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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 3481356" data-attributes="member: 40359">As for being a larger company or a publicly traded one, for starters, what they do with D&D would have very little impact on how Wall Street and the FTC view Hasbro. Besides, companies frequently "reset expectations", so it's certainly not unheard of and wouldn't cause a world of hurt. But, yes, of course they need to run it through their lawyers and PR, but there's nothing preventing them from doing so before the cancellation announcement. Morrus shouldn't have had to field questions for them to answer and pass through their lawyers and PR department. They should have done on their own weeks before the announcement was made.Plus having worked on (coding and project managing) internet projects ranging from little $10K to the multi-million dollar range, if WotC is planning to release something the size of what they are hinting at anytime in 2007 and don't have a solid enough idea to go public of when it will be done or what the features it will include, then it's a project doomed to be over budget, late, and/or failing to meet expectations. The "design and plan as we go" method is one of most common mistakes in managing a large project, but it's also so common that there's really no reason not to see it coming. They should know what the final product will look like and when it can be done (with padding for the stuff that does pop up, of course) before a single line of code has been written. Considering how long ago they started talking about this and hiring for it, I would hope they have requirements gathering and design done or at least well on their way by now.If they are unsure enough to announce when it will be done (or even when they can tell us more), then I fear for the success of the project and smell another Master Tools in the works. But I'm willing to give it a chance, it's just I don't personally think there's any adequate excuse for how poorly they handled this announcement. I'm not an MBA or in charge of any company, but I've spent enough years in the corporate world to see a PR blunder right in front of me. It's a recoverable one, but still a PR blunder.</blockquote>

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