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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deganawida" data-source="post: 8900017" data-attributes="member: 67836">I've been speaking with a friend of mine, who cancelled his master tier account over this.  One thing that he keeps circling back to is that this is all about the VTT, but not in the way that I think has been expressed here.  He argues that the lockdown on 3PP is aimed at the future of the VTT, as well as the restriction on content.His two main points:First, that Hasbro will not want 3PP producing virtual minis or animations for DDB.  He specifically mentioned CR here; could you imagine how much money Matt Mercer could make by providing voice sets for DDB minis?Second, that Hasbro has the morality clause in order to head off ERP and bad-acting in the VTT.  He pointed out to me that porn is a very successful industry, and that there is a contingent of bard players who try to seduce anything and everything as a lark (what my wife calls, "Brothels & Bards"), and that Hasbro is looking forward in order to cut that off at the pass.What is interesting about these two points to me is that the show a future path where all play is moderated via DDB and held there, where D&D goes from being a toolkit to play with your friends, to a virtual experience with content moderation and delivery.  DM-as-service could be a real thing, if his conclusions are correct, and matchmaking would soon follow, akin to online shooters.  If that is the case, and I am not saying that it is, then "Dungeons & Dragons" as we have known it and played it is truly dead.  What we will have left is something more akin to MtG Arena (or whatever that video game I tried out on Steam 8 years ago was), and creative problem solving in games will be diminished due to not being programmed in DDB's VTT.Again, I am not saying that is the case, but he made a compelling argument and presented things to me which I had not considered, which is a very long-term view of Hasbro migrating to a complete live-service model of D&D.</blockquote>

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