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<blockquote data-quote="Sammael" data-source="post: 3484465" data-attributes="member: 4475">1. If you think that Hasbro corporate lawyers would have allowed WotC to pull a stunt like that just to help their &quot;friends&quot; out, than your view of corporate politics is a lot more rose-tinted than mine.2. Paizo HAD to make the announcement, because of their obligations to advertisers. Furthermore, if they waited until the very last minute to make the announcement, they would have likely been forced to file for bankruptcy, which would have looked EVEN WORSE for WotC. This way, WotC can at least hope that most of the vitriol will be forgotten by the time DI is launched.3. Speaking as an IT professional*, if WotC cannot provide any sort of information on the DI four-five months prior to its supposed launch, than the launch is either not going to happen, or the DI will be launched in a terribly unfinished and incomplete state. I can say this with 99% certainty.*I work as a senior software engineer in a small IT company which has a 100% success rate on project delivery (not a single project was canceled since the company's founding in 1995, which is a rarity in IT), and we know a thing or two about project management and deadlines.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sammael, post: 3484465, member: 4475"] 1. If you think that Hasbro corporate lawyers would have allowed WotC to pull a stunt like that just to help their "friends" out, than your view of corporate politics is a lot more rose-tinted than mine. 2. Paizo HAD to make the announcement, because of their obligations to advertisers. Furthermore, if they waited until the very last minute to make the announcement, they would have likely been forced to file for bankruptcy, which would have looked EVEN WORSE for WotC. This way, WotC can at least hope that most of the vitriol will be forgotten by the time DI is launched. 3. Speaking as an IT professional*, if WotC cannot provide any sort of information on the DI four-five months prior to its supposed launch, than the launch is either not going to happen, or the DI will be launched in a terribly unfinished and incomplete state. I can say this with 99% certainty. *I work as a senior software engineer in a small IT company which has a 100% success rate on project delivery (not a single project was canceled since the company's founding in 1995, which is a rarity in IT), and we know a thing or two about project management and deadlines. [/QUOTE]

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