WotC Jeremy Crawford interview: they read your feedback. An exclusive interview by Christian Hoffer at GenCon.

[Zaukrie]

Us: "Please stop making only one adventure with minimal lore for beloved settings."

Them: "No."

They don't have to agree with all the feedback. They've been pretty clear they aren't going to release as many books..... I'm not sure if people think that thru fully

 

[Oofta]

Us: "Please stop making only one adventure with minimal lore for beloved settings."

Them: "No."

Dang. I just lost a bet. I was sure we could have a thread that discussed what WOTC does without trashing them at least until we hit double digit responses. Ah well.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Pretty much every big entertainment company has people pulling customer/fan/media comments. It would be weird if WotC didn't.

Back in the day, there was literally an industry of "clipping services" that would cut out every reference to a company or product from magazines and newspapers and send them to companies regularly.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Dang. I just lost a bet. I was sure we could have a thread that discussed what WOTC does without trashing them at least until we hit double digit responses. Ah well.

Is it trashing them when that is in fact what they do? It's not really a negative statement. Not like I said "WotC is bad for this reason."

Heck in another thread I mentioned that I totally get why they do it. Lets DMGuild make all the lore stuff and they get a slice of the profits with minimal effort on their part. Maximum gain at minimal effort. Capitalism 101.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Leaving aside issues with self-selection bias, players and DMs aren't game designers.

Despite them really wanting to foist the job on the DM.

 

[Oofta]

Is it trashing them when that is in fact what they do? It's not really a negative statement. Not like I said "WotC is bad for this reason."

Heck in another thread I mentioned that I totally get why they do it. Lets DMGuild make all the lore stuff and they get a slice of the profits with minimal effort on their part. Maximum gain at minimal effort. Capitalism 101.

They don't listen to you personally, it doesn't mean they don't listen.

 

[darjr]

It’s nice to have an idea how they codify social media commentary.

Note I think this is as much letting us know as saying “go give us commentary here” which is cool.

 

[Retreater]

I guess I should feel embarrassed for all my trolling comments in the surveys?...

 

[darjr]

I guess I should feel embarrassed for all my trolling comments in the surveys?...

Yes?

 

[Waller]

So this guy had one tedious chat with a WOTC guy, who said a couple of bland things, and he's posting each one as a special 'exclusive interview'?

1. 'We might revisit old settings again'
2. ' We read UA feedback' (really? that's an 'exclusive'?)

What's next?

3. 'We like dragons'
4. 'We use d20s - exclusive!'

Come on. There's hype, and there's stanning, and there's.... this. ComicBook,com saw fit to make an entire article to tell us that WOTC reads their feedback surveys?

If you have to have a boring PR junket with a WOTC guy, at least don't insult us by splitting each useless, obvious comment into a separate article.

Come on. Can we have Linda Codega back?