WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

[Corinnguard]

I picked a 2. I agree with the OP, when I am roleplaying, I am thinking about what the next session with my group is going to be like and what I am going to be doing with my character. However, I do wish that Hasbro/WoTC would stop rolling so many 1's. It's embarrassing.

 

[Evaniel]

"2"

I understand the desire to minimize our collective complicity in corporate misdeeds via selective purchasing, 100%. When the initial hubbub around them trying to pull the OGL happened, I dutifully pulled my Beyond sub and explained why in the exit form. They corrected course, so I've let myself purchase stuff again.

I find a lot of the absolutism you see around the topic (e.g. "WotC=Corporation/Corporation=Bad/Buying WotC Stuff=Bad) to be a little, well, absolutist.

The fact is, I'm enjoying the current edition of the game more than I have in a long time. It's up there with B/X and 2e for me.

 

[mamba]

Went with 2, the only one that really mattered was the OGL, they are still on parole for that one, all the others I simply shrugged off.

To me it is more important that I like the product, but they have not exactly been hitting it out of the park with that one for a while. The direction they are taking the game in is not one I am very interested in

 

[DEFCON 1]

I'd be a '0' if that was an option.

My connection to any company begins and ends with the transaction. Once I have given my money and gotten my stuff, I give zero thought to anyone or anything that got things to that point or what goes on past that point.

You could be the nicest, most generous person in the world, but if you have nothing worthwhile to sell me, who you are as a person is meaningless. The inverse also being true.

 

[Retreater]

I put a 5, realizing I'm in the minority. I'm glad some of you are 1-2s - you're probably not as unhappy as I am with the hobby.
Not only is it the scandals, the corporate mindset has taken over design and product development.
"We're never going to change the game. There's never going to be a new edition. You're just going to get 5e for the rest of your life. We're not going to put in design twists that will cause trouble for the VTT or character designer. Everything must fit into the existing framework. We can't create anything bold and experimental that might frighten our shareholders. We're going to lean on nostalgia instead of creating anything new. (IIRC, the last new campaign setting was Eberron two decades ago.)"
D&D is honestly just boring to me. It was already a backwards-facing product in 2014. It feels dated and bland moreso in 2024.

 

[KYRON45]

Having a baby with your brother’s wife is a scandal. Finding out the company traffics in black market puppies is a scandal. Paying off little league umpires so your team gets the pizza party is a scandal.

Poor business decisions, not knowing how to work your own website, reusing old material….thats just poor leadership.

 

[Parmandur]

1, because 0 is not an option. WotC and Hasbro have always been like this, and I have zero expectations they will improve. When they make toys I like, I buy them. When they don't, I don't. I only bought two books, the 3.5 PHB and 4E PHB, for the first decade I played D&D.

 

[Parmandur]

Having a baby with your brother’s wife is a scandal. Finding out the company traffics in black market puppies is a scandal. Paying off little league umpires so your team gets the pizza party is a scandal.

Poor business decisions, not knowing how to work your own website, reusing old material….thats just poor leadership.

Don't look to a toy-seller for "leadership".

 

[BookTenTiger]

Don't look to a toy-seller for "leadership".

I'm pretty sure they mean leadership of a company or business, not leadership of a community.

 

[KYRON45]

Don't look to a toy-seller for "leadership".

The people in leadership positions at the company could be better at leading the company.