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<blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 7675994" data-attributes="member: 63245"><p>Just went to their catalog page. Here's what I saw </p><p></p><p>Out of the abyss- adventure path outsourced</p><p>Princes of the apocalypse - Outsourced.</p><p>Sword coast legends- Developed by another company for wizards.</p><p>Drizzt book - Don't need the RPG team for that. </p><p>Spell storm book - See above</p><p>Dragon + - Basically a news/social media app. I'll concede to this one by hiring on a webddev.</p><p></p><p>Temple of Elemental Evil board game - If this is what wizards is doing and neglecting the actual product, then that clearly explains the lack of released from the core foundation of the franchise. In doing so they are spreading them selves thin over way to many projects. This is the same kind of crap that they did with essentials. It's basically corporate ADD. The lack of focus on a product as is dungeons and dragons is a very bad thing. You just can't manage THAT many projects. So there is one of 2 things happening here. Either they need to EXPAND the team to take on these different projects, or they are incredibly over zealous and ignorant if they think they can get the same high standard quality when their attention is spread around multiple projects. Humans don't work that way. Let's suppose that the core team IS working on some board game and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they are devoting ALL of their time to it.... well that seems kind of fishy If you are creating a new product it would stand to reason you would hire MORE people or at the very least not fire people. It's like saying, "HEY! We are making a big new project(game or whatever)! Oh yeah, and you're fired. It'll help us out tremendously. " </p><p></p><p>Not buying that one bit. </p><p></p><p>So then we have Fantasy Grounds - Outsourced.</p><p>Miniatures - Outsourced.</p><p>Players companion books, which are essentially small rules which Mearls could handle himself along with an editor.</p><p>Lots more books - clearly in the domain of the writers, not the core team.</p><p>Comics- Outsourced to IDW</p><p>More miniatures - outsourced. </p><p>Baldur's gate - Developed by an outside team</p><p>And after that... A whole lot of books which is explained above. </p><p></p><p>So what am I actually trying to look for when you say " Notice what they are advertising"? 99.9% of the things on the site are being done by someone else. Barring the board games (of which I made my point earlier), I see no reason to keep on a staff with no more than .... 3 people. Even then wizards could work with freelancers which would be much cheaper than using full time people. They seem to do that quite a bit actually (When Dungeon and Dragon mags were around, when they rehired monte cook, when they wanted a new setting and Keith Baker made them eberron, etc etc ).</p><p></p><p>TLDR; Sorry man don't see the justification of keeping on hardly anyone. Like I said before, perhaps they ARE working on some sort of internal project that they haven't announced yet..... but I find that hard to believe that they would layoff people so that they could work on their new material. Makes no sense...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evenglare, post: 7675994, member: 63245"] Just went to their catalog page. Here's what I saw Out of the abyss- adventure path outsourced Princes of the apocalypse - Outsourced. Sword coast legends- Developed by another company for wizards. Drizzt book - Don't need the RPG team for that. Spell storm book - See above Dragon + - Basically a news/social media app. I'll concede to this one by hiring on a webddev. Temple of Elemental Evil board game - If this is what wizards is doing and neglecting the actual product, then that clearly explains the lack of released from the core foundation of the franchise. In doing so they are spreading them selves thin over way to many projects. This is the same kind of crap that they did with essentials. It's basically corporate ADD. The lack of focus on a product as is dungeons and dragons is a very bad thing. You just can't manage THAT many projects. So there is one of 2 things happening here. Either they need to EXPAND the team to take on these different projects, or they are incredibly over zealous and ignorant if they think they can get the same high standard quality when their attention is spread around multiple projects. Humans don't work that way. Let's suppose that the core team IS working on some board game and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they are devoting ALL of their time to it.... well that seems kind of fishy If you are creating a new product it would stand to reason you would hire MORE people or at the very least not fire people. It's like saying, "HEY! We are making a big new project(game or whatever)! Oh yeah, and you're fired. It'll help us out tremendously. " Not buying that one bit. So then we have Fantasy Grounds - Outsourced. Miniatures - Outsourced. Players companion books, which are essentially small rules which Mearls could handle himself along with an editor. Lots more books - clearly in the domain of the writers, not the core team. Comics- Outsourced to IDW More miniatures - outsourced. Baldur's gate - Developed by an outside team And after that... A whole lot of books which is explained above. So what am I actually trying to look for when you say " Notice what they are advertising"? 99.9% of the things on the site are being done by someone else. Barring the board games (of which I made my point earlier), I see no reason to keep on a staff with no more than .... 3 people. Even then wizards could work with freelancers which would be much cheaper than using full time people. They seem to do that quite a bit actually (When Dungeon and Dragon mags were around, when they rehired monte cook, when they wanted a new setting and Keith Baker made them eberron, etc etc ). TLDR; Sorry man don't see the justification of keeping on hardly anyone. Like I said before, perhaps they ARE working on some sort of internal project that they haven't announced yet..... but I find that hard to believe that they would layoff people so that they could work on their new material. Makes no sense... [/QUOTE]
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