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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5499625" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, I admit to being puzzled about what it is they ARE doing over at WotC. The programming group is obviously hammering away on stuff, but it is kind of hard to understand what the development people are actually doing. We don't seem to be getting articles so far, there are a few other products on their schedule but presumably HoS is a done deal and probably off to the printers already. The Feywild book is obviously coming, along with the Shadowfell boxed set, etc, but it seems like they were managing to put out a good bit more stuff with the same number of people, and better stuff, last year. As for 'hiring freelancers', well they have been using them obviously, as Klaus can attest amongst others. OTOH if they have a very small budget for that then maybe there's really the main answer there. In the past they were forking out a lot of cash for outside work. Without that resource available we are just seeing what basically the core people can put out on their own without much additional help. I don't exactly how many people they have in their dev group that are focused on 4e stuff specifically. I don't know how that compares to what Paizo has for manpower either. Somehow I really doubt that the WotC people are less productive than the Paizo people or that they are just sitting on their butts. Maybe they have some as-yet-unannounced big project they're all hammering on. Or they are just reduced to a low level of manpower and doing everything they possibly can. Heck if I know. Overall it seems to me that there's a big difference between the two companies. WotC seems to spend a lot more time working on big new things. Paizo seems to spend most of its time putting out another book, adventure, whatever that is pretty much more of the same kind of stuff they did last month. Not saying one is better than the other, but they are different approaches. WotC has a more varied product lineup. Paizo has a lot of similar stuff. If you like the stuff Paizo is producing and that's the kind of stuff you want, then they're doing it right. If new interesting cool stuff of different kinds is more interesting, then maybe what WotC is doing looks better. It seems to be a matter of taste to me. It is pretty obvious both groups know how to do their jobs. I mean if Paizo hires an ex-WotC guy, well that kind of tells us they don't think WotC is staffed with fools and lard-asses. They are just different companies doing different things.</blockquote>

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