Steal this Hook at WotC

[Ail]

This is an endless theme. Only yesterday, I was rummaging through the RPG material I got from Wizard's site years ago and I found a letter of the vice-president about the failure of TSR and how WotC bought it. I think it explained a lot about the way WotC operates, and I heartily recommend that you look for it and read it, if it's anywhere available yet, before commenting on how and what will WotC do regarding future publications.

Speciffically, he says that TSR failed because it didn't listen customers, and that's one thing that WotC did afterwards. Some of the things the customers said, as a whole, was that
- they didn't want SF as it was done in Alternity
- they didn't like the jargon in Planescape, or planescape for that matter
- they didn't buy Ravenloft because it was overshadowed by products from a competitor (one has to assume White Wolf here).
- the company lost too many time on their own worlds and did not support the worlds of individual players

so, there are a few lessons here. If these comments are true, one can recognize in the first years of D&D under WotC a direct compliance with market wish. That including banning several settings, speciffically those that the majority didn't care for, and producing general themed accessories, that could be used with any setting without having to, as he put it, spending thousands of dollars before on setting specific material.
Go read it, it's very instructive.

Alex

[NeoTiamat]

Link?

[Ail]

Link?

that's the problem, I don't know if it's still there. I saved it years ago.

[Ail]

Link?

that's the problem, I don't know if it's still there. I saved it years ago.

found it here

link It might require Internet Explorer to work.

Alex

[Luke Fleeman]

rewinding your video tapes before you return them.

What's a video tape?