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<blockquote data-quote="Rasalom" data-source="post: 4520265" data-attributes="member: 79054">Whether it’s a true claim or not is irrelevant at this point, because frankly it’s a public perception and reputation that you’ve garnered for yourself here and elsewhere. You’ve been a poster-child 4e fanboy at times, and you’ve lashed out pretty damn harshly against people who have the audacity to impugn 4e or suggest that it might not be the roaring success that you want and you need it to be. The initial sales were good, but beyond that only WotC knows for sure, and unless they’re sharing sales figures with you, you don’t know either. They’ve had a year of horrendous PR, the death of a major investment in Gleemax, and tons of people angry at them for reasons various and sundry regarding the marketing and substance of 4e. All that said, for good or for ill Ari, you’ve hitched your professional star to 4e for a year now. You have a very strongly vested stake in seeing 4e succeed and you’ve come out at times to angrily defend it against anyone that might push more bad PR about 4e in WotC’s direction.&nbsp;People have come to see you as a biased source of information on all things WotC, with too much at stake to say anything negative, and indeed being glowingly positive about it in the face of any negative news because you’ve gone the route of 4e or poverty given you freelance for a living and I suppose you feel loyalty to WotC, or you just hope that being such an ardent supporter and pimp of 4e will send more work your way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rasalom, post: 4520265, member: 79054"] Whether it’s a true claim or not is irrelevant at this point, because frankly it’s a public perception and reputation that you’ve garnered for yourself here and elsewhere. You’ve been a poster-child 4e fanboy at times, and you’ve lashed out pretty damn harshly against people who have the audacity to impugn 4e or suggest that it might not be the roaring success that you want and you need it to be. The initial sales were good, but beyond that only WotC knows for sure, and unless they’re sharing sales figures with you, you don’t know either. They’ve had a year of horrendous PR, the death of a major investment in Gleemax, and tons of people angry at them for reasons various and sundry regarding the marketing and substance of 4e. All that said, for good or for ill Ari, you’ve hitched your professional star to 4e for a year now. You have a very strongly vested stake in seeing 4e succeed and you’ve come out at times to angrily defend it against anyone that might push more bad PR about 4e in WotC’s direction. People have come to see you as a biased source of information on all things WotC, with too much at stake to say anything negative, and indeed being glowingly positive about it in the face of any negative news because you’ve gone the route of 4e or poverty given you freelance for a living and I suppose you feel loyalty to WotC, or you just hope that being such an ardent supporter and pimp of 4e will send more work your way. [/QUOTE]

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