D&D General Bob World Builder Recreates WOTC's "Do You Like Me?" Survey!

[Parmandur]

yeah if Bob is too negative for you, I cannot really think of a channel that would work for you…

And as it happens, I don't watch any RPG YouTubers. Waste of my time.

 

[Zardnaar]

yeah if Bob is too negative for you, I cannot really think of a channel that would work for you…

Yup don't go to reddit or anywhere else.
Lots of angry pissed off people at WotC.

 

[Remathilis]

why would they even care, they have the results of their own survey

All Bob’s survey does is give us maybe a pretty similar result, but one we know instead of only WotC knowing it

That's the problem, we don't know if the result will be similar or not. Bob's not asking the same people or messaging via the same channels. Bob's survey cannot be used to predict WotC's answers because they aren't targeting the same group of people. You're getting the result of people who watch Bob's channel, nothing more.

 

[TheSword]

Yup don't go to reddit or anywhere else.
Lots of angry pissed off people at WotC.

To be honest I disagree. You can go to dnd/Reddit and scroll through hundreds of threads without seeing a hatchet job thread on WotC or Hasbro.

To be honest it’s quite affirming. There is a lot of positivity and creativity there at the moment. Spending a bit of time reading is a good antidote if the dooming here gets a bit much.

 

[Zardnaar]

To be honest I disagree. You can got to dnd/Reddit and scroll through hundreds of threads without seeing a hatchet job thread on WotC or Hasbro.

To be honest it’s quite affirming. There is a lot of positivity and creativity there at the moment. Spending a bit of time reading is a good antidote if the dooming here gets a bit much.

Well also youtube. It's not so much in the thread titles more comments.

The negativity is mostly aimed at WotC vs D&D. Self inflicted imho.

 

[CleverNickName]

Ooof, you're not kidding. Long before I decided to take a hiatus from YouTube, I knew better than to read the comments.

NEVER read the comments.

 

[overgeeked]

Yeah. The criticism of WotC is 100% self-inflicted and justified.

 

[CleverNickName]

Yeah. The criticism of WotC is 100% self-inflicted and justified.

I'd say it's more of a 50/50 split. For every valid and justified criticism of the many bad decisions that Wizards of the Coast has made, I also see a knee-jerk overreaction to some benign decision they made that got blown out of proportion into The WoRsT tHiNg EvEr. But that's the Internet for ya.

 

[overgeeked]

I'd say it's more of a 50/50 split. For every valid and justified criticism of the many bad decisions that Wizards of the Coast has made, I also see a knee-jerk overreaction to some benign decision they made that got blown out of proportion into The WoRsT tHiNg EvEr. But that's the Internet for ya.

It's because WotC lost a lot of people's trust when they pulled the OGL nonsense last January, so now people are panicky and overreacting to things. That's still 100% WotC's own fault. This wouldn't be happening now if they didn't destroy the community's trust back then. WotC needs to do some actual work on rebuilding / regaining the community's trust, then maybe some of this will settle down.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's because WotC lost a lot of people's trust when they pulled the OGL nonsense last January, so now people are panicky and overreacting to things. That's still 100% WotC's own fault. This wouldn't be happening now if they didn't destroy the community's trust back then. WotC needs to do some actual work on rebuilding / regaining the community's trust, then maybe some of this will settle down.

What they could do to rebuild that trust -- which doesn't equate to "publish 5E campaign settings based on what I liked when I was 13 years old" -- would be an interesting thread.

If nothing else, they do have to try, which they haven't seemed to do so far, although that does seem to be why they are doing that "do you hate us" survey.