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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9095000" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yes, presumably because they strongly associated that brand with the 1.1 and 2.0 OGLs and the OGL debacle in general, and thus turned what was already a kind of questionable branding choice (if you really don't want people to see it as a new edition, why are you naming it like it is one?) into an actively negative brand.</p><p></p><p>Further, they'd been calling the 3D VTT "One D&D", and they've got to have poured far, far more money into that at this point than they have into D&D itself over the last few years (given the sheer number of employees - 250+ as opposed to what, like 30? Less?), so presumably they're going to rename that as well. It was a dumb and confusing name to be calling the VTT anyway.</p><p></p><p>I do think going "all in" on digital is, really, not the best plan. And I say that as someone who pretty much only buys digital products for 5E. I get that it's technically forward-looking and so on, but this is all just a higher-budget rerun on 4E's loftier goals, but with a system and playerbase who aren't as into that approach (I think, anyway).</p><p></p><p>Also good luck convincing Larian to make any more D&D games in the foreseeable future. BG3 is beyond amazing and we'll probably see a "Definitive Edition" with a lot of QoL improvements and some revised/improved content/gameplay eventually, based on Larian's track record and the fact that a 97 Metacritic CRPG (it stayed at that when it went from 14 to 26 critic reviews, I note!) is likely to be fairly evergreen, but an expansion or the like? Seems a little unlikely based on Larian's statements (admittedly mostly made before 97% Metacritic, 800k simultaneous players on Steam and so on). Another full D&D game in the same engine? Seems extremely unlikely and would probably be pretty far out, time-wise.</p><p></p><p>And who else is going to make a game that's even like an 85-90%-type game? All the big AAAs either don't make CRPGs or exclusively use their own IPs to do so.</p><p></p><p>None of WotC's owned studios is an AAA, despite Archetype having been in recruiting mode for like, 4+ years now. They doubled in size in 2021, but have been sitting at 70 employees for about six months now, just flat. Larian has 400 employees and was able to increase from less significantly less than 100 to that number in about 3 years, I note.</p><p></p><p>I don't think I've seen it used derogatorily yet, but it's certainly been used as an identifier for the new edition or whatever you want to call it.</p><p></p><p>But WotC hopelessly tainted it by using that term in associated with the OGL debacle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9095000, member: 18"] Yes, presumably because they strongly associated that brand with the 1.1 and 2.0 OGLs and the OGL debacle in general, and thus turned what was already a kind of questionable branding choice (if you really don't want people to see it as a new edition, why are you naming it like it is one?) into an actively negative brand. Further, they'd been calling the 3D VTT "One D&D", and they've got to have poured far, far more money into that at this point than they have into D&D itself over the last few years (given the sheer number of employees - 250+ as opposed to what, like 30? Less?), so presumably they're going to rename that as well. It was a dumb and confusing name to be calling the VTT anyway. I do think going "all in" on digital is, really, not the best plan. And I say that as someone who pretty much only buys digital products for 5E. I get that it's technically forward-looking and so on, but this is all just a higher-budget rerun on 4E's loftier goals, but with a system and playerbase who aren't as into that approach (I think, anyway). Also good luck convincing Larian to make any more D&D games in the foreseeable future. BG3 is beyond amazing and we'll probably see a "Definitive Edition" with a lot of QoL improvements and some revised/improved content/gameplay eventually, based on Larian's track record and the fact that a 97 Metacritic CRPG (it stayed at that when it went from 14 to 26 critic reviews, I note!) is likely to be fairly evergreen, but an expansion or the like? Seems a little unlikely based on Larian's statements (admittedly mostly made before 97% Metacritic, 800k simultaneous players on Steam and so on). Another full D&D game in the same engine? Seems extremely unlikely and would probably be pretty far out, time-wise. And who else is going to make a game that's even like an 85-90%-type game? All the big AAAs either don't make CRPGs or exclusively use their own IPs to do so. None of WotC's owned studios is an AAA, despite Archetype having been in recruiting mode for like, 4+ years now. They doubled in size in 2021, but have been sitting at 70 employees for about six months now, just flat. Larian has 400 employees and was able to increase from less significantly less than 100 to that number in about 3 years, I note. I don't think I've seen it used derogatorily yet, but it's certainly been used as an identifier for the new edition or whatever you want to call it. But WotC hopelessly tainted it by using that term in associated with the OGL debacle. [/QUOTE]
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