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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8911375" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Watching the video now. </p><p></p><p>Wow. Damn. </p><p></p><p>This is basically everything I casually predicted months or even years ago, with a less doom-y mindset. It all makes sense, though if it's true, Chris Cao is a bit of an idiot, because he wants to go far too hard too fast. Also, given D&D Beyond was acquired against his advice, it sounds like WotC is <em>not</em> unified on his vision. That's not necessarily a good thing, but it's interesting. I can believe they thought $30 was viable whilst discussing it internally, not because they could get it, but because echo-chamber-type discussions often give people ridiculous ideas. I mean, I've been in discussions watching highly intelligent and educated men and women wildly overestimate how successful a legal product is going to be, and my careful attempts to burst balloons are accepted politely but basically ignored. Then unfortunately I was right lol.</p><p></p><p>The Blueprint 2.0 seems to be nigh-identical to what happened with 4E, as well. The whole thing back then was "These IPs need to make more money!" except back then it was only $50m, not hundreds of millions or more.</p><p></p><p>Fascinated to hear Dan Rawson is a good guy, and Williams is hands-off, that's kind of interesting. Unsurprised to hear Jeremy Crawford is well-regarded, he seems like he'd be a lot of fun when not trolling us all with Sage Advice. Good that he's respecting Ray's story and also unsurprising he was well-liked. Kyle Brink whilst theoretically outranking Chris Cao is allegedly basically working for him, which is interesting - it makes sense given the tens of millions being poured in to D&D - if you've twice the employees and twice the budget, even if the org chart says you're lower, that's not going to be how it works, politically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8911375, member: 18"] Watching the video now. Wow. Damn. This is basically everything I casually predicted months or even years ago, with a less doom-y mindset. It all makes sense, though if it's true, Chris Cao is a bit of an idiot, because he wants to go far too hard too fast. Also, given D&D Beyond was acquired against his advice, it sounds like WotC is [I]not[/I] unified on his vision. That's not necessarily a good thing, but it's interesting. I can believe they thought $30 was viable whilst discussing it internally, not because they could get it, but because echo-chamber-type discussions often give people ridiculous ideas. I mean, I've been in discussions watching highly intelligent and educated men and women wildly overestimate how successful a legal product is going to be, and my careful attempts to burst balloons are accepted politely but basically ignored. Then unfortunately I was right lol. The Blueprint 2.0 seems to be nigh-identical to what happened with 4E, as well. The whole thing back then was "These IPs need to make more money!" except back then it was only $50m, not hundreds of millions or more. Fascinated to hear Dan Rawson is a good guy, and Williams is hands-off, that's kind of interesting. Unsurprised to hear Jeremy Crawford is well-regarded, he seems like he'd be a lot of fun when not trolling us all with Sage Advice. Good that he's respecting Ray's story and also unsurprising he was well-liked. Kyle Brink whilst theoretically outranking Chris Cao is allegedly basically working for him, which is interesting - it makes sense given the tens of millions being poured in to D&D - if you've twice the employees and twice the budget, even if the org chart says you're lower, that's not going to be how it works, politically. [/QUOTE]
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