People who "don't care" are nowadays likely to let others care for them. If the whole influencer class starts bombing on D&D then that will diffuse down to casual players, who will then start to think about switching to another game, or more likely stopping playing RPGs alltogether.I think it is a mistake to assume that most D&D players care enough about this to stop playing D&D, stop using Beyond, and stope engaging with 1D&D.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm a half ogre for whom D&D is a substantial part of my identity, and I'd still have to be incomprehensibly furious for that anger to carry me through completing even one whole oneD&D playtest survey while thinking about it critically enough to make sure my responses were damaging, whatever that even means.I am worried about this. I see so many people saying they will bomb those surveys... either that or just they have to adjust for "if someone just down votes everything and/or mentions the OGL throw that one out"
But are you helping? I think at best the activity could be described as "describing to WotC a product that you, personally, will like more, in the process making their job substantially harder than it would be without having to sift through survey response data."I'm just not super inclined to help WotC make a new product at the moment.
That assumes any interest in what 6e turns out to be. That's not where I am.I've been wondering if I'd do a breakdown of the next packet like I did for the three we have so far but ultimately I decided on reasons why I will. Even though I'm currently more enthusiastic about a couple rpgs we know little about it seems almost certain that at some point in the future I will ultimately play/run one or more games of 6e or something influenced by it. The next playtest happened when a big chunk of the gaming community was happily ignoring it to play pathfinder and that gave players turned off by pathfinder for whatever reason outsized clout in shaping what ultimately became 5e. Ignoring the playtest invites a repeat of that problem.
I hope not. Even completely ignoring the issue of trying to revoke the OGL 1.0a or not even comparing it to the OGL 1.0a, the nOGL 1.1 is an objectively very bad license for a potential licensee and something that no one in their right minds (even those that still support WotC) should ever agree to.At some point, there will be a generation of players which comes into the game and 1.1 OGL and sees it as normal.