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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wayne62682" data-source="post: 5541147" data-attributes="member: 40455">The thing is... and I don't mean to offend anyone, WotC has shown in the past few years they really have little to no clue what they're doing, so many of us don't have any reason to trust what they say, ever.  Just before 4E they couldn't get their IRC chat working properly, and rather than fix it they just scrapped the whole thing for like 2 years.  They redid the forums when 4E came out with Gleemax, and that turned into garbage after a month or two and was eventually killed off.  Half the promises from the 4E launch were either never delivered at all (meaning they were vaporware and marketing lies) or were delivered half-assed and barely working.  Honestly, I like the company but for such a leading company in the industry it's absolutely horrible to do half the things they do.  Their new chat room, for instance, is total garbage and barely anyone uses it; a far cry from the olden days I remember of having 30+ people in the chat and pickup games going on and contests and everything.  Even their books haven't improved - there's still errata and outright wrong rules and shoddy editing the second the book hits the shelves; that's downright inexcusable IMO for a large company.  I would expect some mom-and-pop nobody retailer to have a crappy website with crappy forums and lousy support and terrible editing, not a multi-million (billion?  I don't think they're that big) dollar company that is claiming to be the #1 RPG publisher in the world.</blockquote>

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