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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9223735" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, for one thing, consider who &quot;we&quot; is.&nbsp; The number of people playing the game, and thus potentially paying attention, has grown dramatically in the past 5+ years.&nbsp; That's a larger population to be offended by it all than has ever existed previously.&nbsp; And those people are in more public online venues than previously.It has been years since WotC has had major layoffs at holiday time - for years before the pandemic, Hasbro was experiencing only small, 2-4% yearly losses, and one gain of about 20% in headcount.&nbsp; So, for a lot of folks, then, this phenomenon is new, or hadn't been heard of for nearly a decade.Big, sure, but not &quot;huge&quot;.&nbsp; Exxon-Mobil has a hundred-thousand employees and more.&nbsp; That's huge.&nbsp; This doesn't impact the argument much, except that WotC is still small enough that we have names and faces for individual people doing things we care about, which makes layoffs seem more personal, and engages more empathy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9223735, member: 177"] Well, for one thing, consider who "we" is. The number of people playing the game, and thus potentially paying attention, has grown dramatically in the past 5+ years. That's a larger population to be offended by it all than has ever existed previously. And those people are in more public online venues than previously. It has been years since WotC has had major layoffs at holiday time - for years before the pandemic, Hasbro was experiencing only small, 2-4% yearly losses, and one [I]gain[/I] of about 20% in headcount. So, for a lot of folks, then, this phenomenon is new, or hadn't been heard of for nearly a decade. Big, sure, but not "huge". Exxon-Mobil has a hundred-thousand employees and more. That's huge. This doesn't impact the argument much, except that WotC is still small enough that we have names and faces for individual people doing things we care about, which makes layoffs seem more personal, and engages more empathy. [/QUOTE]

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