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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 8635978" data-attributes="member: 47839">[USER=67338]@GMforPowergamers[/USER] Corporations are not people despite what the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled. They are complex entities (especially the larger ones) the interaction of corporate culture, leadership, and workforce (internal forces) with customers, economic reality, societal changes (external forces) means that what was true say, 5 years ago, is no longer true today. If you are expecting any corporation to "keep their word" in the face of a everchanging business environment then you are applying a standard that is quite simply unrealistic.You keep talking about how WotC is somehow going to capriciously end D&D Beyond (for reasons). I cannot with 100% certainty say that WotC would never end D&D Beyond. Yet, that feeling you have doesn't take into consideration factors such as WotC's new CEO comes from an electronic gaming background at Microsoft (Xbox) and every indication points to WotC leveraging their already existing digital presence and then doubling down on it. Despite it's flaws D&D Beyond is a very successful platform for delivering digital character creation and is starting to be a decent DMs tool for managing a campaign. Unless you are Facebook or Google, corporations generally do not buy something to just kill it (it is just too damn expensive to do that). Fact is if they wanted to build their own version of D&D Beyond to replace it they had a cheaper option, just don't renew the D&D license for D&D Beyond and let it die.I get it, 3.5 D&D was a flash point for some in D&D Fandom. It was one more trauma in a string of them stretching back to when TSR under the leadership of Gygax started killing off 3rd party partners and eventually TSR going after fan sites after his ouster (TSR Online on AOL era, anyone). Thing is this game has been around for nearly 50 years. There has been a churn on the people in charge of running the business that is D&D. The very people that made the executive decisions about 3.5 and 4e are no longer with the company (yes, some of the creatives are still there) and the trauma of 4e on WotC and their desire to not repeat its mistakes brought us to the long playtest that led to 5e.We are all reading tea leaves here. We all have incomplete information. But, taking the delisting of two books that have been superseded by a new one and then extrapolating that this is start of a new awful phase of WotC's stewardship of D&D is at best false positive hit on a flight or fight response. I am neither saying the "sky is falling" nor am I saying "everything is awesome." It. Just. Is. The game will continue and my tables will continue.</blockquote>

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