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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8893909" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Who get's fired? Almost certainly nobody who deserves to.I think they have done and will continue to do irreparable harm to the brand, but that it wont be tangibly clear very soon how great that harm is. The probable success of what looks like a pretty good movie at the end of March and/or a much anticipated Baldur's Gate 3 late this Summer (both things that actually have relatively little to do with WotC, are overwhelmingly the work of creative people at other companies, and whose appeal goes beyond people who know much at all about the table top game, much less the OGL) will further obfuscate the erosion of loyalty to the core product. Between such things and management being able to blame drops in sales on &quot;people just putting off purchasing until OneD&amp;D comes out&quot; (or some such) I think the people strangling the good will out of D&amp;D will cling on to their jobs for years to come if they feel so inclined (and I'm sure the people destroying D&amp;D are amongst the best compensated over at WotC). Then OneD&amp;D will come and even if its a failure it will still have strong numbers at the outset. And years down the line when its sales are in the doldrums our bad actors can presumably just tell the fancier suits at Hasbro or its board of directors &quot;whoops, I guess the late 2010s tabletop fad just naturally ended&quot;.Giant corporations aren't actually particularly good at running businesses, they can just afford to fail a lot more than everyone else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8893909, member: 6988941"] Who get's fired? Almost certainly nobody who deserves to. I think they have done and will continue to do irreparable harm to the brand, but that it wont be tangibly clear very soon how great that harm is. The probable success of what looks like a pretty good movie at the end of March and/or a much anticipated Baldur's Gate 3 late this Summer (both things that actually have relatively little to do with WotC, are overwhelmingly the work of creative people at other companies, and whose appeal goes beyond people who know much at all about the table top game, much less the OGL) will further obfuscate the erosion of loyalty to the core product. Between such things and management being able to blame drops in sales on "people just putting off purchasing until OneD&D comes out" (or some such) I think the people strangling the good will out of D&D will cling on to their jobs for years to come if they feel so inclined (and I'm sure the people destroying D&D are amongst the best compensated over at WotC). Then OneD&D will come and even if its a failure it will still have strong numbers at the outset. And years down the line when its sales are in the doldrums our bad actors can presumably just tell the fancier suits at Hasbro or its board of directors "whoops, I guess the late 2010s tabletop fad just naturally ended". Giant corporations aren't actually particularly good at running businesses, they can just afford to fail a lot more than everyone else. [/QUOTE]

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