WotC New D&D survey from WotC as part of the 50th anniversary year.

[FitzTheRuke]

I gave WotC a positive rating. On the balance of things, I generally like what they do. Mind you, my main interest in them is how they handle D&D, and TSR set a low bar.

And did it ask you any further questions beyond a page of "What do you think of D&D" followed by a page of "What do you think of WotC", or did it "hang up" on you?

 

[Parmandur]

I gave WotC a positive rating. On the balance of things, I generally like what they do. Mind you, my main interest in them is how they handle D&D, and TSR set a low bar.

That's about why I put neutral: generally ,I think the cynical profit maximization generally works out for the best because at least it is normally competent.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I literally get accused of being a WotC shill on occasion, but I have a hard time imagining many people would say that.

I'd like to think that I'm generally positive too, but I can't bring myself to be more than "neutral" with any company that just fired a chunk of its staff at Christmas. On the eve of a Big Year. After they turned in big profits.

But I don't really blame WotC for much of that. It's Hasbro I'd like to shake my fist at.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

That's about why I put neutral: generally ,I think the cynical profit maximization generally works out for the best because at least it is normally competent.

I gotta disagree with you there. I've seen my industry constantly kept down by cynical profit maximization - again and again. I find cynical profit maximization to be the cause of very nearly every problem in the world.

 

[The Glen]

I know we could have handled the Magic the Gathering problem without having to resort to the Pinkertons, but I like the personal touch you can only get from Hired Goons.

 

[Parmandur]

I'd like to think that I'm generally positive too, but I can't bring myself to be more than "neutral" with any company that just fired a chunk of its staff at Christmas. On the eve of a Big Year. After they turned in big profits.

But I don't really blame WotC for much of that. It's Hasbro I'd like to shake my fist at.

I don't really expect better of publicly traded companies: nature of the beast.

 

[Parmandur]

I gotta disagree with you there. I've seen my industry constantly kept down by cynical profit maximization - again and again. I find cynical profit maximization to be the cause of very nearly every problem in the world.

Well, I take cynical profit maximalization as the norm for a large company: the difference between TSR and WotC is being bad at it, or good at it.

Real change would require systematic change, above and beyond any company or actor, but that is well outside the Perdue of this forum.

 

[Parmandur]

I know we could have handled the Magic the Gathering problem without having to resort to the Pinkertons, but I like the personal touch you can only get from Hired Goons.

I say good morning to a Pinkerton every day at work, as do lots of other people.

WotC made plenty of bad decisions last year, but frankly that dude messed around and found out.

 

[Reynard]

I gotta disagree with you there. I've seen my industry constantly kept down by cynical profit maximization - again and again. I find cynical profit maximization to be the cause of very nearly every problem in the world.

It is called enshittification and it is real: take a thing that people like because it is good, and squeeze it for every last cent until it dies.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

That's awesome. Really like their pushing the school front. Hope your school club is going great!

It is, thank you!