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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 6545657" data-attributes="member: 957">Under what I would consider "normal" circumstances, I would completely agree with you.To cancel a product is going to be a disappointment.  But if you need to cancel, so be it.  But this is in the context of "there is hardly anything to cancel".  They have canceled 100% of the non-adventure products so far.  There isn't any one thing that is really a problem.No products out yet is not a problem just a few months after the release.Canceling ONE book is not a problem.Light release schedule is not a problem.Playing things quiet is not a problem.When you start stacking them all together.  It becomes a problem.They don't get criticism when they do communicate.    (aside from the whole "it is the internet thing, but you have to just roll with that no matter what)They get notable criticism for communicating and then failing to live up to their communication.  If they are completely lost right now, they should spend the next three months in radio silence figuring things out.  There will be complaints, but so be it.  But once they have things figured out they should start communicating the things that they have worked out (building hype and anticipation) while finalizing those products and laying the groundwork for the NEXT thing they will announce.  There will be bumps along the way.  But if they establish hood, reliable communication, the occasional bumps will be accepted with the "normal" level of grumbling, not the "this justifies just being quiet criticism."If we take for granted that they WANT a very light release schedule with the real goal of maintaining the brand then they should be talking it up MORE  because hype is how you maintain brand.If we reject that theory and think they want to make money on D&D as an RPG, then they should be building hype for things to sell us.It looks like they are in chaos.  Maybe they are in chaos.  That would be bad.  Maybe they have their act together and just are not reflecting that publicly.  That is still bad.</blockquote>

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