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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9585576" data-attributes="member: 54840">I think it could become the dominant platform where high-dollar 5e content is sold and it becomes more dominant the more stuff they sell there, including their own. This is what makes D&amp;D Beyond different than any other platform – they are the number one producer of the material they sell on D&amp;D Beyond by like two orders of magnitude. It's so much more that they aren't even considered a competitor when comparing a book like Tome of Beasts to Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse – but they are a competitor to the other publishers on their own platform.Yes, absolutely publishers can sell the same material on other platforms like Amazon, DTRPG, local game shops, their own store, and others. That's really great. But we've seen with Amazon what happens when a single platform becomes so big you can't ignore it – you have to play ball with them at some level. I've seen and heard from several sources that about half of D&amp;D players use D&amp;D Beyond. That's not everyone, but if more publishers feel like they can't reach their audience without being on D&amp;D Beyond, that feels like a problem to me.The big thing I worry about with the growth of D&amp;D Beyond is the centralization of the hobby around a single company we can't trust to benefit the hobby over their own drive for profits. My feeling is that D&amp;D Beyond getting bigger, both in the products it licenses and the customers who use it, makes our hobby less resilient to future corporate shenanigans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9585576, member: 54840"] I think it could become the [I]dominant[/I] platform where high-dollar 5e content is sold and it becomes [I]more dominant[/I] the more stuff they sell there, including their own. This is what makes D&D Beyond different than any other platform – they are the number one producer of the material they sell on D&D Beyond by like two orders of magnitude. It's so much more that they aren't even considered a competitor when comparing a book like Tome of Beasts to Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse – but they [I]are[/I] a competitor to the other publishers on their own platform. Yes, absolutely publishers can sell the same material on other platforms like Amazon, DTRPG, local game shops, their own store, and others. That's really great. But we've seen with Amazon what happens when a single platform becomes so big you can't ignore it – you [I]have[/I] to play ball with them at some level. I've seen and heard from several sources that about half of D&D players use D&D Beyond. That's not everyone, but if more publishers feel like they can't reach their audience [I]without[/I] being on D&D Beyond, that feels like a problem to me. The big thing I worry about with the growth of D&D Beyond is the centralization of the hobby around a single company we can't trust to benefit the hobby over their own drive for profits. My feeling is that D&D Beyond getting bigger, both in the products it licenses and the customers who use it, makes our hobby less resilient to future corporate shenanigans. [/QUOTE]

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