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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkj" data-source="post: 3471834" data-attributes="member: 18646">Well, I'm certainly in no position to really argue one way or another. It's fine to speculate on their thinking, but I doubt we really have all the relevant facts to come to any confident conclusion. I'm sure that a business calculation drove the whole thing, but I'm not comfortable concluding that no other factors were involved in how it was implemented. That said, I don't really feel like it's worth arguing about, since I think we lack sufficient info to really make it worth the effort. Now, I'm not arguing that people shouldn't put their theories out. What the heck. It's an internet messageboard after all.Which leads me to another point-- Vocal complaints from a group of people in an internet community seems, to me, like a lot of screaming in the dark. Probably, if you totalled all the people posting in all the threads on all the messagboards in the world on this topic, it would make just a tiny, tiny fraction of the D&D consumer base. That doesn't mean it doesn't matter. Certainly if these messageboards make a representative sample, it still matters. I just don't have the data to say one way or another. Maybe Wizards does. I suppose since this is all about a Digital Initiative, then the online community becomes far more important. But how many of us really post on this stuff? Until today, I almost never did. And I'll probably stop shortly. What sample does a thread like this represent? Is it something to make business decisions on? It might be. I don't know.It's also not to say that internet outrage couldn't have an effect. Even if only a tiny fraction is complaining, there is the 'theory of the squeaky wheel'-- which is to say that I suspect not all business moves are rational either.Yadda yadda. Just rambling really. Cheers,AD</blockquote>

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