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<blockquote data-quote="Lokiare" data-source="post: 5989595" data-attributes="member: 83996">You can go find the particulars on your own but it basically went like this:Hasbro wanted to buy WotC. WotC said ok on one condition: They act as a separate company with no interference. Hasbro bought WotC. After the first few years Hasbro decided WotC wasn't meeting financial goals with their products, so they used market shares to force a CEO change and sent an upper level manager down from Hasbro to become the CEO of WotC. From then on all decisions were pretty much made by Hasbro.As I said I'll leave it to you to find the sources of this, they are out there and have been researched.Another major problem is that just about every person has been replaced due to lay offs and firings, so the left hand has no clue what the right hand did last time.As far as I know WotC does not have a PR department. If they do, they need to be cleared out.We do know WotC has a legal department because they sent out a slew of Cease and Desist orders to individuals that made better software in a long weekend in their basement than WotC's software department did in 3 years.In other words the D&amp;D side of WotC is pretty much a mess. Think of a city that was just looted and is burning to the ground. That's WotC right now. Maybe they can rebuild, maybe not...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lokiare, post: 5989595, member: 83996"] You can go find the particulars on your own but it basically went like this: Hasbro wanted to buy WotC. WotC said ok on one condition: They act as a separate company with no interference. Hasbro bought WotC. After the first few years Hasbro decided WotC wasn't meeting financial goals with their products, so they used market shares to force a CEO change and sent an upper level manager down from Hasbro to become the CEO of WotC. From then on all decisions were pretty much made by Hasbro. As I said I'll leave it to you to find the sources of this, they are out there and have been researched. Another major problem is that just about every person has been replaced due to lay offs and firings, so the left hand has no clue what the right hand did last time. As far as I know WotC does not have a PR department. If they do, they need to be cleared out. We do know WotC has a legal department because they sent out a slew of Cease and Desist orders to individuals that made better software in a long weekend in their basement than WotC's software department did in 3 years. In other words the D&D side of WotC is pretty much a mess. Think of a city that was just looted and is burning to the ground. That's WotC right now. Maybe they can rebuild, maybe not... [/QUOTE]

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