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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 371064" data-attributes="member: 6390">OK, let me clarify a few points.Books-They make money, and are a mixture of useless, semi-useful, and useful, so they are a decent product, no problem there.Now, to clarify a few other things.  I understand that Hasbro is all about the bottom line, and I still maintain that because that is their total mantra, and in some ways they are very short sighted about the bottom line, that will result (and is resulting) in mismanagement.  And yes, I have used e-tools, one of my gaming group rushed out and bought a copy.  He's very upset.  Had I bought it, I would have drove to Seattle and gotten my money back.  I do better with PC-Gen and stuff I wrote awhile back.  I didn't mean to sound all X-filey on you with the last statement.  Sure, they probably did it as a PR stunt, but so what?  If someone publically slanders you does that mean you should say:  "Aww, it was a PR stunt." When they want to be your friend, or should you always remain a  little suspicious?   You can disagree all you want, that's your right, but I still feel that Hasbro is mismanaging WotC.  They worry about the bottom line, how to make inferior products and still get top dollar for them.  Do you think that we as the consumer will reap any of the savings that they get for canning these top level people?  If you do, more fool you.  Hasbro makes crap video games.  They did with Microprose, they did before that.  They are still doing it.  What that shows me, is when it comes right down to it, if it isn't a board game, the board of directors, thier marketing, and thier R&D section probably can't comprehend it too well.  While WotC understands the gamer mentality, I serious doubt that Hasbro does.  And remember, just because Hasbro bought the game, doesn't mean things will get better or worse.  There is no real "Mr. Hasbro" just a bunch of people sitting on a board, figuring out how to stuff their pockets full.  Whether or not this will turn out to be the RPG version of Enron or not, only time will tell.</blockquote>

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