Matt Colville weighs in.

[Hussar]

The pricing isn't really the issue.

The value proposition is.

The value proposition with the Paizo offering is gigantic - it's permanent, owned, no-one-can-take-it-away access to stuff.

The value proposition with the WotC offering is much worse - it's temporary access to the VTT and presumably to the books for it, together some total rubbish like some free mini "drops" and so on.

Worse for you. Not for me.

Just because something is not for you doesn’t make it worse.

Do I get a vtt with my Paizo sub? No? Then it is if no value to me.

 

[SoonRaccoon]

Wonder what Matt thinks about the latest news?

According to what he said on his live stream he's "not paid to care about that" any more.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

According to what he said on his live stream he's "not paid to care about that" any more.

Strange stance...

 

[Ondath]

According to what he said on his live stream he's "not paid to care about that" any more.

Did he say this after the Creative Commons? If yes, this is extremely sad.

 

[overgeeked]

Did he say this after the Creative Commons? If yes, this is extremely sad.

Someone in chat mentioned the OGL and CC news yesterday and Matt said that as a direct response.

"Did you hear about...?"

"I'm not paid to care about that anymore."

He's done. He's out. D&D is "the boomer game" and WotC is "that Seattle company".

I get it. But it's weird to see. After watching hundreds of hours of Matt gush about D&D specifically and talk about how he'd be happy to play the game forever, etc. WotC directly attacked Matt, all the other creators, and all the fans. So Matt's done. It's too bad. It's WotC's fault entirely.

 

[Ondath]

Someone in chat mentioned the OGL and CC news yesterday and Matt said that as a direct response.

"Did you hear about...?"

"I'm not paid to care about that anymore."

He's done. He's out. D&D is "the boomer game" and WotC is "that Seattle company".

I get it. But it's weird to see. After watching hundreds of hours of Matt gush about D&D specifically and talk about how he'd be happy to play this game forever, etc. WotC directly attacked Matt, all the other creators, and all the fans. So Matt's done. It's too bad. It's WotC's fault entirely.

Oh wow. That's sad, really. In a video uploaded just two days ago, Jim Murphy (who from what I understand was Matt's DM in their social circle a long time ago) was talking about how Matt is the person who loves D&D the most. To go from there to "I'm not paid to care about that anymore" is... well, understandable, but quite tragic.

 

[Carlsen Chris]

Never heard of him.

 

[overgeeked]

Oh wow. That's sad, really. In a video uploaded just two days ago, Jim Murphy (who from what I understand was Matt's DM in their social circle a long time ago) was talking about how Matt is the person who loves D&D the most. To go from there to "I'm not paid to care about that anymore" is... well, understandable, but quite tragic.

It's probably that he's been attacked directly and hurt by this company so he's rightfully pissed. Most people who've been playing a decent amount of time recognize that it's not D&D per se that's amazing, rather it's RPGs in general that are amazing. That vaguely structured make believe is the juice, as Matt would say. It's got almost nothing to do with D&D as a game or TSR then WotC as companies.

 

[Aldarc]

Never heard of him.

Thank you for this valuable thread contribution.

 

[Haplo781]

Oh wow. That's sad, really. In a video uploaded just two days ago, Jim Murphy (who from what I understand was Matt's DM in their social circle a long time ago) was talking about how Matt is the person who loves D&D the most. To go from there to "I'm not paid to care about that anymore" is... well, understandable, but quite tragic.

Wonder if his enthusiasm for 4e has been affected.

 

[SoonRaccoon]

Strange stance...

This sums up my opinion of a lot of what he says.

 

[Malmuria]

Worse for you. Not for me.

Just because something is not for you doesn’t make it worse.

Do I get a vtt with my Paizo sub? No? Then it is if no value to me.

What matters is that it is valuable for enough people to be a sustainable product. We've seen, for example, live services in video games that just couldn't sustain a subscription base at the prices they were charging.

 

[Scribe]

Oh wow. That's sad, really. In a video uploaded just two days ago, Jim Murphy (who from what I understand was Matt's DM in their social circle a long time ago) was talking about how Matt is the person who loves D&D the most. To go from there to "I'm not paid to care about that anymore" is... well, understandable, but quite tragic.

I think we have seen a lot of different aspects or facets of the fandom this past few weeks.

People dont really grasp that for some its a game, for some its a hobby, for some its a life style, and for some, its quite factually part of their identity and self image that is as important, or more so, than any other single part of their person.

In that respect, yeah, some people are going to see this very very differently in terms of an 'attack' by Wizbro.

Being betrayed at such a level, regardless of if we feel that same sense, is going to leave a mark.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

He's done. He's out. D&D is "the boomer game" and WotC is "that Seattle company".

To be fair, Matt has referred to D&D as “the boomer game” on and off for a bit now in streams when he points out how the game adheres to designs set in place back in the early 70s evolved from wargaming. And I’ve heard him call it “the Seattle company“ for a few years at least. WotC buying the company he worked at and loved, then WotC promptly laying them off, seems to have left a bitter scar at WotC management ever since.

Matt has said he is one employee of MCDM, I think “chief writer and designer” or something like that, so in my opinion the response “I’m not paid to care about that anymore” I believe was referring to his extreme excitement as the progress made in designing the MCDM RPG. That is he is literally ”paid” to care about … not 5E, .