Would the D&D brand manager please stand up.

[rgard]

Yeah Paizo's been waiting for word on Dragon Compendium: Volume 2 for quite some time but WotC hasn't given the word despite how powerful of a sale they got on the first volume.

Sad to see WotC not answer their customers and simply scheme to make more money...yet their schemes always fail.

Maybe one day someone who truly loves the game and its customers will step up and right all the wrongs.

Huh? Yes, the Twighlight Zone is alive and well. Joking aside, you are joking right?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Glyfair]

Isn't the rumor that WOTC is shuffling their feet on DC2 and AOW because they don't want the competition?

And remember, that's exactly what it is a rumor. In fact, I'm reasonably sure that it's all based on speculation, since no one that knows is saying anything other than "they haven't given the OK, Paizo has submitted a request."

 

[Maggan]

I was wondering if the current brand manager was talking to the fans.

Not if he learned the lesson from the responses Charles Ryan got from a bunch of posters when posting on En World.

/M

 

[CharlesRyan]

I have no complaints about the way I've been treated on EN World, then or now.

Chris and Andy are both in R&D, so if you're looking for business-related answers they probably aren't the best source. (Not that they aren't informed, just that they aren't the voice of the the business unit and probably wouldn't want to speak for someone else's sphere of responsibility.) They both tend to check in on EN World, though, so they might see this thread and pass it on to the brand team.

The folks you're looking for are Kevin Wilson and/or Scott Rouse. Both are great guys, and I'm sure they'd love to help you. I have no idea whether their busy schedules let them spend much time online, but you might try the WotC boards (D&D General) if you don't get a response from them here.

And don't be too hard on them. The job of Brand Manager at any consumer goods company is a very, very busy one--essentially, in addition to a regular (quite varied) set of full-time responsibilities, the Brand Manager is the one who has to solve every crisis that comes along for the brand. (And at a big company, with a big brand, there's at least one end-of-the-world crisis every day!) Sometimes a task like approving a licensor's submission is easy to kick down the to-do list when the 10-hour workday is about to turn into a 12-hour workday. . . .

 

[diaglo]

try here too: http://ww2.wizards.com/Company/default.aspx

 

[CharlesRyan]

All right, just who's stalking whom now?

 

[Melan]

I'll say! Just like wizards of the Coast did!

Oh... wait...

I believe it is called "Hasbro" nowadays. Just saying...

 

[Melan]

And remember, that's exactly what it is a rumor. In fact, I'm reasonably sure that it's all based on speculation, since no one that knows is saying anything other than "they haven't given the OK, Paizo has submitted a request."

It is suspiciously similar to the treatment Kenzer&Co had received with several of its Hackmaster products.

 

[BadMojo]

I don't really have any comments on what Wizards is or isn't doing with new products or Paizo stuff, but it does seem like WotC is a lot less involved on these forums than they were a few years ago.

It seemed like we had a lot more contact with the folks in both the design and business side of things back then. Maybe this is just a function of more work and fewer people at Wizards, but I do miss the way things used to be (or the way I recall how things were).

 

[Bagpuss]

Charles works for the English distributor Esdevium these days.

Oh well in that case can he explain why D&D Miniatures are still so expensive over here (that it's cheaper to import independently from the US) when the dollar is so weak compared to the pound?