Friday, July 14, 2006

Paul Barclay on seeding problems with WotDQ

It has become apparent that, for the vast majority of cases, the box picturing the Blackguard on Nightmare will only contain an uncommon huge. Wizards are aware of the problem, and Paul Barclay has the following to say about it:

Paul Barclay posted on maxminis:
As the person who's ultimately responsible for making sure that errors like this don't happen, I can tell you that our biggest priority when we see a problem is preventing the problem in the future. I don't want to see this happen again, and my team is putting procedures into place at Wizards and at the factory to make sure that the Nightmare scenario doesn't happen again.

We know this won't happen with any Dreamblade sets. We know this won't happen with War Drums or Underdark. We know this won't happen on A&A Reserves. We're going to make sure it doesn't happen with SWM Bounty Hunters.

These procedures will also fix or catch any potential pairing problems, so we won't be seeing that again, either.

I'm not going to comment further on WoDQ, as I don't have any authority to do that. What I can say is to please keep posting ideas - you never know when we might find one that's better than anything we've come up with ourselves.

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Paul Barclay
Miniatures & New Business Operations Manager
Wizards of the Coast