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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5428689" data-attributes="member: 82106">Eh, all you have to have is different people with different agendas and plans. One guy replaces another. He has to pretend to keep to whatever plan already existed, needs to placate this or that person for whatever reason. Or it is keeping your options open in some fashion. I've seen a lot of stuff go on in big companies. Been on both sides of it. Certainly indicates to me there are divergences of opinion on what the plan is, but not necessarily that the ship is sinking. If the ship was really sinking I'd think you'd NOT launch a new CB and MB and VTT, but just keep up the low level of support to the existing ones for instance. In any case we're the black hole of accurate info here. We'll probably never know until 5 years from now when some of these guys are out and care to talk about it. Well, it might have made sense to someone. Of course it wouldn't make a lot of sense to anyone that knows much about D&D since the PHB1 is pretty much done and you can stick a fork in it already. Of course corporate could quite easily have come down with something like that. Again I think it points to my theory that there is just a level of disagreement within WotC and different people are going at cross purposes. Obviously someone wanted Heroes of Sword and Spell out there, or at least thought it would sell well enough to be worth publishing. Obviously someone either decided that was not true or someone else decided to weigh in and pull it. The key question would be which side was Bill Slaviczek on? Is he calling these shots and running things in that product line or is it someone else either pulling strings with higher ups or the higher ups themselves lowering some boom/meddling? We will NEVER know, unless someone starts leaking gossip and that doesn't seem to happen much over there.</blockquote>

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