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<blockquote data-quote="Balsamic Dragon" data-source="post: 260491" data-attributes="member: 2433">Question for Anthony:Are the general opinions on this board at all representative of what WOTC believes the average D&amp;D consumer feels?&nbsp; Do you and other WOTC employees believe that our feedback is useful to your business?If so, then despite the stupid metaphor and unkind labelling, rants like this are helpful because they get people riled up and those people then post their opinions on what they want to buy (or will not buy).&nbsp; See, I get the sense that most of the people on this board (which is somewhat paradoxical), feel that their opinions are in the minority.&nbsp; That's probably because we are so used to being minority consumers in the first place (being gamers and all).&nbsp; So a lot of the fuss that gets stirred up from time to time is because we feel like we need to yell and scream so that we will be counted and our opinions will matter.&nbsp; Or maybe we sometimes feel like our opinions will never matter and we just want to yell and scream to relieve stress <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We all know who wrote the initial rant and why and the fact that it was a rant.&nbsp; However, it points out two valuable pieces of information:First, we, as D&amp;D gamers, have an unprecidented amount of feedback and contact with the industry that supports our hobby.Second, we have very little trust that this industry will listen to us and produce products that we like, despite proof time and again that they can and want to and will.&nbsp; Our biggest fear is that we are being treated by WOTC like we are not important.&nbsp; And our biggest failing is that we wrongly assume that WOTC is stupid and doesn't care about its customers.Balsamic Dragon</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Balsamic Dragon, post: 260491, member: 2433"] [b]Question for Anthony:[/b] Are the general opinions on this board at all representative of what WOTC believes the average D&D consumer feels? Do you and other WOTC employees believe that our feedback is useful to your business? If so, then despite the stupid metaphor and unkind labelling, rants like this are helpful because they get people riled up and those people then post their opinions on what they want to buy (or will not buy). See, I get the sense that most of the people on this board (which is somewhat paradoxical), feel that their opinions are in the minority. That's probably because we are so used to being minority consumers in the first place (being gamers and all). So a lot of the fuss that gets stirred up from time to time is because we feel like we need to yell and scream so that we will be counted and our opinions will matter. Or maybe we sometimes feel like our opinions will never matter and we just want to yell and scream to relieve stress :) We all know who wrote the initial rant and why and the fact that it was a rant. However, it points out two valuable pieces of information: First, we, as D&D gamers, have an unprecidented amount of feedback and contact with the industry that supports our hobby. Second, we have very little trust that this industry will listen to us and produce products that we like, despite proof time and again that they can and want to and will. Our biggest fear is that we are being treated by WOTC like we are not important. And our biggest failing is that we wrongly assume that WOTC is stupid and doesn't care about its customers. Balsamic Dragon [/QUOTE]

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