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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8793707" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I mean, it will matter, I'd personally say, because if they change the game just enough, they'll make it so it's awkward to use 5E-based stuff with it.</p><p></p><p>If they combined that with basically dropping cooperation with 3PPs, and continuing the walled-garden approach with D&D Beyond, whilst strongly motivating people to use Beyond, I think they might cause some real issues for 3PPs.</p><p></p><p>Hard disagree.</p><p></p><p>Do you work in a corporate environment? If so this seems surprisingly... uncynical? Unrealistic? If you don't, then it's more understandable. But I do and yeah no. People at this level get hired for clear reasons. Sometimes, rarely, those reasons are stuff like nepotism, or mates-type nepotism, but much more often, you can see why the person has been hired.</p><p></p><p>In this case, it's extremely clear from his CV why he's been hired.</p><p></p><p>Digital transformation - specifically moving people from physical stuff to digital stuff. That is his background. That is why he has been hired. You know a ton more than that, too. Just read his LinkedIn. Literally everything you're repeating the most positive/humanising stuff you can find, which is 100% irrelevant to what he'll actually do in this role. If you actually look though, this is someone who has been hired to take D&D digital. There's no real question about it.</p><p></p><p>(Also, he was a CO in the Marines, not Enlisted, so let's not get any ideas that he was some kind of "man of the people" or "tough grunt". If you go look on dndnext reddit, there are some ex-Marines with some <em>opinions</em> about COs in the Marines lol. Not the flattering kind.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8793707, member: 18"] I mean, it will matter, I'd personally say, because if they change the game just enough, they'll make it so it's awkward to use 5E-based stuff with it. If they combined that with basically dropping cooperation with 3PPs, and continuing the walled-garden approach with D&D Beyond, whilst strongly motivating people to use Beyond, I think they might cause some real issues for 3PPs. Hard disagree. Do you work in a corporate environment? If so this seems surprisingly... uncynical? Unrealistic? If you don't, then it's more understandable. But I do and yeah no. People at this level get hired for clear reasons. Sometimes, rarely, those reasons are stuff like nepotism, or mates-type nepotism, but much more often, you can see why the person has been hired. In this case, it's extremely clear from his CV why he's been hired. Digital transformation - specifically moving people from physical stuff to digital stuff. That is his background. That is why he has been hired. You know a ton more than that, too. Just read his LinkedIn. Literally everything you're repeating the most positive/humanising stuff you can find, which is 100% irrelevant to what he'll actually do in this role. If you actually look though, this is someone who has been hired to take D&D digital. There's no real question about it. (Also, he was a CO in the Marines, not Enlisted, so let's not get any ideas that he was some kind of "man of the people" or "tough grunt". If you go look on dndnext reddit, there are some ex-Marines with some [I]opinions[/I] about COs in the Marines lol. Not the flattering kind.) [/QUOTE]
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