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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 7661195" data-attributes="member: 73683">I think that's worth examining!Except, of course, that they aren't oppressive in any way, at all. They're doing exactly what they ought to be doing. It's a sort of twisted narrative that's been coaxed into being, here, when you can put forward the idea that a company choosing to simply release products and protect the content in those products somehow qualifies as "oppressive" and a handful of people actually agree with you!Countering that perception with reality.Some, sure! And some of those people have some pretty silly ideas about what qualifies as oppression. Hint: Not being able to steal someone's content and sell it on the internet doesn't let you claim that you're being oppressed!Cool, so are you, as a well-informed individual who does follow this sort of thing online, making sure that these misconceptions don't spread?You are very much in the wrong about WotC not possessing the equivalent of a public relations team. I'm not sure where you got the idea that they don't have one. It would be kind of inconceivable for a hobby game company responsible for, among other things, a wildly popular trading card game with an elaborate organized play structure to not have people responsible for interacting with the public. Now, some of that PR may be handled by an group external to the company proper, but that's hardly uncommon.The reality is that you aren't being told the things you want WotC to tell you because they aren't interested in telling them to you.Why? Why do they have to do this? We don't have the right to demand that of them, and it is simply not conscionable for us, as fans, to hold their decision not to lay their plans out to us as evidence of "oppression". You're essentially saying, "Yeah, they're not in the wrong, but public perception is that they're in the wrong, and I'm not going to bother correcting that perception until they meet my personal demands." How is that okay?Or we can stop drawing conclusions. That's an option! It really is! I know it's tough to consider, but most people do it for most companies most of the time!But no, gamers are passionate. And our passion entitles us to hound companies for information, even though we have a storied history of being irresponsible with that information when it's given to us. And when we're not told the things we want to hear, it's totally okay for us to assume the worst as a way of punishing WotC for keeping that which we are entitled to from us.It's in "humanity's nature" to do a lot of things, but somehow we've risen above! I mean, can you imagine? "It is in humanity's nature to enslave weaker populations, and nothing will ever change that!" Is that really what you want to make the cornerstone of your moral position?You have a slew of people in this very thread who have somehow managed to tame their inner savage long enough to decide that it's probably not reasonable to look at this situation and assume the worst possible outcome. Are the people around those gaming tables you listened in on incapable of that?</blockquote>

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