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<blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 3484777" data-attributes="member: 22162">Even when everyone is being civil, this can often be an unfriendly place for a WotC employee. We as a community can sometimes be very harsh and critical of WotC. I'm always amazed at how quickly some members can post when any new product is announced or released how disappointed or uninterested they are in that product. Reviews of the latest releases can be harsh at times as well. I wish I could search to drag up a few examples.Maybe they get the harsh spotlight because they're the 800-pound gorilla. I don't know.Maybe WotC staffers read the boards and take note, but they could also have decided that regardless of what they do there will be a few threads hailing the decision and a dozen threads decrying it as the deathknell for the game.I also agree with Umbran that a WotC staffer can't just post here like the rest of us can. We read their posts as different, as somehow more &quot;official,&quot; so when they log on and browse the boards they do so as a representative of their company, not as some guy who likes to play D&amp;D and has a few minutes to spare as he sits at his workstation. What's worse, we as a community sometimes expect them to justify or clarify the business decisions of their company. That's a great deal of pressure to deal with.But as to whose responsibility it is? That's a tough one. Ultimately everyone is responsible for their own posts, but I can see how a few hot topic threads can quickly make it feel like entering enemy territory for someone who works for Wizards.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="atom crash, post: 3484777, member: 22162"] Even when everyone is being civil, this can often be an unfriendly place for a WotC employee. We as a community can sometimes be very harsh and critical of WotC. I'm always amazed at how quickly some members can post when any new product is announced or released how disappointed or uninterested they are in that product. Reviews of the latest releases can be harsh at times as well. I wish I could search to drag up a few examples. Maybe they get the harsh spotlight because they're the 800-pound gorilla. I don't know. Maybe WotC staffers read the boards and take note, but they could also have decided that regardless of what they do there will be a few threads hailing the decision and a dozen threads decrying it as the deathknell for the game. I also agree with Umbran that a WotC staffer can't just post here like the rest of us can. We read their posts as different, as somehow more "official," so when they log on and browse the boards they do so as a representative of their company, not as some guy who likes to play D&D and has a few minutes to spare as he sits at his workstation. What's worse, we as a community sometimes expect them to justify or clarify the business decisions of their company. That's a great deal of pressure to deal with. But as to whose responsibility it is? That's a tough one. Ultimately everyone is responsible for their own posts, but I can see how a few hot topic threads can quickly make it feel like entering enemy territory for someone who works for Wizards. [/QUOTE]

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