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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7658662" data-attributes="member: 15700">Well, it is, just not so much when making this particular comparison, for reasons you point out.But back on topic, I think it's also worth pointing that in most businesses, you get paid for the work you're doing, not the work you did.  So while 5e seems to have a had a really good release, it makes zero sense to retain all of the employees now that the work is done.  You "reward" the employees by paying them a good wage and benefits for the work they are doing.  But they aren't on a royalty contract to my knowledge, so if there's no work for them to do now, it doesn't make sense to keep everyone.Anyone who's worked for a corporation usually can see this stuff coming a mile away.  I work in banking, and when the market crashed in 2008, everyone knew that new applications were dropping significantly and thus there was no need to keep a huge staff of underwriters and loan processors.  The work simply wasn't there.  Can't blame the company for that, nor the inevitable layoffs that occured.  It's no secret that WoTC was going to a light release schedule, so after the big 3 books were done, it should have been pretty clear to the WoTC employees that there would be a restructure.  Especially since it appears they are outsourcing much of their adventure path stuff.Not taking away or belittling how much it sucks for the employee, of course.  Just trying to keep things in the proper perspective.</blockquote>

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