mamba
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yes, you always were the 'wait and see, WotC is our friend, it will all turn out better than the announcement made it sound' guy to meYou think that I’m arguing that this is right? Seriously?
Maybe I misunderstood, but that is how I perceived it
agreed, which made me think you do not care, because you only focused on the bottom lineI’m not arguing about the morality of this at all.
What cliff? Not buying WotC products any more is no cliff. Not playing 5e any more (which is fewer than the not buying new material group) is no cliff. We simply switch lanes, no cliff in sight. If there is a cliff, that is a cliff for WotC, but I see it more as a speedbump now and then a steady decline over years.I’m simply pointing out that in the great rush that we might be running off a cliff. Like I said I’m SCARED about this idea. I most certainly do not want it to be true.
They are about to throw away the one thing that ensured they would stay on top of the hill. Now they are just one TTRPG among many. The largest one, granted, but nothing special any more.
If the community manages to join together around a new core of maybe 2 or three other games, those will eat away at D&D and grow while WotC squandered its goodwill and now struggles to attract new players (CR, and all the other channels no longer draw people towards D&D in that scenario, they switched over).
They will stay at the top for years, but they ensured that there will be challengers where today they were safe that there would be none.
on this we agree, I still prefer to do the right thing rather than caving to corporate greedI’m saying that if WotC is purely focusing on the bottom line, and their bottom line isn’t being affected as much as people are assuming, then all the back and forth about “doing the right thing” doesn’t matter.
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