Your Bet on Licensing

[xechnao]

Particularly with something like third party support, which to Wizards is neither a critical function nor a core service -- meaning it is probably very low on everyone's priority list. If anyone within Wizards is championing third party support, they're probably doing it largely on their own initiative. It's really easy to see something like this get stuck in corporate horse latitudes.

I guess you have a point here.

 

[SteveC]

More important for the current case is that WOTC has a new president. Whenever a new chief executive comes in, all prior decisions are off the table. He can step in and reverse everything if he so chooses, and will frequently want to do so to demonstrate who's in charge.

I've seen it happen more than once from the inside. The larger the company, the more likely this is to happen.

I can't agree with this more, having been inside of several companies now that had major management changes. There is a notion of the first thing you do when you're newly put in charge of a company is to say "hey, everything is working well here, I'm not here to rock the boat, things are going well, why should we change them?" The second thing you do is make a series of major, arbitrary changes, to show that you are the new sheriff in town, and everyone needs to know it!

I have lived this so often that I don't doubt it's true, so perhaps that's what we're seeing here.

--Steve

 

[Delta]

I am confused. Are you arguing that large companies lose time or cut time on decisions?

Frankly, I can't understand what you're trying to say. I don't think that "lose time or cut time on decisions" has got anything to do with it. Read what I wrote above or the added comments from Garnfellow and SteveC.

 

[xechnao]

Frankly, I can't understand what you're trying to say. I don't think that "lose time or cut time on decisions" has got anything to do with it. Read what I wrote above or the added comments from Garnfellow and SteveC.

Yeah its ok. Eventually I got what you were saying.