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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9429091" data-attributes="member: 50987">For me, it's a little more complicated.On one hand, I agree with you: the company doesn't owe me anything, personally.  I don't require specific treatment or behavior on a personal level...but I have to carefully acknowledge my own privilege in this matter.  I am a white, cis-het, middle-aged, American man.  I don't need them to work harder, put in more effort, and go above and beyond to reach me as a customer--I'm their default customer.  (I'm everyone's default customer, in this country.)  You close your eyes and try to imagine a "D&D player," the image you summon will look a lot like me.  They don't owe me anything.But on the other hand, there are a lot of gamers whom they DO owe more effort.  There are lots of marginalized people who are--and have been for years-- excluded (or outright abused) in this hobby, and as the flagship RPG company, Wizards of the Coast owes them far more than an "oops, sorry."  There are environmental practices that need to be stopped, by all corporations across the world, if we want to mitigate the climate catastrophe--and as the flagship RPG company, Wizards of the Coast needs to lead the industry away from AI, NFTs, and other environmentally-irresponsible behaviors.  There are other issues as well (the way they manage their labor, pay their artists and writers, etc.) but you get the idea.  These are the areas where they, as the industry leader, need to step up and lead the whole industry.  That is where we customers need to leverage our privilege.I don't give an airborne coitus about photos getting posted on YouTube, and I couldn't care less about what is/is not going to be in the SRD or the 2024 revision.  But if they start using AI instead of paying their artists and writers, or if they pivot to NFTs or other financial foolishness, or if they start busting unions, or if they start blowing bigoted dogwhistles on social media, I'll walk.IMHO, YMMV, etc.</blockquote>

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