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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve_MND" data-source="post: 6718586" data-attributes="member: 6801314">Not gonna happen.  Just like any business or large organization, you almost never, ever provide details of why a person was let go publicly, both for the company's and the individual's sake.  That's between them and them only; if Voltramax wants to go about throwing his (understandably-biased) opinion on what happened, of course, that's his decision, but I doubt seriously WotC/Al/Hasbro would bother writing up a rebuttal as to why a random volunteer was let go.That said, i did catch one comment that struck me as absurdly funny in Volt's article: "This quote, 'Encounters is okay, but let’s be honest, it’s a marketing scam and involves as little effort as possible on WotC’s part,' is entirely accurate."Well, yeah, duh.  Who was saying otherwise?  I mean, marketing is not going to come out and say it's a marketing scam, but hey, that's what marketing IS  -- a means of getting you to part with your money for their products.  Organized Play has been part and parcel of the marketing arms of WotC (whether officially or unofficially) ever since they took over the RPGA and began dismantling it for parts, years and years ago.  I honestly wasn't aware anybody didn't realize that already.That doesn't make AL any more or less fun, but let's be honest -- I don't think anyone thought WotC/Hasbro as an entity was doing all this stuff (however minimal it might be) out of the goodness of their altruistic, loving corporate hearts.</blockquote>

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