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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8587922" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Not to my knowledge. There were a LOT of reasons, but I don't think that was one. The big ones were</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lorraine abusing the contract with Random House to use it to pay for current bills by creating more products than demand warranted. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, as the saying goes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Which also contributed to paying for and making contracts for products for the following year, not allowing them to react to any market changes for a year</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Inability to pay their printers, which led to them selling their building to said printers with the extra caveat that TSR would not be allowed to use any other printer (which really sucked when said printers could only print so much and couldn't meet demand)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Refusing to pay their top talent what they were worth, driving them away (Salvatore, Weiss, Bruce Nesmith (yes, Lorraine drove out the guy who would be responsible for Skyrim--ouch).</li> </ul><p></p><p>Lorraine saved the company from Gygax and the Blumes. And according to most everyone who worked for both, the employees much preferred working for Lorraine (according to the interviews Riggs had done). I'm guessing because they were actually getting paid. But she also made some really, really dubious decisions. This is a woman who bragged about getting a band removed from performing at Berkley when she was there. That band she had kicked out? The Jimmie Hendrix Experience. And she felt that was brag worthy. That tells you a lot about the kind of person she was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 8587922, member: 15700"] Not to my knowledge. There were a LOT of reasons, but I don't think that was one. The big ones were [LIST] [*]Lorraine abusing the contract with Random House to use it to pay for current bills by creating more products than demand warranted. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, as the saying goes [*]Which also contributed to paying for and making contracts for products for the following year, not allowing them to react to any market changes for a year [*]Inability to pay their printers, which led to them selling their building to said printers with the extra caveat that TSR would not be allowed to use any other printer (which really sucked when said printers could only print so much and couldn't meet demand) [*]Refusing to pay their top talent what they were worth, driving them away (Salvatore, Weiss, Bruce Nesmith (yes, Lorraine drove out the guy who would be responsible for Skyrim--ouch). [/LIST] Lorraine saved the company from Gygax and the Blumes. And according to most everyone who worked for both, the employees much preferred working for Lorraine (according to the interviews Riggs had done). I'm guessing because they were actually getting paid. But she also made some really, really dubious decisions. This is a woman who bragged about getting a band removed from performing at Berkley when she was there. That band she had kicked out? The Jimmie Hendrix Experience. And she felt that was brag worthy. That tells you a lot about the kind of person she was. [/QUOTE]
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