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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9575047" data-attributes="member: 18">Only Mike does, and presumably some people at WotC.We don't know, because it wasn't announced until it had, by WotC's own admission, been the case for some time, and they never specified exactly how long IIRC. Ray Winninger had taken over D&D for quite a while before he got "introduced" to us.We can guestimate, but that's the best we can do. Mearls got into apparent (and I say "apparent" because he seems to suggest all was completely fine here, but it sure looked like it) in Feb 2019. Vanished from the internet. In what March or April 2020, it was revealed that Ray Winninger was now in Mearls' old role. In May 2022, WotC finalized buying DnDBeyond, which apparently been in the works for many months, so presumably started in 2021 sometime.The 3D VTT for 5E was sorta-announced in 2022 I believe, correct if I'm wrong - it was Cynthia Williams' project it seems, but she's also left.So there's like three years or so where WotC apparently went from "HELL NO" to DM supporting stuff to "HELL YES, put 250 developers on this, costing probably several the budget of the D&D team!". Is that unusual in a corporation? Not really, no. I've seen pretty similar happen.Absolutely. And Mike writes like he went straight to MtG, but based on what WotC represented to us, and I think on his own LinkedIn, though I'm not going to check because some people get suuuuuper weiiiiiird about LinkedIn like it's not public or something, was that first he moved to like "D&D brand control" (I forget the exact phrasing, but this is stuff like linking up with Larian), which was a promotion in theory, and then he moved to MtG. We don't know which is true, like if Mike is just using an abbreviated version of events here (no criticism if he is, I don't always explain every single small move of my career either), or if in fact he went straight over and the brand stuff was just a side-gig at the company.But yeah not only was there not an announcement, which was weird as heck, they didn't announced that Ray Winninger had taken over for several months maybe even a year or more after he did, which is just irregular as hell for a corporation unless something unfortunate has happened (and even then it's a little unusual in my personal experience). And Ray was wildly popular, because he was saying all the right things. Then he got the boot in some form (I sure he "wasn't fired" either, but again at that level, no-one is "fired" the same way us peons are, they take gardening leave or they find another role or they just resign, hopefully with a golden parachute).</blockquote>

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