PC praguepride:
Now WotC is the exact opposite. The executive board all grew up playing D&D, they're all self-admitted gamers. And yet, they're producing s*** for a game. It's lazy, it's a huge step backwards...
I just don't get it, truth is stranger then fiction.
Opinion, not truth. And there's a whole lof of people out there who are more than happy with the design behind 4th Edition D&D - and not just people who play World of Warcraft, either (despite that being a rather common 'myth' among most of the 4E-haters). The system doesn't do anything to prevent roleplaying, and the mechanics are tight and solid - and balanced. While there are many things about 3.5 I love, playing at high levels, spellcasters overpower the non-casters to such a ridiculous degree - and that doesn't make for a good cooperative game.
Sure, the 4E Forgotten Realms stuff is bad, but that's mostly because they wrecked the original Realms to make it - if I hadn't come to know and love it so much already, I wouldn't have thought the new books were that bad at all. But, I did, and I do. :p
On another note, WotC is currently producing my very favorite brand of roleplaying sourcebooks, with their Star Wars Saga Edition, and each new book keeps amazing me with the top-notch quality (even if some people do love to nitpick about silly statblock errors that won't make any difference at all in actual play). So, while I won't be buying into 4E FR, and probably not anything 4E outside the core rulebooks for a good long while, WotC is definitely doing
something right. :-)