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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9428669" data-attributes="member: 23751">It sort of has to be valuable to us or they wouldn't make a profit.  What I am referring to is building trust after the OGL debacle.  To do that they need to go above and beyond(not D&D Beyond <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> ), and doing things that benefit us that don't make them profit is a good way to do that.  Doing things that are good for them and good for us in order to make profit isn't going above and beyond or earning trust back for what they did.There's a difference between doing nothing and doing nothing to earn trust back.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Release the 5.1 SRD into the CC.</li> </ul>This was done to earn back trust, but it wasn't enough.  It bandaged the wound enough to stop the hemorrhaging, but that was it.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Release the 5.1 SRD into four languages.</li> </ul>This builds a bit more back.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Build a whole suite of free after-school resources including downloadable PDF adventures for kids.</li> </ul>I don't count this, because it is self-serving.  This was done to build up the next generation of buyers, not to build back trust.  In my view it's not a bad thing, because businesses need to do things like this in order to survive and make money, but it's not a trust building exercise.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Continue support for outside digital tools like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds even while building their own platform.</li> </ul>This builds a bit more back.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add D&D support and pledged D&D 2024 support to Foundry – a downloadable and self-hostable VTT.</li> </ul>This builds a bit more back.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Released the 2024 D&D core books in print.</li> </ul>I agree with the others that this isn't something done to build trust. They were never going to stop print and a vocal minority that believed that they would going VTT only doesn't change this into a trust building exercise.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Offered an non-exclusive license to third-party publishers on D&D Beyond instead of the draconian DMs Guild license.</li> </ul>This is also self-serving.  They kinda had to do it because they couldn't stop 3PP and they want to move as much as possible to D&D Beyond.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Committed to releasing the 2024 D&D rules in the 5.2 SRD in February 2025.</li> </ul>This was another necessary move after the OGL debacle.After your post I responded that there were a few things you listed that I was unaware of that built some trust back. Some, but not all, and they've made multiple minor bad decisions in the same intervening amount of time between the debacle and now, so what small amount of trust was earned back by those actions was eroded away.</blockquote>

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