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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveMage" data-source="post: 4746405" data-attributes="member: 10447">When TSR was failing in the mid-to-late 90s, reports released to the public by "insiders" was that financially things were great and that TSR was doing very well.  IIRC, designers were usually left out of the financial situation "loop".To be clear, I'm not saying that your friends are lying - but I think it should be considered that if things were bad, upper management at WotC may not share accurate info with them for fear that such bad info could leak out and cause a public perception of failure.  (Now, if Greg Leeds is one of the friends you are refferring to, then I may change my response.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  )Granted, it's a no-win situation for WotC, as even if they really are doing well, many (inlcuding cynics like myself) probably wouldn't believe them.  Past events, however, have me concluding that it's really not a good idea to take WotC at their word (e.g., DDI promises, OGL/GSL promises, updating of late 3.5 products to 4E ruleset promises, etc.).</blockquote>