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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5531958" data-attributes="member: 82106">Without knowing the performance of the unit that 4e is part of we have no way of knowing. OTOH Hasbro is a big company and they may not see massive cutting as the proper response, and they have resources to avoid doing that if they don't want to. Remember, Hasbro is the type of company that, while they have many perennial products, is used to constantly investing in its properties, creating new things, etc. Toys go in and out of fashion constantly. They may well not be terribly quick to disband R&D groups that are going to provide what sells next Christmas, even if they have to operate in the red for a while. They are more likely to look carefully at the management of groups where they missed having a good return last year and asking if those groups are working on the right thing.So, it might mean changes in 4e group's management, but unless they suddenly decide the whole product is hopeless, can't make money, and not worth supporting anymore it is likely that overall things won't change a lot (they are already cut down a lot from 3 years ago after all). They might just change the product mix for 4e. In fact oddly enough, they already seem to have done that...I'll take a wild guess and say that not much will change in 4e land until 2012, but that they may be doing less ambitious projects and consolidating things. So DDI will probably get a lot of attention, but we probably won't see a bunch of other print products announced. Maybe one or two, but they won't go back to 2009's crazy release schedule. Nor will they go back and start releasing more Power * books.</blockquote>

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