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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7675551" data-attributes="member: 18182">No they don't. At least, not from my perspective. Is the history of D&D littered with products that were started, but abandoned? Sure. Has WotC, and TSR before them, started down one path and then later changed direction? Sure.The same is true about every other major company, both in and out of the RPG business. Situations change and companies need to adapt. If a particular product is released enthusiastically, but later proves not to be meeting its goals, why would any company choose to continue supporting it? When you cancel a product, inevitably you will disappoint customers who really liked it, but if they are the few to the many, then it's the right call. There are folks out there who LOVED "New Coke".This makes WotC neither incompetent, inconsistent, uncaring, or deserving of a negative reputation. We're bordering on fan entitlement here, where we like a product so much we feel an ownership over it that we don't truly have. We demand that we get what we want and on our timetable, and when that doesn't happen, we get upset . . . justified or not.I have a feeling that you and I wouldn't argue over the specifics, there certainly have been plenty of abandoned projects over D&D's 40+ years of history. But I think it's an optimist vs pessimist kind of disagreement (not that it boils neatly down to black and white terms). Half glass full, half glass empty type of situation.I have confidence that Mearls and co. will continue to deliver fantastic D&D content to me for years to come. There will be projects started but later abandoned, there will be changes in direction, there will be decisions made that don't match up with my personal wants and needs . . . but I am very OK with that!Zen and the art of D&D fandom is a book somebody needs to write, IMO! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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