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<blockquote data-quote="Twowolves" data-source="post: 4749298" data-attributes="member: 18093">Over the past year, it's been one kick in the pants after another from the WotC guys. Dungeon and Dragon dead tree editions gone, massively overhyped on-line support that only half-arsed materialized, &quot;screwing up&quot; the GSL launch (if by &quot;screwing up&quot; you mean it wasn't a deliberate attempt to ice out all the 3PP, and if by &quot;launch&quot; you mean it's actually out there almost a year and a half after it needed to be), promoting 4th ed by slamming 3.X ed (the same edition of which they just spent the last few years singing the praises), and now yanking PDFs with about 6 hours notice to retailers (and nary a word to customers, as if they are an afterthought).... how can anyone really defend this lack of professionalism from THE LEADER in the hobby? It's not like this is a couple of guys in a basement with a mimeograph and a stapler, it's supposedly the industry standard. Come to think of it, the guys in the basement in the 70's were more professional in a variety of ways...Sometimes I wonder if WotC/Hasbro is secretly being controlled by the Dille Trust again.KM, come to the dark side. We have better health insurance. Since the D&amp;D ship sailed out of port with me standing on the pier, my group and I have played my 3.5 Scarred Lands game, a Pathfinder Beta playtest of one of their APs, we've played a couple of Savage Worlds campaigns, and I've recently rekindled my old miniature wargame passions (thanks to AT-43, you know, the game that is doomed to failure because they have non-randomized pre-painted figures, which the DDM guys assured us was impossible to do). Hopefully, the guys piloting the USS D&amp;D will either run it aground and someone else will take over, or it'll crash and burn and a worthy successor will rise from the OGL ashes to save the day, assuming Pathfinder RPG hasn't already done the job for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Twowolves, post: 4749298, member: 18093"] Over the past year, it's been one kick in the pants after another from the WotC guys. [I]Dungeon [/I]and [I]Dragon [/I]dead tree editions gone, massively overhyped on-line support that only half-arsed materialized, "screwing up" the GSL launch (if by "screwing up" you mean it wasn't a deliberate attempt to ice out all the 3PP, and if by "launch" you mean it's actually out there almost a year and a half after it needed to be), promoting 4th ed by slamming 3.X ed (the same edition of which they just spent the last few years singing the praises), and now yanking PDFs with about 6 hours notice [I]to retailers [/I](and nary a word [I]to customers[/I], as if they are an afterthought).... how can anyone really defend this lack of professionalism from [B]THE LEADER [/B]in the hobby? It's not like this is a couple of guys in a basement with a mimeograph and a stapler, it's supposedly the industry standard. Come to think of it, the guys in the basement in the 70's were more professional in a variety of ways... Sometimes I wonder if WotC/Hasbro is secretly being controlled by the Dille Trust again. KM, come to the dark side. We have better health insurance. Since the D&D ship sailed out of port with me standing on the pier, my group and I have played my 3.5 Scarred Lands game, a Pathfinder Beta playtest of one of their APs, we've played a couple of Savage Worlds campaigns, and I've recently rekindled my old miniature wargame passions (thanks to AT-43, you know, the game that is doomed to failure because they have non-randomized pre-painted figures, which the DDM guys assured us was impossible to do). Hopefully, the guys piloting the [I]USS D&D[/I] will either run it aground and someone else will take over, or it'll crash and burn and a worthy successor will rise from the OGL ashes to save the day, assuming Pathfinder RPG hasn't already done the job for them. [/QUOTE]

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