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<blockquote data-quote="Nathal" data-source="post: 350899" data-attributes="member: 1809"><p><strong>Boycott</strong></p><p></p><p>In this case, I will not support a company that treats its employees like cattle. These are not ordinary people getting tossed away like wheat chaff...</p><p></p><p>Its damn hard enough making a living from creative work, and a company like Wizards was like one final bastion of such folk. Layoffs happen yes, and a company must survive, but these layoffs can only mean a drastic change in the direction of quality for the game. This action was not done with any thought or concern for the game itself and sure as hell not with any thought of its fans. For the better? If so, I'll eat my hat.</p><p></p><p>The message here is that "brand" is more important than its authors. Bull<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. I will not buy another D&D product until it changes hands and a reasonable number of "old guard" is hired back. I'll write my own game. </p><p></p><p>And who is this that writes of "bitter resentment"? Have no you empathy for these people whose life long dreams and efforts were just swept out the door? Yeah, that's business all right. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> D&D. Excuse my french. </p><p></p><p>~Dan Cross</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nathal, post: 350899, member: 1809"] [b]Boycott[/b] In this case, I will not support a company that treats its employees like cattle. These are not ordinary people getting tossed away like wheat chaff... Its damn hard enough making a living from creative work, and a company like Wizards was like one final bastion of such folk. Layoffs happen yes, and a company must survive, but these layoffs can only mean a drastic change in the direction of quality for the game. This action was not done with any thought or concern for the game itself and sure as hell not with any thought of its fans. For the better? If so, I'll eat my hat. The message here is that "brand" is more important than its authors. Bull:):):):). I will not buy another D&D product until it changes hands and a reasonable number of "old guard" is hired back. I'll write my own game. And who is this that writes of "bitter resentment"? Have no you empathy for these people whose life long dreams and efforts were just swept out the door? Yeah, that's business all right. :):):):) D&D. Excuse my french. ~Dan Cross [/QUOTE]
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