Roll for Combat reveals the terms of the "sweetheart deal" offered to 3pp

[Pedantic]

I'm positive that someone was thinking sandbox but better when they picked the name.

Sandbox, but make it fantasy!

 

[Parmandur]

You're presenting it as a fraction of the whole, but that's irrelevant and misleading.

Thisnis all academic, because WotC has radically backed off here. The mathematical formula for what is owed is a flat rate above the threshold, but for business purposes the real cost yo be calculated is that fraction of the whole that slides based on how much is made. And based on that, the numbers involved aren't unreasonable per se, WotC businessfolk probably assumed that any company doing $750,000 in sales probably would have their coats covered by that point and be in profit mode, because those businessfolk would themelselves set up a business (i.e., assuming that people running a $2 million a year publisher think like themselves, perhaps a flawed assumption). And on those terms, the benefit to advertising to 15 million active D&D customers is, really seriously, probably worth way more than the percentage of the whole in question.

But again, academic.

I pointed out that my phrase was ‘don’t know you’re born’ you’re either British or have lived in Britain long enough to get the idiom. You know full well it doesn’t mean gullible, but rather unappreciative of how lucky you are.

Now, I'm 'Merican and a native English speaker, albeit not ein Anglischer from the Big Island. I do have a degree in English literature and language, however, and I can say that I have never heard or read this idiom, nor can I parse it.

 

[Ashtagon]

"Kids today. They don't know they've been born."

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Using English claims it is international usage. However, Google Ngrams suggests it is primarily British English. Earliest written record seems to be about 100 years ago. To me, it feels like its more Midlands/Northern British than southern.

Most reference websites seem to suggest it means something along the lines of "you have a good life and don't realise it". It's something like "Oh my sweet summer child" in that regard, except a bit more disparaging, because it's normally used to refer to someone in the third person, rather than talking to someone in the second person.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Contracts were 2 years, and granted the following:

• Pay 15% instead of 25% on revenue over 750k
• 6 articles about your product on D&D Beyond
• 6 emails about your product to D&D Beyond users
• 8 social media posts on D&D Beyond or D&D branded channels
• 2 YouTube videos on D&D Beyond or D&D branded channels
• 6 days of D&D Beyond home page placement

This was the carrot to the OGL 1.1 stick. Notably Wizards disclosed that they have 15 million registered users on D&D Beyond.

These are some pretty weak-sauce perks.

 

[Maxperson]

That is exactly what those calculations show. A threshold that has scaling % of royalties from 0% to 7.5% up to $1.5m. Repeating 25% becauze it’s a larger number while ignoring the reality reveals either a lack of business acumen or you ideological opposition to this, in which case why are you bothering talking to people about the reality on the ground. Companies taking over 1.5m every year just in D&D related PDFs and books? At that point it’s not a small D&D publisher, they don’t equate to 99% of those 15,000 publishers and designers.

If you’re gonna just lie then let’s stop here. I pointed out that my phrase was ‘don’t know you’re born’ you’re either British or have lived in Britain long enough to get the idiom. You know full well it doesn’t mean gullible, but rather unappreciative of how lucky you are.

You're just plain wrong on this. I recently posted how, but you ignored that post.

 

[Parmandur]

You're just plain wrong on this. I recently posted how, but you ignored that post.

I think the reason it didn't work was that the people at WotC in charge of figuring out a number didn't have an accurate understanding of how seat-of-the-pants the third party D&D industry is.

 

[Parmandur]

"Kids today. They don't know they've been born."

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Using English claims it is international usage. However, Google Ngrams suggests it is primarily British English. Earliest written record seems to be about 100 years ago. To me, it feels like its more Midlands/Northern British than southern.

Most reference websites seem to suggest it means something along the lines of "you have a good life and don't realise it". It's something like "Oh my sweet summer child" in that regard, except a bit more disparaging, because it's normally used to refer to someone in the third person, rather than talking to someone in the second person.

Oh, wow, interesting. Without that context, honestly I couldn't even parse the idiom as making any sense on a syntactical level.

 

[Maxperson]

I think the reason it didn't work was that the people at WotC in charge of figuring out a number didn't have an accurate understanding of how seat-of-the-pants the third party D&D industry is.

I don't believe that at all. They have those numbers at their fingertips. They are as likely to be out of touch about those numbers as they are about what players and DMs want out of the game. There's no way in hell that they haven't had long talks with some people who make those products or have employees who have done it themselves.

 

[Undrave]

Wait… I’m confused… is it 25% of revenue OVER 750K or is it 25% of ALL revenue once you go over 750K? @_@

 

[Haplo781]

Wait… I’m confused… is it 25% of revenue OVER 750K or is it 25% of ALL revenue once you go over 750K? @_@

It's marginal like taxes. So if you make $750,001, WizBro gets 25¢.