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<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 5436062" data-attributes="member: 16212">Yep, agreed. And many people don't. Many people like 4E and don't feel disenfranchised by WotC's actions, because the only thing that matters is product. I like what I get by paying for access to the DDI, and find the cost more than reasonable (in fact it's a frigging steal!). I pay for what I like and don't pay for what I don't like or don't need. Many people just don't care how WotC &quot;acts&quot;, and I'm one of them.Behind everything the game goes on. No-one at my table could care less about whether a book on magic items was cancelled, and although they do care and have noticed that the new CB is a downgrade from the old, if I suggested I was going to stop my campaign because of it, I would get a barrage of complaints. We'll simply annotate our characters by hand until the bugs are fixed and the features are in that we need.You brought up Paizo and it's really interesting to compare the two companies. Paizo's customers are a carefully selected segment of WotC's, utterly pandered to in almost every product, fanatically loyal, and with deep enough pockets to sustain what is becoming an increasingly difficult publication model. Wizards are working to a much broader range, the beginner to the die-hard, cross-system, cross-technology, cross-everything. They're trying all kinds of things, to greater or lesser success.But really, I'm one of maybe a dozen roleplayers in my immediate circle of gamers, and whatever little academic interest I might have in the general RPG marketplace seems positively obsessive next to their utter indifference to the whole thing. To them, there is the game. The books, the tools, the product, and the four hours around the table every Sunday are all that matter. In respect of everything else, they just don't care. Perhaps Wizards realises this more than they are given credit for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 5436062, member: 16212"] Yep, agreed. And many people don't. Many people like 4E and don't feel disenfranchised by WotC's actions, because the only thing that matters is product. I like what I get by paying for access to the DDI, and find the cost more than reasonable (in fact it's a frigging steal!). I pay for what I like and don't pay for what I don't like or don't need. Many people just don't care how WotC "acts", and I'm one of them. Behind everything the game goes on. No-one at my table could care less about whether a book on magic items was cancelled, and although they do care and have noticed that the new CB is a downgrade from the old, if I suggested I was going to stop my campaign because of it, I would get a barrage of complaints. We'll simply annotate our characters by hand until the bugs are fixed and the features are in that we need. You brought up Paizo and it's really interesting to compare the two companies. Paizo's customers are a carefully selected segment of WotC's, utterly pandered to in almost every product, fanatically loyal, and with deep enough pockets to sustain what is becoming an increasingly difficult publication model. Wizards are working to a much broader range, the beginner to the die-hard, cross-system, cross-technology, cross-everything. They're trying all kinds of things, to greater or lesser success. But really, I'm one of maybe a dozen roleplayers in my immediate circle of gamers, and whatever little academic interest I might have in the general RPG marketplace seems positively obsessive next to their utter indifference to the whole thing. To them, there is the game. The books, the tools, the product, and the four hours around the table every Sunday are all that matter. In respect of everything else, they just don't care. Perhaps Wizards realises this more than they are given credit for. [/QUOTE]

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