The major changes at WOTC

[Weeble]

Oh No! Here I go! Call me evil. Call me criminal. But instead of saying "tada", I say "Kazaa"

 

[stormdragon]

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Actually Sean, I wasn't suggesting anything of the sort. I was refering to the managment that allowed this (If true ) to happen. I see your people skills haven't changed since you left Wizards.

Oh and good call taking the "How I would run to world" section down from your Homepage. Scary stuff that.

Dumbass, the people that work on the D&D products don't make the decisions for pricing, canceling products, and certainly aren't in a position to funnel company money anywhere. The people who do make those decisions are an order of magnitude more invisible than the people who work in R&D (Anthony Valterra is--I believe--the only one who has made an effort to talk on the internet ... anyone higher than his level probably doesn't even know enworld exists). By suggesting that the R&D people are "socking awary ill gotten gains," you are insulting honest people, directing attention away from those that _are_ responsible, and are being an ass.

Stop insulting the wrong people.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

As a complete lover of maps and atlases I (I still have my Atlas of the Dragonlance world) I am awaiting the Kingdom of Kalamar Atlas.

Wow, another map freak (like me). Cool! First thing I look for in a product is maps--and most of them these days are not chock-full of cartographic goodness! (Many products have good maps, but not are not chock-full of maps.)

And to keep this back on topic.... Wow. My only question is how long did this guy have his hand in the till and how much did he skim? It still amazes me that with all the accounting checks and balances (at least, what should be in place) that this still happens on such a large scale. Unless it was a short term theft, you'd think it would take the collusion of several execs to hide such loss. (Like the Phar-Mor execs who bilked the company out of a over 100 million dollars (this was about 1992)).

Hopefully, the Hasbro-dude will run the business, and let the "industry talent" decide the content and everything will all work out.

And, most importantly, hopefully it won't negatively impact the "publish your world" contest!

 

[Zappo]

Re: Hey Pa, there's a lynching goin' on!

The rat bastard should be hung for dipping into the hobby that I have loved since I was a wee little thing...

By his figgin!

 

[EricNoah]

Guys let's keep this friendly and on-topic, please.

 

[Nikchick]

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By suggesting that the R&D people are "socking awary ill gotten gains," you are insulting honest people, directing attention away from those that _are_ responsible, and are being an ass.

Stop insulting the wrong people.

Right frickin' on, Sean.

Nicole

 

[stormdragon]

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Oh Jesus can we lose the canned moral outrage from the Corperate community? Never once did I say R&D was socking away money, nor did I insult any specific WOTC employee or dept. Its "interesting" how certain folks are responding to this.

Right frickin' on, Sean.

Nicole

 

[Nikchick]

"Corporate community"?

Oh Jesus can we lose the canned moral outrage from the Corperate community?

Are you accusing me of being part of "the corporate community" there stormdragon? Me? Corporate?

Bwah ha ha ha ha! RRRRRRRRRRROFL!

I assure you that every single person who knows me (most especially those at WotC) is having a gigantic laugh at that one. I'd express my unedited opinions on corporations, specifically those involved in gaming, but my comments would not be appropriate for anyone's grandmothers (not even grandmothers who hang out on Nutkinland).

I have no doubt that *if* anyone at WotC was "socking away ill gotten gains" the very FIRST people to be directly harmed by that were the people who suffered from the on-going rounds of layoffs and budget cuts, people who lost their jobs because WotC's bottom line was suffering as money flowed elsewhere. That's not "canned moral outrage" stormdragon, that's hand-picked, home grown, organic moral outrage, and I have a freakin' bushel full to share.

Nicole

 

[IanB]

Oh Jesus can we lose the canned moral outrage from the Corperate community? Never once did I say R&D was socking away money, nor did I insult any specific WOTC employee or dept. Its "interesting" how certain folks are responding to this.

Umm... given that your original note included these two lines:

Not to mention some of the attitudes thats been given by ceratin WOTC employees. And all this time several of thesee shining stars of humanity have been socking away ill gotten gains, and screwing us the consumer.

I don't blame them. You draw a direct line between 'attitude' from "certain WotC employees" and the embezzling. Since the only employees of WotC that post here are R&D, pretty much, how could they NOT think you were attacking them?

 

[Ranger REG]

For another thing, do we really want a gamer or a businessman at the top level? CEOs aren't involved in day-to-day operations of running games development, I wouldn't think. Maybe the COO.

Honestly? I want a businessman who is a gamer at heart. I want a competent individual schooled in business but have our desires in mind. Not a straight-up businessman who sees nothing but money and think he can get away defrauding the company's business operation (by funneling the company's profit that could be used to expand more game project, not lining up exec's and shareholder's pockets) that has no choice but to downsize.

While I sincerely hope that Hasbro is not behind this massive fraud operation by a handful of their top-level employees working at Wizards, the damage to their reputation has been done. Coupled that with allegations of price-fixing in the UK, the parent company must seriously undergo a massive restructuring, if they ever want to do business with us consumers again.

And I don't care if Hasbro is the maker of Star Wars toys, although I may ... MAY ... feel sorry for George Lucas, who may be guilty by association with an apparently corrupted business corporation.