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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9333351" data-attributes="member: 2525">The complainers didn't specify at the time. The accusation was made about Hasbro in a broad manner (much like it's made about AI and &quot;squeezing the brand for ever last dime&quot; and &quot;trying to make things all digital&quot; and a host of other things). Others at the time pointed out they already had microtransactions players liked, and that went mostly ignored. The broad general accusations continued to be made over and over again.If you don't believe me, go back through the accusations about microtransactions here at ENWorld. You will see there was no such specificity about &quot;good&quot; vs &quot;bad&quot; microtransactions (just as there is no acknowledgement of any &quot;good&quot; paths for those other topics I mentioned). It was all vague claims about corporate greed and making the entire game digital and cutting out third parties and broad brushing the entire concept of microtransactions. <a href="https://www.rjd20.com/2023/02/one-dnd-microtransactions-subscriptions-and-you.html" target="_blank">This article</a> was linked to in the OP of the thread here about the topic: all extreme over the top speculative negativity ending with a pitch for everyone to not play D&amp;D.WOTC then canceled the microtransactions they had. And predictably we got a resounding &quot;not those microtransactions!&quot; response.This is going to keep happening as long as people go into this automatic instinctive attack anything WOTC says or does mode because they have a general level of anger about WOTC.The time to be thoughtful and have a rational discourse and recognize nuance is when you have the reaction to the issue to begin with. If you think there are &quot;good&quot; and &quot;bad&quot; methods of doing something, the time to recognize the &quot;good&quot; things you want to see about that topic is when it comes up. Not just emotional angry doom and gloom and assuming always the worst possible motives whenever WOTC says anything at all, all while your passionate negativity is fed by clickbait people on YouTube and elsewhere who have an incentive to spin things as bad as possible and then move on to the next outrage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 9333351, member: 2525"] The complainers didn't specify at the time. The accusation was made about Hasbro in a broad manner (much like it's made about AI and "squeezing the brand for ever last dime" and "trying to make things all digital" and a host of other things). Others at the time pointed out they already had microtransactions players liked, and that went mostly ignored. The broad general accusations continued to be made over and over again. If you don't believe me, go back through the accusations about microtransactions here at ENWorld. You will see there was no such specificity about "good" vs "bad" microtransactions (just as there is no acknowledgement of any "good" paths for those other topics I mentioned). It was all vague claims about corporate greed and making the entire game digital and cutting out third parties and broad brushing the entire concept of microtransactions. [URL='https://www.rjd20.com/2023/02/one-dnd-microtransactions-subscriptions-and-you.html']This article[/URL] was linked to in the OP of the thread here about the topic: all extreme over the top speculative negativity ending with a pitch for everyone to not play D&D. WOTC then canceled the microtransactions they had. And predictably we got a resounding "not those microtransactions!" response. This is going to keep happening as long as people go into this automatic instinctive attack anything WOTC says or does mode because they have a general level of anger about WOTC. [B]The time to be thoughtful and have a rational discourse and recognize nuance is when you have the reaction to the issue to begin with.[/B] If you think there are "good" and "bad" methods of doing something, the time to recognize the "good" things you want to see about that topic is when it comes up. Not just emotional angry doom and gloom and assuming always the worst possible motives whenever WOTC says anything at all, all while your passionate negativity is fed by clickbait people on YouTube and elsewhere who have an incentive to spin things as bad as possible and then move on to the next outrage. [/QUOTE]

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