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<blockquote data-quote="AWizardInDallas" data-source="post: 4913217" data-attributes="member: 52605"><p><strong>DDOutsider</strong></p><p></p><p>No, hell no, not now, not ever. I've no interest in throwing large wads of cash into the failure pile Wizards of the Coast has become. Peter Adkinson and Ryan Dancy were the soul of that company and without them, it's just a shade of its former self. Wizards is headed in a direction I'm not interested in... they're <em>way</em> out to sea.</p><p></p><p>I'd have <strong>no trust</strong> whatsoever in any company that: produced such a catastrophic failure as Gleemax, killed <em>two</em> high-quality, long-running print publications, alienated and <em>insulted</em> its former customer base, reinvented the wheel with 4E, crapped on business partners and 3rd-party publishers, caused such heavy delays on a revised 4E license (impacting the industry, causing some 3rd-party publishers to throw in the towel and ticking off customers with heavy legal restrictions designed to protect IP), published a "fan site kit" that isn't, and halted support for the prior system (including cutting access to PDF sales... not to mention filing lawsuits TSR-style over those). They also sit on colossal mounds of intellectual property they'll just never do anything with, such as "acquisitioned" Avalon Hill games.</p><p></p><p>Wizards of the Coast just doesn't spell "fun."</p><p></p><p>No, it comes down to one thing and that's <strong>trust</strong>. Also, like someone else here put it well, I don't rent software and the subscription model is just an attempt to create a cash dragon. I wouldn't trust Wizards to care if it even works <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED-209" target="_blank">so long as it sells</a>. They don't listen to even their current customer base.</p><p></p><p>Wizards of the Coast should pick an industry: games or computer games and leave IT to IT professionals.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, such a paring is implausible, and that's putting it mildly. Paizo and Wizards have completely incompatible sensibilities.</p><p></p><p>I'll stand by companies I feel I can trust: <a href="http://paizo.com" target="_blank">Paizo</a>, <a href="http://www.wolflair.com" target="_blank">Lone Wolf Development</a> and <a href="http://www.profantasy.com" target="_blank">Profantasy</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AWizardInDallas, post: 4913217, member: 52605"] [b]DDOutsider[/b] No, hell no, not now, not ever. I've no interest in throwing large wads of cash into the failure pile Wizards of the Coast has become. Peter Adkinson and Ryan Dancy were the soul of that company and without them, it's just a shade of its former self. Wizards is headed in a direction I'm not interested in... they're [I]way[/I] out to sea. I'd have [B]no trust[/B] whatsoever in any company that: produced such a catastrophic failure as Gleemax, killed [I]two[/I] high-quality, long-running print publications, alienated and [I]insulted[/I] its former customer base, reinvented the wheel with 4E, crapped on business partners and 3rd-party publishers, caused such heavy delays on a revised 4E license (impacting the industry, causing some 3rd-party publishers to throw in the towel and ticking off customers with heavy legal restrictions designed to protect IP), published a "fan site kit" that isn't, and halted support for the prior system (including cutting access to PDF sales... not to mention filing lawsuits TSR-style over those). They also sit on colossal mounds of intellectual property they'll just never do anything with, such as "acquisitioned" Avalon Hill games. Wizards of the Coast just doesn't spell "fun." No, it comes down to one thing and that's [B]trust[/B]. Also, like someone else here put it well, I don't rent software and the subscription model is just an attempt to create a cash dragon. I wouldn't trust Wizards to care if it even works [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED-209"]so long as it sells[/URL]. They don't listen to even their current customer base. Wizards of the Coast should pick an industry: games or computer games and leave IT to IT professionals. Fortunately, such a paring is implausible, and that's putting it mildly. Paizo and Wizards have completely incompatible sensibilities. I'll stand by companies I feel I can trust: [URL="http://paizo.com"]Paizo[/URL], [URL="http://www.wolflair.com"]Lone Wolf Development[/URL] and [URL="http://www.profantasy.com"]Profantasy[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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