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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5421952" data-attributes="member: 94022">The problem here Ryujin is that you still haven't said how simply taking the products off the release schedule is not the same thing as altering the release schedule.  The very nature of taking a product off the release schedule is, in fact, altering the release schedule as its now different.I suppose they could say "We hope to release book X at some point, but not sure when that will be."  Thing is though, that will ALWAYS be true about ANY unreleased product.  If WotC and/or Hasbro believes that there's a market for a particular product so as to make it profitable, they will release that product.  Sure, WotC has made missteps in the communication arena, much like pretty much every company has from time to time.  But, one of the biggest, and most consistent, complaints is about "broken promises".  At least this way, there is no additional "promise" (explicit, implicit, imagined, or otherwise) to be broken.  The fact of the matter is, much of the time, companies just do not have sufficient information.  WotC can't, for example, tell us when 5th Ed. will be released.  They simply do not know yet.  We all know that 5th Ed. will be released.  In fact, from an economic standpoint it pretty much HAS to be released at some point.  The fact that it is not on the current release schedule though doesn't mean that it is not coming, nor that there's a promise that it won't come.I'm not saying that WotC is perfect.  Far from it.  However, we are making Mountain ranges out ant hills here.</blockquote>

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