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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8840749" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Partly it's algorithm, but partly it's that people who make a business out of commenting on D&D have a very different relationship with it than the rest of us.When the last Star Wars movie came out the one bit of youtube commentary I found most telling about the general response, was James Rolfe (of AVGN fame) mentioning that he was done reviewing Star Wars movies, because he was tired of feeling obligation, usually falling around Christmas, to review something he just didn't care about that much anymore. To me, as a Star Wars viewer, Christmas releases meant that I got to see them for the first time together with my family, which varying underlying quality of the films aside helped make it always a fun event, but for him, having made his hobby his job it meant that he had to go to work when he wanted to be doing other things.I'm not a tuber of any variety, but I do do a little bit of paid DM work, and I will say that it makes me much more resentful when looking at the playtests, because where other people might see interesting rule experiments they might try or ignore I see a bunch of arbitrary rule changes that, if adopted, I will be obligated to master and semi-obligated to incorporate into my game if I want to keep being able to market myself as a paid DM of the most current edition.</blockquote>