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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6299779" data-attributes="member: 7006">Actually... the PR department is doing exactly what they should be doing... preparing announcements for a worldwide release to the general public.  A general public of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of potential players-- not the couple hundred ridiculous message board readers who have been scouring and speculating for months on end about when the game would be released.Does the Disney PR department gear its advertising towards the dunderheads on Ain't It Cool's message boards that have been picking apart Guardians of the Galaxy information for a year and a half?  No.  Because those people already know everything they need to know.  So the PR roll-out is for everyone else.  And the new edition of D&D is the exact same thing.  They don't need to let US know anything, because we can't actually even do anything with the information even when we get it.So great.  A handful of us on these message boards like EN World and RPG.net now know the game is being released on July 15th (before the rest of the world has found out through a full PR deluge.)  Now what?  Have our lives now CHANGED at all having received this information?  What is now different for any of us than how we were three days ago?  As far as I can tell... nothing is different.  We know a date.  Wonderful.  Fantastic.  But we can't DO anything with that information.  So knowing that date doesn't actually matter.  We can't buy the game early.  We can't see any parts of the game that we wouldn't already see through L&L articles and the like.  There is literally NOTHING different having now been given a potential date for release.  And thus... I can't help but shake my head at everyone who's been getting their panties in a bunch for months on end because WotC didn't give out a release date.WotC could have made their announcement of the game on the day of release, and NOTHING would be different that it is now.  We would all get into our cars, drive to the store, and buy the game.  Which is exactly what will happen even though we got the date yesterday.  And is exactly what would have happened had we gotten the date back in like January (which so many people have been demanding here on the boards.)  And is exactly what would have happened had they made an announcement of release on the day the open playtest closed.Nothing is different.  Nothing has changed.  So having gotten the info through a 3rd party channel rather than WotC PR means absolutely jack.</blockquote>

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