WotC Has Kyle Brink left WotC?

KYRON45

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My comment was more reflective of how Wotc is treated by the forum members in general.
I wish Mr. Brink (i really have no idea who he is or what he does), Wotc and everyone who is just trying to get by in a world where everyone not only has an opinion but feels the need to share it well. I apologize for the run-on sentence I was trapped in there once it began.

We can all do better.
 

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Oofta

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My comment was more reflective of how Wotc is treated by the forum members in general.
I wish Mr. Brink (i really have no idea who he is or what he does), Wotc and everyone who is just trying to get by in a world where everyone not only has an opinion but feels the need to share it well. I apologize for the run-on sentence I was trapped in there once it began.

We can all do better.

Some people have complained about the company, others have praised them and said they'd jump at an offer to work there again.

We can draw no conclusions about a person leaving the company. Having worked with some people that the group were all happy to see leave, we can't trust what people say about previous employers either.
 

I cannot even recall what he was, VP? Other than the Apology Tour, I dont think I ever saw his name pop up, and that was some time ago at this point. I mean we are mid-2024 now.

Fired? Quietly exited, stage right? What did he even do.

Exact same job as Kyle Brinks and the new lady, I apologize her name eludes me at the moment, Executive Producer for D&D.
 





Too bad you don't still work there, I could share my complaints about Pharoh and Planescape with someone with influence 😇. Hope your doing well.
I'm good thanks! It's never fun to be laid off, but overall I look back with a sense of pride at spending over 5 years building D&D Beyond into something that brought joy to so many, especially all of those people I heard from with accessibility requirements who struggled previously.
 

dave2008

Legend
That's to bad, I really appreciated him coming out and discussing the OGL fiasco with people.

I feel it is never a good look when the person you had as your shield leaves the company. IMO, you need to take care of the people who take your bullets. However, I have no idea why he left WotC, so it could have been good for everyone involved.
 
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Like many people across the country, he no longer works at the same company for reasons that we don't know.

What else is there to say? People quit, get better jobs, retire, get fired all the time. On average, people stay with one company for a little over 4 years in the US. I don't see why it's any of our business, if he wants people to know what's going on with his life he'll post it somewhere.
Whilst this is a valid point in a general sense, and worth considering, we do have a legitimate interest in whether certain people are still working at certain companies, particularly in creative industries.

Particularly when our impression of those individuals was, as I think it was with Kyle Brink, at least "basically positive". Maybe we're grading on a curve for WotC, but he seemed like he was basically doing a good thing, and him communicating seemed to represent a positive after a truly huge amount of negative from WotC. It's not, I would suggest "none of our business" when he's been a public communicator for WotC and has appeared to be leading on certain positive directions for D&D.

Personally I work in the law and people - both lawyers and clients and even potential clients - absolutely do care if and to some extent why a lawyer they've worked with or even just admired left a business. They're not fungible. I don't think people like Kyle Brink are fungible either.

Now, I think perhaps what you're intending to warn against is a feeling of entitlement to and a desire for gossip, which, sure, but again, in creative industries, I don't think that's usually the motivator for wanting to know who is working where. I don't really care if so-and-so left because of creative differences with such-and-such, mildly fun as that can be to know, but I do care that they left, or were made to leave. Particularly with WotC who I think it's fair to said have had a degree of apparent caprice as to what their future for various games is. And particularly here because Kyle Brink was the public face of a lot of comments/suggestions/quasi-promises re: the OGL.

One other thing you didn't say but I think would agree with is that we shouldn't necessarily assume that because personnel left/changed things are automatically getting worse - but I also think we shouldn't be blind to personnel changes.
 

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