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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 602266" data-attributes="member: 1457">Sounds like TrizzlWizzl is going for the "Managing Editor" job opening that was posted on WotC's site a while ago. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think Mat's a genuinelly good guy who's been tasked with writing a breezy preview column targeted to unsophisticated WotC customers. And apparently he's doing an okay job at that task. He's not talking to TrizzlWizzl, or you, or me--he's talking to your kid brother, or Bob the brand-new gamer, or Larry the guy who "just got the Internet" thanks to AOL.You, me, and TrizzlWizzl are the type of gamers that want detailed product info. We can get such product info here, or on other boards, or through gaming contacts. WotC knows about customers like us, and knows that we not only *can* find new product info through such backchannel means, we *enjoy* finding product info through such backchannel means. To us, it's just another way we participate in the hobby.So, why would WotC provide detailed product info to us? Doing so would ruin our fun. Instead, WotC will tease and pander to the unsophisticated gamer that browses the WotC site. That's what a corporate site is for. WotC (and Mat) is doing what he should.I mean, c'mon, doesn't everyone here agree that ENWorld (or Nutkinland, or wherever) is for the hardcore gamers, and WotC boards are for the unsophisticated kids? WotC knows this, owns this, writes for this. And slips the juicy tidbits to us, the hardcore, through backchannel means.-z, who isn't surprised when he discovers that something that should be fluff is in fact fluff</blockquote>

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