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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5486039" data-attributes="member: 59082">LOL. Thanks - and sorry to cramp your style. Fair enough. I get that you're pissed about the PDFs - as I've said, I think it was (and still is) a dumb move on WotC's part.That said, I'm not sure that I would directly link Mearls' article with the PDF Debacle. I mean, I get that he's an integral part of WotC, but to link his article with the PDF Debacle is to essentially say that everything WotC does is Pure Evil, is worthy of distrust and is disingenuous - all because of the PDF Debacle - and that anything that anyone working at WotC says is inherently disingenuous...because of the PDF Debacle.Let's say your good friend cheats on his girlfriend. Does that mean that anything he says after that point about relationships is inherently suspect? Not necessarily. Now of course with WotC it wasn't just the one isolated incident - there was the monstrous GSL, for example, and the pulling of recent products, and the lack of communication going forward, and the DDI trainwreck, etc. At the very least I think it is safe to say that WotC's PR sucks; at worst, they are only interested in making money and are completely dishonest corporate shills. I'll take the middle ground somewhere in between, probably closer to the "at the very least" side. I take it that you are closer to the "at worst" side? My sense is that WotC really has no idea what they're doing. They're floundering. All they know is that they aren't pleasing fans, the D&D fan-base is fractured and they've probably lost a ton of folks to Paizo for good. 4E is not nearly as possible as they had hoped it would be and they don't know how to fix it. In other words, they blew it - and it isn't just because a lot of folks didn't (and don't) like 4E; that's about half of it; the other half is all of the bad PR stuff. I stilldon't see their advertising as being as mean-spirited as you say it was. I can't remember seeing all of it, but to me it sounded rather tongue-in-cheek. As for the onerousness of Mearls writing this piece, I am simply not in a place where I can make a strong judgment either way. I (and presumably you) don't know what goes on in the offices at WotC. For all we know things are tense; there might be different camps within the company, folks that want to offer the PDFs again and abolish the GSL, and folks that care only about pleasing Hasbro and only look at the bottom line. Who knows? I don't, which is why I'm not going to assume that Mike Mearls is a total slimeball and I'm going to take the sentiment of his article at face value and say "Nice article, I agree" while at the same time recognizing that WotC has and continues to make terrible errors in judgment and that I would do things very differently.</blockquote>

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