D&D General Mike Mearls sits down with Ben from Questing Beast

[KYRON45]

no, and the video does not claim that it did

But the caption at the top of the OP's video 100% says "DND's lead designer explains how 5e fell apart".
One of us may be, but the other one must be wrong here.

 

[overgeeked]

Without clickbait, how would the internet even function?

Yep. That's why in the OP I said, "Really not a fan of all the clickbait titles and thumbnails YouTubers I like are using lately." Professor DM has long since joined the clickbait army, it's too bad seeing Ben do it here. Hopefully it's not a regular new thing for him.

 

[Velderan]

Yep. That's why in the OP I said, "Really not a fan of all the clickbait titles and thumbnails YouTubers I like are using lately." Professor DM has long since joined the clickbait army, it's too bad seeing Ben do it here. Hopefully it's not a regular new thing for him.

Same because once they see the additional views their clickbait thumbnails bring in, they tend to shift their video topics towards topics that are more friendly to clickbait thumbnails and then I unsubscribe and move on.

 

[overgeeked]

Same because once they see the additional views their clickbait thumbnails bring in, they tend to shift their video topics towards topics that are more friendly to clickbait thumbnails and then I unsubscribe and move on.

Another victory for the "innovations" of capitalism.

 

[Zardnaar]

Another victory for the "innovations" of capitalism.

I don't mind clickbait titles. Content not so much.

I watch very few D&D channels though. Even fewer somewhat reliably.

 

[mamba]

The video's title and thumbnail says it did.

because thumbnails are always an accurate representation of the content

 

[Gradine]

And yet, when it's your livelihood on the line you're kind of stuck to the whims of the algorithm, which to hear from many a content creator has gotten substantially worse over the years.

 

[mamba]

But the caption at the top of the OP's video 100% says "DND's lead designer explains how 5e fell apart".
One of us may be, but the other one must be wrong here.

yes, that one is you, I have watched the video Mearls explicitly says D&D is the biggest selling TTRPG and will stay that. If that is your idea of falling apart, that seems to be more of a you thing

EDIT: here is a good summary

Mearls does not believe that D&D is doomed. He states that it will remain firmly in the number one spot. He does say that other games are growing, while D&D is shrinking a little, and that this is not normal. Usually the fortunes of other games rise and shrink with D&D.
Crowd funding and direct to consumer sales account for this, as well as some unhappiness with the game and Hasbro/WotC.

Mearls is critical of 5.5 because it is not giving GMs, especially beginners, the tools they need to homebrew, and there is a growing distance between the company and their fans. Mearls also believes the game is losing 5e's original ease of play philosophy. He also believes that as a large company they are slow to pivot.

It's a good discussion and Mearls has a lot to say, but there's no indication that he's looking forward to dancing on WotC's grave. And his own game is just something he's going to crowdfund because he's making the D&D he wants to play, and would love it to be in a physical form with nice art.

 

[Gradine]

because thumbnails are always an accurate representation of the content

Of course, we have on the other hand, the fact that Youtube Creators are the ones who are making their own thumbnails, and thus don't really have anyone else to blame (besides, again, the almighty algorithm) when the actual content of their videos is misconstrued.

 

[Aldarc]

This sounds very much like Shadowdark.

Sounds like it's probably something closer to 5e Basic than Shadowdark.