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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5362398" data-attributes="member: 15651">In all honesty, I don't believe that they are barely profitable.&nbsp; It is much more likely that they are barely exceeding profit margins expected of them by their coporate masters.&nbsp; As they approach the end of the fiscal year, they see that they are not going to make their goals and so need to make changes.&nbsp; They either need to cut costs or increase revenue.&nbsp; Since increasing revenue isn't really an option on such a short-term basis, cost-cutting is the only choice.&nbsp; What it comes down to, is I believe these are short-term decisions and, while there are other choices they could make,&nbsp; none are as expedient as layoffs.&nbsp; Ideally WotC would be able to do long-term planning to reduce costs and increase revenue and not need to maintain this pattern, but the economy and other market forces make that kind of planning not so simple.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 5362398, member: 15651"] In all honesty, I don't believe that they are barely profitable. It is much more likely that they are barely exceeding profit margins expected of them by their coporate masters. As they approach the end of the fiscal year, they see that they are not going to make their goals and so need to make changes. They either need to cut costs or increase revenue. Since increasing revenue isn't really an option on such a short-term basis, cost-cutting is the only choice. What it comes down to, is I believe these are short-term decisions and, while there are other choices they could make, none are as expedient as layoffs. Ideally WotC would be able to do long-term planning to reduce costs and increase revenue and not need to maintain this pattern, but the economy and other market forces make that kind of planning not so simple. [/QUOTE]

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