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Edited mild profanity ~ Bert The Mod

I agree with a lot of the posts in this thread suggesting that WotC has in fact become irresponsible.

I started playing in 2005, and to me those first few months of checking out minis' sculpts and stats will always be a great memory. It was pure excitement. But honestly if I try to take a step back and look at things without emotion, I really don't think I could have felt that same excitement had I gotten into D&D minis a few months ago.

I look at the sheer quality of the minis themselves as the starting point. They really have taken a nosedive. I repaint a lot of them, and thus have studied them in all their minute detail for hours. Strictly intellectually speaking, they are not very good now. I won't even tell you emotionally how I feel about that.

Then you've got what appears to be the lack of manpower, the whole alpha testing fiascos, products released with errors, the broken promises of what they are going to do, the flaws in the new rules the community immediately exploited, and the list doesn't end there.

I hope there is a next year for D&D minis, but at the same time, if that next year finds us looking at the same lack of quality in the product or the product support, I won't care.

Also, I loved Merric's website when I first started. I went there almost every day to check things out and read about this mini or that one. I agree that if he has decome disillusioned, then things have changed. All that drew me to D&D minis in the first place is fading. I was passionate, probably even fanatical, about the minis game. I couldn't even tell you now what day they typically post new previews. I browse the forums now out of dread--what bad news today?

I'm expecting the worst, not because I am negative, but because the red flags have started to fly everywhere I look.