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<blockquote data-quote="AndrewDB" data-source="post: 5358335" data-attributes="member: 67594">Damned if they do, damned if they don't I guess. That will show them!When WOTC told us about things they were working on in the past, and pieces didn't come to fruition, players got pissed and &quot;stopped investing.&quot; Rightly so I think. Now WOTC do their best to keep things hush hush until the project is finished; but stuff inevitably squeaks out because people are people, not robots. Now players get pissed that they aren't told more and &quot;stop investing&quot;.IIRC the person who originally started the excitement over tools development was a third-party individual dancing around their NDA, not WOTC. IIRC the only thing coming from WOTC was a programmer blogging that they were working on a big online tools project. Those are the two pieces that seem to be feeding the rumor mill most.There should be nothing special about a tools programmer working on tools projects, and big is a relative term, so why should the programmer think twice about telling us this? But the programmer's statement is picked up in conjunction with the NDA dancer's statment and we try to make something out of it. Something that may be true, but I'm not sure WOTC is the real problem here, or even if we can say there is a problem.That doesn't mean we can't blame WOTC though. This is the internet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AndrewDB, post: 5358335, member: 67594"] Damned if they do, damned if they don't I guess. That will show them! When WOTC told us about things they were working on in the past, and pieces didn't come to fruition, players got pissed and "stopped investing." Rightly so I think. Now WOTC do their best to keep things hush hush until the project is finished; but stuff inevitably squeaks out because people are people, not robots. Now players get pissed that they aren't told more and "stop investing". IIRC the person who originally started the excitement over tools development was a third-party individual dancing around their NDA, not WOTC. IIRC the only thing coming from WOTC was a programmer blogging that they were working on a big online tools project. Those are the two pieces that seem to be feeding the rumor mill most. There should be nothing special about a tools programmer working on tools projects, and big is a relative term, so why should the programmer think twice about telling us this? But the programmer's statement is picked up in conjunction with the NDA dancer's statment and we try to make something out of it. Something that may be true, but I'm not sure WOTC is the real problem here, or even if we can say there is a problem. That doesn't mean we can't blame WOTC though. This is the internet. [/QUOTE]

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