WotC New D&D survey from WotC as part of the 50th anniversary year.

[Parmandur]

Liberate yourself friend, get a job as a landscape and get some fresh air. No one should have to live as a drone.

Nah, I'm doing fine as a drone, the pay is good and the benefits are solid.

My employer makes Hasbro look like a cuddley teddy bear, though, I'll say that much.

 

[Parmandur]

so you object to WotC sending the Pinkertons to that guy but would have been fine with some other rentacop?

Or just the straight up cops, which was the actual threat the Pinkerton used, of just calling the cops and starting legal action.

 

[Parmandur]

I was using enshittification in a relatively broad sense

But it isn't a broad term, it is a specific term. Capitalizing on D&D aggressively and sometimes unscrupulous has been going on since 1974.

 

[Scribe]

you said they were "squeezing every dime out of D&D" and that doesn't match the examples you had in mind.

Reducing costs to the company, at the potential cost of quality down stream to the client, is squeezing out value for the company itself, or the exec's/shareholders.

I dont see how it doesnt apply.

 

[Meech17]

Perhaps it included 3rd party D&D products in their definition of D&D.

That's a good point. Recommending LevelUP5E or something from Kobold Press probably counts as recommending a "D&D" product that isn't a WoTC product.

 

[mamba]

That's a good point. Recommending LevelUP5E or something from Kobold Press probably counts as recommending a "D&D" product that isn't a WoTC product.

that was the other alternative, but I decided against it. I assume they would explicitly distinguish between D&D and 3pp products, seems more relevant than between MtG and D&D in the ‘WotC product’ question

 

[OakenHart]

Hiring the Pinkertons for any kind of investigative or similar work is always a bad call unless your goal is intimidation. Period. The reason you hire them is their name and the intimidatory and predatory aspect that name gives them. It's the same reason you hire them for close protection or the like - it gives the people they're protecting a sense that these guys are "dangerous badasses", even though they're just the same ol same ol rentacops you could get from a dozen different agencies (indeed they're owned by Securitas, the most generic of rentacops), and for some people that vibe matters.

This is what led my group to stop buying from them. WotC used them and were completely unapologetic, never taking responsibility. Haven't bought a WotC product since, it's all been solely using the stuff our group already owned and 3rd party materials.

I understand that it's possible for miscommunications to happen or for people to make mistakes but to do this then never own up to it, much less behave as if nothing was out-of-line, is unacceptable.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

I'm kinda surprised that "I hate X" is an option in the survey. Normally that's a question corporate surveyors are reluctant to ask as even raising the possibility that a Customer could hate the Product is Verboten.

Kinda feels like they're trying to get honest opinions from as many people as possible with this short and to the point survey. Very interesting in itself!

 

[MoonSong]

Hey Wizards!

Want to improve your reputation easily?

Release the SRD for the new version (wink wink, we all know what's up) day 1 of release into the CC!

Thanks!

Giving us the 3.x SRDs now on CC would be cool.

 

[FrogReaver]

I'm kinda surprised that "I hate X" is an option in the survey. Normally that's a question corporate surveyors are reluctant to ask as even raising the possibility that a Customer could hate the Product is Verboten.

Kinda feels like they're trying to get honest opinions from as many people as possible with this short and to the point survey. Very interesting in itself!

Maybe they seen enworlds poll about who was going to buy 5e2024