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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EpicureanDM" data-source="post: 9210879" data-attributes="member: 6996003">Just because they're selling more doesn't mean they aren't losing money. And I disagree that they're selling more.This is an opportunistic marriage of convenience between the D&DB team - who operate largely independent of the D&D books team - and RFC. The acquisition of D&DB blew a $140m-ish hole in the D&D segment's balance sheet. (Maybe it's on WotC's? Hard to say, but if I were the M:tG executives, I'd fight that tooth and nail.) D&DB isn't getting enough revenue from the D&D book team's products, so they're pulling out all the stops to get some sort of revenue from other sources, i.e. third-party licensing. RFC's just looking for more digital sales and D&DB's a huge potential market for them. There's so much gullibility for them to take advantage of. On the one hand, there's someone at WotC who thinks that RFC will give them some sort of positive PR bump for the new VTT stuff. Anyone who looks at RFC's usual WotC content should be under no illusions about the disdain and cynicism with which RFC views the management of WotC. And yet some WotC/D&D team leaders have given RFC an exclusive glimpse into the VTT that will generate views on YouTube. This goes beyond the idea that the D&D team's trying to win over their worst critics into something more sad.On the other hand, look at the benefit of the doubt being extended in this thread. How could anyone familiar with RFC's content not be skeptical, cynical, and suspicious of this new RFC video? RFC's whole shtick centers around their belief that WotC's executives and leaders are terrible at their jobs and actively hostile to the game's design and financial future. But when offered an exclusive peek at the current state of the VTT by those same executives and leaders, RFC jumps. Why should we extend any credibility to whatever RFC's going to say about the VTT? It's pure clout-chasing by these guys. Despite the fact that 99% of their content takes a massive dump on WotC, RFC were invited to share their impressions of the VTT with their audience of people who presumably also believe that WotC's stewardship of D&D is a disaster. WotC's most ardent defenders can be found in this thread and they're leaping to defend a group of YouTubers who never miss an opportunity to paint WotC and the D&D team in the most unflattering light. It's a staggering display of the clout wielded by RFC and how gullible some of WotC's fans are.</blockquote>

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