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<blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 5466802" data-attributes="member: 47839">Opportunity cost. When you have limited resources (and WotC has limited resources) you have to weigh the cost of doing one project vs. another all the time.Its all well and fine to say, &quot;just do more!&quot; And I think WotC has finally realized that by doing just that in the first 2 years of 4e quality suffered.So, they are retrenching. Dragon and Dungeon Magazine content now go directly through R&amp;D for a full on development pass before they see print. The choice was improve quality (and reduce errors needing errata later) at the sacrifice of speed. This is going to increase the lead time for magazine content.As a consequence of R&amp;D's increased work load, something had to give or the quality problem just gets shifted somewhere else. That give was reducing the number of books being put out this year.They are not going to hire a bunch of people to gear up because D&amp;D is not making Pokemon or Magic the Gathering money.Personally, I would rather they slow down the schedule and put out some great products rather than keeping the fire hose wide open and pumping out crap.My two coppers,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saracenus, post: 5466802, member: 47839"] Opportunity cost. When you have limited resources (and WotC has limited resources) you have to weigh the cost of doing one project vs. another all the time. Its all well and fine to say, "just do more!" And I think WotC has finally realized that by doing just that in the first 2 years of 4e quality suffered. So, they are retrenching. Dragon and Dungeon Magazine content now go directly through R&D for a full on development pass before they see print. The choice was improve quality (and reduce errors needing errata later) at the sacrifice of speed. This is going to increase the lead time for magazine content. As a consequence of R&D's increased work load, something had to give or the quality problem just gets shifted somewhere else. That give was reducing the number of books being put out this year. They are not going to hire a bunch of people to gear up because D&D is not making Pokemon or Magic the Gathering money. Personally, I would rather they slow down the schedule and put out some great products rather than keeping the fire hose wide open and pumping out crap. My two coppers, [/QUOTE]

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