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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4127229" data-attributes="member: 18280">OK, I see what you were saying.  And, I won't argue that it might have seemed that way to some; this doesn't make it true.  Nor does it necessarily seem as though WotC doesn't view customer input as a chore now.  The mishandling of the 4e announcement, for example, wouldn't have happened (IMHO) had WotC viewed listening to its customer base as anything other than a chore.  Some of the early 4e comments come across very much as "Whatever you may say, or whatever you may want, this is what is happening."  I can't recall any TSR gaffe that was even remotely close.EDIT:  I also don't think that TSR failed to recognize a viable market; I just think that, compared to the competition, their collectable games were simply not as good.  I personally enjoyed early Spellfire, but it spiralled out of control, and they had to print a book to tell you how to interpret the rules on the cards.....and the book was also contradictory!  Dragon Dice was, I think, a last ditch effort to grab part of the collectable market when it became painfully obvious that the TSR card games couldn't compete with Magic: The Gathering.As far as Mr. Dancey's "facts" (according to Mourn); I will note only that Mr. Dancey doesn't make the assertation that his opinions are facts, and leave it at that.RC</blockquote>