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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8853177" data-attributes="member: 7030755">I think every person here will have a different and probably ambivalent and contradictory reaction to living in a consumerist society.  Personally,  I think about how everyday consumerism, while being unobjectionable on the surface, creates a society that is not only highly unequal but relentlessly colonized by mega corporations.  Including in our silly little elfgame hobby.  For example, here are some "unobjectionable" monetization ideas• Advertisements: classic for a reason.  What if the new vtt had ads in a little corner of the screen.  Targeted adds, based your user info and spending habits, but just in a corner, hardly noticeable.  Most websites, including this one, have ads, so this isn't so radical an idea, and anyway the VTT is optional; if you don't like it, don't use it• Fun apps: Maybe an app where you can take a picture of your face and it turns it into a dnd character or even a 3d mini.  That would be so cool!  All stored on a cloud.  And they would store that dataset as well.  Perhaps sell it to AI 'artists'? Or anyone else that wants faces.• Giveaways: every time there is a new 5e release, various influencers on twitter offer contest giveaways.  Cool, simple way to drum up some excitement, get a conversation going online,  and someone gets a free book (or a lot of free books!)!.  Maybe instead of a giveaway you pay $10 for some skins, some custom digital dice, and maybe the chance to win a free copy of several books, similar to how loot boxes work• Currency: Will all these transactions going through dnd beyond, there will certainly be times when you have unspent money credits or maybe someone gives you a gift card.  Sure that's money that belongs to you, but maybe it's just easier to keep it with wotc, because you'll spend it in the store <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/24/how-amazon-and-walmart-make-money-from-unused-gift-cards.html" target="_blank">eventually</a>.  Call them WOTC-bucks.  And maybe Hasbro can use them as collateral on a loan?  (I honestly don't know the details of how it works, but I'm wondering just know if these monies count as revenue for tax purposes?  Are they even stored in the country of their origin?)'Etc.  There's no reason to say the sky falling, as all of the above are already happening with other companies, at a much larger scale and with much more dramatic effects on the societies in which we live.  So what does it matter if Hasbro gets with the times and starts monetizing its brand, right?</blockquote>

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