WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

[Mistwell]

My problem is that the specific forms of evidence you asked for are 1) personal experience, which can be dismissed as "it's jsut a you problem" in an attempt to undermine the whole issue by focusing on me as a single individual. I had been victim to this very line of argument before. b) asking if I have seen other people it happens to, which is ANECDOTAL evidence that is not substantial, and in fact serves to make one's argument weaker.

Could you provide request that doesn't look liike a blatant attempt at setting up a rhetorical trap?

I am not asking for any specific form of evidence. Feel free to present any form of evidence to support your theory. Just note more theory, hypotheticals, speculation, potential correlation without evidence of causation, and simple declarations of what you think is true are not evidence.

 

[hoffrg86]

I say tiny/1 because I stopped played 5e, well before the OGL scandal. So I didn't leave 5e due to wotc/hasbro unscrupulous business practices, I left because the game didn't appeal to me. I have no plans to play 2024, I did read through a friends copy though.

I did sign up for the AI D&D beyond thing, I'd mainly try it out of curiosity as an IT/programmer.

 

[Gecko85]

Pretty high for me. 4 or 5. Why? Because for years they've been releasing half-baked products. Adventure paths that create tons of work for the DM, DM and setting guides that are light on truly useful information, etc. Outside of a few outliers, the quality just hasn't been there. Then there's the OGL issue. Most of the responses in this thread have been "who cares, doesn't affect me", but the fact is they tried to cut 3rd party producers off at the knees and only backpedalled when they got caught and called out. That's not nothing.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I did sign up for the AI D&D beyond thing, I'd mainly try it out of curiosity as an IT/programmer.

What do you mean AI thing. Nothing on Beyond is AI based from what I know.

 

[cranberry]

WoTC is a corporation doing what corporations do, which is to find ways to increase profits.

I just don't get people who, even after the OGL scandal and their open contempt for the customer, still defend WoTC as if the company was their best friend.

 

[Oofta]

WoTC is a corporation doing what corporations do, which is to find ways to increase profits.

I just don't get people who, even after the OGL scandal and their open contempt for the customer, still defend WoTC as if the company was their best friend.

Best friend? Nah. Evil Inc? Also nah. Someone can not care much about a policy that was rolled back based on feedback, still like the product that a company produces, and not think a corporation gives a fig about me as an individual. No company of any significant size is my best friend. Neither are most mom and pop operations aren't my best friend either.

If they produce something I find useful and think I and my group will enjoy I'll consider buying it. Something they thought about doing two years ago and then never did it barely registers.

 

[CleverNickName]

When I say that I'm not at all bothered by that years-old OGL debacle, I'm not saying it in defense of Wizards of the Coast. I'm stating my personal opinion of a very old news story.

 

[payn]

When I say that I'm not at all bothered by that years-old OGL debacle, I'm not saying it in defense of Wizards of the Coast. I'm stating my personal opinion of a very old news story.

 

[Clint_L]

I have zero issues with the OGL fiasco. It was a self-own, but WotC went about as far as could be reasonably hoped to apologize and course correct. Putting 5e into the Creative Commons was much stronger than I expected, so we finished with a better result than if they had just left it in the SRD and there had never been a fiasco.

In terms of personal interactions with WotC, they actively support D&D in education with numerous freebies designed to give students access to the game, and that's why all of my kids have access to everything they need to start their own campaigns, which is crucial for what I am doing. So to the extent that I give two Fs about WotC, my feelings are positive.

 

[Shardstone]

From my perspective, as an early 30's adult born in the 90's, I live in a corporate-controlled oligarchy that is morally bankrupt and exploitive. If I took a stand against every company that acted like a scumbag snakeoil salesmen -- regardless of how great their product was -- I would have to make virtually everything myself. So, I accept the evils of Hasbro, especially since they are much lighter then other company's evils.