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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4390563" data-attributes="member: 43019">I sorta wonder if this poll should have been just about the WotC D&D RPG side of things.Cause pretty bluntly, D&D is just a minor part of what WotC does. They've got Magic the Gathering, Maple Story, D&D Minis, Star Wars Minis, Axis and Allies Minis, Avalon Hill, various board and card games, tons of other games that have come and gone (Dreamblade, etc), books, etc. So, I can't speak on a few of those product lines due to sheer inexperience: I really like 4e. It has some bumps, of course, but I'm extremely happy with how things are moving for D&D as a ruleset.I really like D&D tiles. I mean, this is a seriously awesome product.I'm a bit worried about the printing quality of their book products (smudged ink, flimsy paper, etc).I'm pretty unhappy with the trend in D&D Minis of late, but I really love the product itself. If they can restore the average quality to where it was a few sets ago, I'll continue spending quite a lot of cash on them.I really like the Gleemax Game Table - and I think I'll be buying some of the games I've played on there. Check out Vegas Showdown or Robo Rally if you haven't, though.The Gleemax Blogs are in a sad, sorry shape. I wish I knew what their actual plans were for this product. I think it's mostly suffered from neglect - it absolutely needed resources and it didn't get them because it wasn't a high enough priority (and I can't fault that evaluation). Will it someday? Who knows. It's actually gotten a lot of bug fixes, but only after scaring away 90% of its traffic.Their forums and website in general are in a pretty scary shape. They're actually very actively working on this, but in the meantime things are unstable. There are aspects of D&DI that I'm almost positive are purely waiting on the upgrade to a new website infrastructure before they can go up in any usable fashion.D&DI being late is hardly something to mark the company down for. I mean, if they were charging money, sure - but at the moment they're just not putting out something we didn't have before. Oh well.I know this next statement is a bit blasphemous... but I like the new Dragon better. It may be in part because of the new system shinies, but quite bluntly I was about to let my subscription to Dragon end when Paizo announced that Dragon was dying. I wasn't finding it useful enough for me and I literally had multiple issues unread. I'm checking wotc's website regularly for new updates to Dragon and I read them at work. I snapshot cut out sections to make handouts or monster sheets for adventures. I love getting playtest classes and such months and months before the books come out. Etc. If WotC delivers the online game table that I saw with an easily usable interface with the preloaded adventures they've talked about (published modules, Dungeon, RPGA)... then I'll be ecstatic. I will _cheerfully_ hand over money, because that will be an invaluable resource for me to use for online and tabletop play. Period. If they don't, I don't lose anything so I can't really mark them down.Personally, I've been extremely happy with everyone at WotC that I've personally dealt with. They've been people I would like to call friend and can respect. After discussions with Mike Mearls, Jonathan Tweet, Jennifer Paige, Mike Lescault, and others - I really wish I were out there in Seattle and could actually just play games with these people. I'm hoping that in online play I can. After reading posts from some of the higher up folks like Ken Troop, I can empathize with the problems they're facing. It makes me sad to see how much some of the _people_ get attacked out here on the net.Anyhow, I'm not going to vote. As someone who has volunteered for a while for WotC, I feel too close to the discussion (or bought), but I do think that some of the extreme votes are really not being very honest with this poll. Not surprising, though.</blockquote>

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