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Again, the fact that I can't personally change capitalism doesn't mean I shouldn't have and express my concerns.

But they don't have to know about the product or the customers in order to make those decisions. They just need to own enough of it to have a worthwhile vote. They have no built-in motivation to do anything that doesn't result in near-immediate "number goes up".

No, would you? Come on, man.

My response to this is simply to nerf or remove most options that circumvent challenges like light and food (basic survival, functionally) at low levels. Level Up does a pretty good job with this in some areas, nerfing and removing spells and other abilities that make survival irrelevant as a...

Unless you're going to march on WotC and start making demands, issues with the rules need to be handled at the table level, which means talking with your GM and/or players. It is what it is. What "other games" are set in stone and immune to houseruling?

Private companies are often owned by folks with a closer connection to the product being produced. Shareholders have no particular need to know much at all about the company or the product, just how much they're getting each quarter. Obviously neither of those concerns are always true, but they...

That doesn't make it not a thing worth being irritated about.

Why and how a publically-owned company chooses to increase their profits matters to me. I don't trust the motives of companies controlled by shareholders. I don't know what to tell you.

Again, WotC was already making plenty of profit off D&D. They were hardly hurting for cash.

That's the division of power in trad games. You talk to your GM and they help, or you step out, or you live with it. You can't make someone play the game the way you want. Not sure what solution you're looking for here.

Because the thought process wasn't "How can we make more and better product, thus serving our customer base?" It was, "How can we get even more money from our customers, thus serving our shareholders?"

Since you don't suffer stat loss if you succeed on the psionics roll, the ability isn't annoying to use. Its annoying to acquire.

I was talking about the stat loss for failing the roll.

WotC was making plenty of money off of D&D before they decided they needed to find ways to make more.

Why didn't your DM just say they didn't like psionics and didn't want it in their game?

Of all the people I game with, or have gamed with recently, and their gaming friends I know of, only a couple have heard of Draw Steel or Daggerheart, and it's because either I told them or they are following the hobby as closely as I am. The tip of the iceberg is pretty small, and mostly just...

Yeah, in one of my favorite fantasy RPGs you literally can't without special training.

Yeah, to me those are fundamentally different activities, and they don't feel the same at all.

I don't think any game designer not working for WotC should expect more than that, even if sometimes they get it.

Armor, particularly heavy armor, is really unappreciated in a lot of RPGs IMO.