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<blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 7676518" data-attributes="member: 63245"><p>If they are super involved as they say they are why do they keep laying off people and "restructuring"? It feels like all I ever hear from WOTC is layoffs, and never new hires. I mean.. I KNOW they have to hire, or else they'd have like... negative people working there. It's just all I ever hear is the exit of people very rarely do I hear about the hiring of new people. </p><p></p><p>So, relating to the supposed involvement... I'm kind of scratching my head. There's only 3 scenarios that can be considered here. </p><p>1. WOTC bears the brunt of the work. Which is clearly not the case. </p><p>2. The 3rd party does much of the work with a bit of WOTC oversight. This is what I and many others assumed. This article clearly tries to dissuade that thought.</p><p>3. There's about a 50-50 partnership, which is what is being pitched. So if both companies are putting in equal time then why is wizards laying people off? The claim is they make concept art and stories... but they just laid off an artist and several other people right after 5e came out such as editors etc. </p><p></p><p>So if they make these stories/ art and they require a team... then lets say that the 3rd party and the WOTC team do things 50-50. This assumes that each company has about half the work input on story and art and mechanics etc. So now the WOTC team is down an artist. From what I can tell the WOTC D&D team isn't big to begin with so I have to imagine that every person on the team is working pretty much fulltime with these collaborations. If you lose an artist then the work has to get shifted to someone or else your modules aren't going to reflect your earlier works. </p><p></p><p>So the art must either be shifted to ANOTHER WOTC member, which I can't imagine another artist could take the extra work load (god help their soul if this is the case, that work load must be immense) or they shift the art to the 3rd party, in this case how can a person possibly say that both companies do equal work? If the 3rd party is doing much more work than wizards than how can you possibly say it isn't "outsourcing" as we talk about (most of the work is being done by the 3rd party which is overseen by wizards QA and such.)</p><p></p><p>There are only so many cases here and when you start laying off people work loads start to shift around. I feel like we are not being told entirely the whole story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evenglare, post: 7676518, member: 63245"] If they are super involved as they say they are why do they keep laying off people and "restructuring"? It feels like all I ever hear from WOTC is layoffs, and never new hires. I mean.. I KNOW they have to hire, or else they'd have like... negative people working there. It's just all I ever hear is the exit of people very rarely do I hear about the hiring of new people. So, relating to the supposed involvement... I'm kind of scratching my head. There's only 3 scenarios that can be considered here. 1. WOTC bears the brunt of the work. Which is clearly not the case. 2. The 3rd party does much of the work with a bit of WOTC oversight. This is what I and many others assumed. This article clearly tries to dissuade that thought. 3. There's about a 50-50 partnership, which is what is being pitched. So if both companies are putting in equal time then why is wizards laying people off? The claim is they make concept art and stories... but they just laid off an artist and several other people right after 5e came out such as editors etc. So if they make these stories/ art and they require a team... then lets say that the 3rd party and the WOTC team do things 50-50. This assumes that each company has about half the work input on story and art and mechanics etc. So now the WOTC team is down an artist. From what I can tell the WOTC D&D team isn't big to begin with so I have to imagine that every person on the team is working pretty much fulltime with these collaborations. If you lose an artist then the work has to get shifted to someone or else your modules aren't going to reflect your earlier works. So the art must either be shifted to ANOTHER WOTC member, which I can't imagine another artist could take the extra work load (god help their soul if this is the case, that work load must be immense) or they shift the art to the 3rd party, in this case how can a person possibly say that both companies do equal work? If the 3rd party is doing much more work than wizards than how can you possibly say it isn't "outsourcing" as we talk about (most of the work is being done by the 3rd party which is overseen by wizards QA and such.) There are only so many cases here and when you start laying off people work loads start to shift around. I feel like we are not being told entirely the whole story. [/QUOTE]
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