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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9209788" data-attributes="member: 6801845">But people certainly seem to be saying that DDB should support any and every 3PP that wants their product on DDB.&nbsp; People sound like they are saying WOTC is responsible for supporting 3PP, even if that is not their intent. For example people are pushing for an API. They have no reason to do that unless it serves their long term goals. My main point is that WOTC is not creating a walled garden; they are not restricting or making it more difficult for people to get someone else's product.&nbsp; They are making it easier to access some 3PP, that's not the same.&nbsp; It's like when Netflix and then other companies jumped into streaming.&nbsp;&nbsp; I no longer subscribe to a cable package which hurts the cable companies, but Netflix did not establish a walled garden.&nbsp; I just prefer to get my entertainment from streaming.&nbsp; Nothing is stopping or restricting me from buying another MM from Kobold Press, it's just easier for me to use the monsters I have in DDB.&nbsp;&nbsp; I get that it sucks for Kobold Press (or Matt Collville or any of the other 3PP I've purchased over the years) if I never spend money on their products ever again because they aren't in DDB.&nbsp; I just don't blame WOTC for not opening the floodgates, I accept that technology changes.&nbsp; Sometimes that means winners and losers, sometimes it means a consolidation of and industry in ways I don't care for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9209788, member: 6801845"] But people certainly seem to be saying that DDB should support any and every 3PP that wants their product on DDB. People sound like they are saying WOTC is responsible for supporting 3PP, even if that is not their intent. For example people are pushing for an API. They have no reason to do that unless it serves their long term goals. My main point is that WOTC is not creating a walled garden; they are not restricting or making it more difficult for people to get someone else's product. They [I]are[/I] making it easier to access some 3PP, that's not the same. It's like when Netflix and then other companies jumped into streaming. I no longer subscribe to a cable package which hurts the cable companies, but Netflix did not establish a walled garden. I just prefer to get my entertainment from streaming. Nothing is stopping or restricting me from buying another MM from Kobold Press, it's just easier for me to use the monsters I have in DDB. I get that it sucks for Kobold Press (or Matt Collville or any of the other 3PP I've purchased over the years) if I never spend money on their products ever again because they aren't in DDB. I just don't blame WOTC for not opening the floodgates, I accept that technology changes. Sometimes that means winners and losers, sometimes it means a consolidation of and industry in ways I don't care for. [/QUOTE]

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