Who Will Get the Axe?

[DaveMage]

"Wizards Announces New Organizational Alignment"

Layoffs? I took this as a move to Chaotic Good (see The Rouse's customer resource thread under Gen Con experiences).

Yeah, I'm thinking they could do without those kind of service reps.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Really? WotC have shattered your dreams? Crikey. I also note with interest you avoided 'too many broken promises' in favour of 'Too many plans not followed through'.

Mine personally? No. I chose to walk away and its days like today that I'm thankful I did. There are other ways to achieve the dream besides working for a corporation.

I so do not want a small, vulnerable company to take control of D&D. I want a large, entrenched player in the market, with plenty of resources and a ton of marketing bulk to throw behind the game. Whatever their mis-steps, I think Wizards are the right people to be holding the reins, just at the moment.

I guess we'll see what that means for the brand five years from now.

Yeah, I'm thinking they could do without those kind of service reps.

Best guess is that those service reps were people brought in especially for the con. The type of behavior exhibited at Gen Con doesn't reflect any WotC custserv behavior that I've ever seen.

 

[AllisterH]

Bet Heroscape goes. You know Wizards was dying to get rid of their mini's competition, especially when Heroscape proved you COULD sell packs of non-random miniatures.

Seriously.

Does NOBODY play or know about limited? I keep seeing comments about randomized miniatures and I wonder if any of these people have ever heard about Limited?

 

[Drkfathr1]

Seriously.

Does NOBODY play or know about limited? I keep seeing comments about randomized miniatures and I wonder if any of these people have ever heard about Limited?

Nope. Never heard of it!

 

[Aus_Snow]

Wow, morbid ghoulish much?

(edited; thanks to racoffin - indeed, that was the word.)

 

[Jasperak]

Seriously.

Does NOBODY play or know about limited? I keep seeing comments about randomized miniatures and I wonder if any of these people have ever heard about Limited?

You mean I don't have to buy a case of those things and hope I get what I want?

 

[AllisterH]

Nope. Never heard of it!

*BLINKS*

The awesomeness of Limited

Seriously, I recommend playing Limited over Constructed as the former is a much more skill intensive format.

 

[drothgery]

Doesn't sound good for Star Wars.

It's impossible to cut Star Wars (at least on the RPG side). There's only Rodney there.

 

[racoffin]

Wow, morbid much?

Sorry if that's threadcrapping or something. If it is, delete this or whatever. Titling a thread this way and speculating in kind just quite honestly strikes me as being. . .

No, never mind. Whatever.

I think the word you are looking for is ghoulish. And I agree.

 

[Jasperak]

*BLINKS*

The awesomeness of Limited

Seriously, I recommend playing Limited over Constructed as the former is a much more skill intensive format.

Um, what does that have to do with buying the miniatures you want instead of random boosters?