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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 5305975" data-attributes="member: 2732">But just to also clarify, I think the reason why I brought up that note about Ryan was not to specifically criticize his viewpoint, but to emphasize that it's important to get other viewpoints, as many as you can, to portray an accurate history.  The only reason I mentioned that "he's been wrong" is to emphasize that he, like many other people, make mistakes or miscalculations or don't predict everything.Ryan's notes was taken from a company outsider (to TSR) trying to do an objective analysis on the failure of TSR, so it has a lot of good points and it doesn't suffer from a usual bias you'd find from the person who makes the decisions.  But I would also think it would be prudent to hear from others, especially those who actually worked there, as well as people who would be involved such as the people who might have been buying the TSR stuff for the book industry.I wish somebody would interview all the people (who are still alive) involved with TSR and WoTC and someday to a really good history of the company.  If they could do as good a job as the 40 Years of Gen Con book, I'd buy that in a heartbeat.</blockquote>