-I think a lot of people discount bad de/woke headlines whatever you want to call them. Talking to 3 younger people about dragon age veilguard (which i own) and their first words were I heard it wasn’t good. Now that m not there age but I would argue the voices they heard were loud enough to sway them.
no idea what they heard, so not sure why you think it is the ‘woke’ part that discouraged them. For that matter I know nothing about the game, so not sure if there is even anything in that regard
-this headline came out on a mostly slow week in the news. It could get traction and who knows
it’s nothing, ‘old man yells at cloud’ seems to summarize it adequately. Even if every person in the US read it, it doubt it would have a measurable impact
-hey I thought the art ai and mtg headlines weren’t bad but it seemed to be
there I can at least see something potentially negative that is relatively widely accepted as such, the article does not really condemn WotC for ‘woke stuff’, it just reports that some grognards are complaining but ends with saying it is the right direction
-I defended with and the legal agreement that backfired on them
not sure I can parse that, so you defended them over the OGL? Guess we are on opposite sides of that too then…
-I defended and still defend them on the handling of Larian and Bg3 but a lot of folks in the video game world disagree
not sure what that argument is even about, I’d say WotC dropped the ball though, so there is no chance for a DLC / more money for WotC from that. Business wise that seems like a loss
You can call Elon whatever you want but I would argue based on a guess that a lot of people here don’t want him to run this brand and if he did I will still be here.
sure, but falling in line proactively to avoid that is the last thing we need. We should ignore that nutcase and he will do whatever he will do, no reason to kowtow to him on anything. I doubt he has any interest in buying WotC, so I am not particularly concerned
Wotc has made a lot of miscalculations in the last 2 years+
yes, being inclusive and staying current is not one of them, and it has been ongoing for more than two years too…
I’d argue none of the mistakes made much of a difference in the long run either. The biggest / only impact was the OGL fiasco, and even that ended up being minimal because they reacted fast enough
So not seeing any negative impact from the 2024 changes either
