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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5492649" data-attributes="member: 957">Can you provide an example of what you are talking about?Are you saying that they put financially irrelevant items in financial reports?  Or are you saying that it was financially relevant but just didn't have a big existing dollar value? (for example, they spent little so far, but had anticipated big revenue in the future, now they are no longer anticipating that value.)Just as with the whole "what do 4E sales look like?" conversations, there seems to be a desperate attempt to insist that just because there are remote alternatives, the overwhelmingly likely explanation is not only not "likely" but is not more reasonable an expectation than the long shots.Now, it is certainly possible that, as Morrus suggests, it may have been outsourced with the financial risk on the vendor.  (Just to be picky, that doesn't mean it cost any less, that just means someone other than WotC got burned.)  But 1) if that was the case we are back to it being highly unlikely that it would be mentioned in the financial report and (probably more importantly) 2) the vendor would still own all the code because WotC never bought it.  It would be worthless because of the IP associated with it.  But it would be very out of character for WotC to leave that kind of information under the ownership of a third party.</blockquote>