D&D 5E (2024) New leak looks real bad

[eyeheartawk]

Won't somebody please think of poor WotC. They have to make a living. It's not like they've made more money year after year than D&D had ever made before or anything. But yeah, despite that evidence to the contrary D&D players just don't spend money.

 

[Haplo781]

Twice the monthly charge for Warcraft or HBO. A third more than the most expensive Netflix tier.

Does that really sound credible to you?

Yes.

 

[Minigiant]

Apparently MMOs are their way to monetize the under-monetized players.

Tiered Subscriptions are the way most industries monetize the under-monetized players these days.

 

[ersatzphil]

What part of Hasbro-WotC planning a fee of $30 per month, is difficult to believe?

I mean - the price, as others have pointed out, is real high but plausible. I'm more skeptical in a "who on earth is this for?" sort of way.

 

[Scribe]

I'll never understand why they didnt create a top tier MMO. AI DM's, I mean just go all in on an MMO instead.

 

[Mallus]

Yes.

What we have here is a difference of opinion.

 

[Haplo781]

I mean - the price, as others have pointed out, is real high but plausible. I'm more skeptical in a "who on earth is this for?" sort of way.

You doubt that C-suite executives are out of touch and don't know the value of a dollar?

 

[mamba]

What part of Hasbro-WotC planning a fee of $30 per month, is difficult to believe?

the planning part

 

[tetrasodium]

Homebrew banned at the Free Tier seem 10% fine to me.

You don't get server memory space to create stuff for fee.

I'm sorry. At a certain point, D&D fans have to spend money. Everything can be free. Not just for WOTC but 3rd party publishers. I mean this whole disaster happened because Hasbro finally looked at D&D, realized at a table of 5 people only 2 of them were spending money, and went "how do I snatch money out the other 3?"

This is the 21st century, making money off nonpaying website users is a solved 20th century problem.

 

[Mallus]

This is just a reminder that in the year of our lord 2023 Netflix is still out here charging extra to stream 4K.

One the of many reasons I finally put them on pause for a while.