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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4923682" data-attributes="member: 22779">Look, every single one of those blogs and whatnot are still online.  Can someone please show me where WOTC went out of their way to either be overly critical or insulting of anyone's playstyle OR 3e?  Can anyone actually back that up with quotes other than "Oh, remember that thread?"I mean, when we had that "cloud watching" blog post, people freaked.  People went ballistic.  How dare they say that we don't have the full picture.Then cooler heads went back and read the blog and asked for exactly what was so bad about the blog post.I remember the reply - critics actually accused WOTC of going back and revising the blog post - of editing the blog post after the fact.  When it was proven to be DEMONSTRABLY false, people kind of slunk away and the issue died.  (It was demonstrable due to Way Back Machine and the fact that the "objectionable" part of the blog was actually quoted on En World and then nothing objectionable was found.)Critics of WOTC were going so far overboard as to claim that it was more likely that WOTC was editing its own blogs to change their message than perhaps people were being a tad thin skinned and reading things that weren't really there.So, a better marketing strategy would have been, "Here's 4e, it might not be better than what you're playing right now but, please buy it anyway"?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Hey, I know I don't have a marketing degree, but, that doesn't sound right to me.</blockquote>

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