Zardnaar
Legend
Hasbro and Wizards made a huge investment to bring in new players with this movie.
What I've been hearing is they didn't care about the OGL fiasco, DND Beyond subscription cancellations, dips in quality of recent products, etc, because they were planning on this film bringing in enough fans to recoup what they lost. Not caring about old fans because millions of new fans were going to be coming to D&D because of this movie.
That's what I heard. Don't know how much was serious or just grumbling from the Internet.
Think that was more internet rumblings. You see it here a lot "they're not aiming it at you its for bew players" .
He'll you saw this sentiment with 4E.
The flaw is these theoretically new punters don't turn up.