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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9244649" data-attributes="member: 18">WotC have huge problems with their goals and direction with D&D.They're really not seemingly clued in to their actual fans at all, and even when it looks, superficially, like they might be, they find incredible ways to screw things up (c.f. Strixhaven), or to just bring out books that relatively few people actually seem to care about. It seems like they have this weird, disconnected meta-strategy which isn't like, ruining them or anything, but I think has actually limited D&D's success pretty notably (which is quite a thing to say given how successful 5E has been, I am aware). I think this is partly down to upper management just letting the D&D team bumble along (for better or worse), because upper management is convinced that longer-term, D&D will primarily be a subscription service with a sideline as a lifestyle product, not this weird little game with books and dice and so on.Plus, they apparently had absolutely very little faith in Larian - which is bizarre because the game had been in Early Access for like, three years? More? A long time. And it was obviously something special. Indeed for about a year it was obviously going to be something REALLY special. What's really weird is that MtG's D&D line actually had quite a lot of BG3 stuff going on, whereas D&D's own line had virtually none.Part of it here I think is Microsoft's close links with WotC (in terms of virtually the entire upper management of WotC and Hasbro being ex-MS). MS were utterly contemptuous of BG3, for reasons unknown. They offered Larian $5m to make it a Gamepass game. $5m. To forgo a very large proportion of their PC sales, and likely Xbox sales too. Absolutely insane and insulting offer. But again it shows this pattern of being disconnected from reality. Relatively few people thought BG3 would be a $1bn+ product, sure, but it was definitely going to sell millions of copies - indeed it already had! Yet to WotC and MS? Pfffft... it's a nothingburger.BG3 also nerfs the ranges and blast areas of a lot of D&D's spells and even weapons, note.</blockquote>

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