahead of things. So yeah, if something went wrong then it was no big deal. Now two years later there's a smaller staff and it kinda looks to me they've burned through whatever backlog they had and they're down to a point where if something doesn't roll in there's nothing in the cupboard to use to cover for it.I mean there's no way to know what the effectiveness of their management is. Maybe they're a house full of idiots over there with a pack of fools in charge. Who knows? Given that the company has been in this business for 20 years I'd be surprised if that was the case, but I sure don't have any answers.The thing is, supposing you're the guy in charge and you don't have enough staff to do all the things you'd like to do, what are you going to do about it? Cut back on stuff you can cut back on and put people onto the most important things. They just canceled 3 books recently. Seems a lot like they're trying to concentrate on the most immediate and important things. Comparisons to what Paizo or someone else did at some time in the past may or may not really have any relevance. Print magazines that can't put out an issue are out of business. With the online stuff the equation is a bit different obviously. It all boils back down to what they can do vs what people expect and will pay for. If they can't do any more than they are doing now, then everyone has a choice of accepting it or going elsewhere. It helps to let them know, but it may not be something they can fix.</blockquote>

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