D&D General The Crab Bucket Fallacy

[Umbran]

WOTC wants everyone's money and dreams of being the ONLY source of fantasy RPGs.

Nah. Positing unrealistic desires supports a narrative, but is likely inaccurate.

They want to maximize their sales, which is a more nuanced beast, which economically entails having a sort of ecology of games, some of which won't be WotC's.

 

[Minigiant]

Do they? That's quite the unsubstantiated claim, especially with them putting core game in CC.

GSL Fiasco.
OGL Fiasco.

WOTC dreams of all fantasy adventure play going through them.

 

[Micah Sweet]

WOTC wants everyone's money and dreams of being the ONLY source of fantasy RPGs.

If WOTC desires everyone's money, they need to provide content for every.

Well, they're never going to do that so, as I've been told myself many times, we just have to accept and move on.

How likely are you to like WotC's interpretation of anything you actually care about anyway?

 

[Sacrosanct]

WOTC wants everyone's money and dreams of being the ONLY source of fantasy RPGs.

If WOTC desires everyone's money, they need to provide content for every.

Overproducing product trying to cover everything is one of the biggest reasons TSR nearly folded in the first place.

 

[Minigiant]

Nah. Positing unrealistic desires supports a narrative, but is likely inaccurate.

They want to maximize their sales, which is a more nuanced beast, which economically entails having a sort of ecology of games, some of which won't be WotC's.

Being able to doing and wanting to do it are different things.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

5e is tame.

Can't even be a werewolf.

Yes you can.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Overproducing product trying to cover everything is one of the biggest reasons TSR nearly folded in the first place.

Eh, still got a lot of great product. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

 

[Tony Vargas]

WOTC wants everyone's money and dreams of being the ONLY source of fantasy RPGs.

If WOTC desires everyone's money, they need to provide content for every.

They really don't. They just need to keep D&D in the same place its been for the last 40 some odd years, ever since the Satanic Panic and Mazes & Monsters: the only TTRPG anyone outside the hobby has ever heard of. The one basically everyone must start with.

That's it, they get your money like a cover charge to the hobby.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Eh, still got a lot of great product. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I mean, the world is what I'm trying to escape from by playing D&D....

 

[Oofta]

Being able to doing and wanting to do it are different things.

Making claims about something and having actual evidence are also different things.