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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 5906515" data-attributes="member: 6684958">Sadly, WotC, and most companies, groups or even people rarely do this.  The first big stumbling block that WotC will have is that they will never ask the fans what they like, and never hear what they say, and never understand what they say.  Then you get the problem that the creators with do 'what they think' people want, not what they say they want....as the creators know what people want more then the people do.  But worst of all, I think it's clear that Wotc(Hasbro?) has way too many 'Bob and Bobs' from Office space.  The kind of person who knows nothing about gaming, yet they are hired to 'fix things' and 'make the company money'.  They sit down and show off power point presentations, graphs and make all sorts of wild claims and processes.  And the people in power always fall for it.Just take WotC last couple 'great ideas like 'we won't put out softcover books' or 'you get just a couple hard cover books a year' or 'we won't put out many adventures(as nobody buys them right...)' or the great 'well we will dump this system that has been around for years and make a new system and every one will love and buy it as we will put D&D on the cover.'And you can go on and on: 'Lets destroy and ruin setting X, after all lots of people like the setting and they will love us and buy more stuff if we destroy and ruin the setting' or 'we don't need to edit our work, whatever we print is perfect the first time'.</blockquote>

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