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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9207534" data-attributes="member: 27957">&quot;Oh no! WotC will provide a better customer experience and help promote high quality 3PP releases! Whatever will we do?! Surely, this is the next step in their insidious scheme to seize control of the TTRPG market and then do dark and horrible things to us all.&quot;Look. I know we've all got some PTSD from the regular cycle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification" target="_blank">enshittification</a>, where tech companies lure you in with Too Good To Be True offers and then slowly dial up the rent seeking once they've captured a large audience. But WotC is not a tech company or disruptor startup, riding a flood of venture capital funds to try to corner the market before they jack up their rates. They're not trying to knife all their competitors in the back before they turn everything into a subscription service that can delete the books you've &quot;bought&quot; at will.Are they saints? No, they're part of Hasbro, a large capitalist corporation that has unreasonable growth expectations. But they're not part of the enshittification wave, and the actual employees at D&amp;D headquarters love the hobby. So when they do something that makes things better, I'm not going to twist it around into a sign of how they're trying to destroy D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 9207534, member: 27957"] "Oh no! WotC will provide a better customer experience and help promote high quality 3PP releases! Whatever will we do?! Surely, this is the next step in their insidious scheme to seize control of the TTRPG market and then do dark and horrible things to us all." Look. I know we've all got some PTSD from the regular cycle of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification']enshittification[/URL], where tech companies lure you in with Too Good To Be True offers and then slowly dial up the rent seeking once they've captured a large audience. But WotC is not a tech company or disruptor startup, riding a flood of venture capital funds to try to corner the market before they jack up their rates. They're not trying to knife all their competitors in the back before they turn everything into a subscription service that can delete the books you've "bought" at will. Are they saints? No, they're part of Hasbro, a large capitalist corporation that has unreasonable growth expectations. But they're not part of the enshittification wave, and the actual employees at D&D headquarters love the hobby. So when they do something that makes things better, I'm not going to twist it around into a sign of how they're trying to destroy D&D. [/QUOTE]

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