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Due in part to Sebastian's efforts on the WoTC boards and his efforts to ellicit a response from Kim Mohan, many have expressed the feeling that WoTC has done nothing but insult them over the last many months. That got me thinking and I decided to put together a list of things that WoTC has said that I find incredibly insulting as a fan of D&D. Obviously this isn't a complete list of things as it will take me a while to track down all of the ridiculous things they have said but please feel free to contribute what you found insulting.
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Kim Mohan wrote:How Did We Get into This?
Well, I won't belabor the obvious by telling you how electronic publishing works, and I won't waste your time by going into the details of why this new method of magazine delivery is better than shipping printed copies to postal mailboxes and retail outlets.Obviously Sebastian has already brought to light how insulting this is. WoTC, just answer the question.
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Stephen Schubert wrote:An analogy used around here a few years back was "making the sausage". To extend and warp that analogy a bit: I think we want you to learn how good the sausage might taste, and realize that it can be part of a wholesome (and fatty) breakfast, before we go into the details about how exactly we made it. I think that metaphor is about to break down, though, so I'm going to move on now...Not for nothing, but not only is this analogy insulting (making sausage??!!) but it fails to answer the question. We don't want to know how to make sausage, or how it will taste, we want to know why we are being served sausage when all we want is bacon! The question was 'why' not 'how' and yes your metaphor broke down because it wasn't even relevant to the topic.
3) The 08/16/2007 Dungeon Editorial by Bart Carroll and Chris Thomasson:
Upon checking the word count I noticed that only 60 words out of the more than 1300 word editorial pertained to Dungeon. Way to go. Bart, you managed to talk about everything but Dungeon and...
I've found the wotc to be condescending and uncaring. I've seen enough of 4e and had my fill of wotc attitude. The anime/starwars flavor is not what I want in D&D. I'll pick up some back issues of Dragon then I'll be done purchings wotc/hasbro products to include all d&d 4e products and novels. Their fantastic events and changes make me think 4e is starwars and dragons not Dungeons& Dragons.