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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alhambra" data-source="post: 5385960" data-attributes="member: 99684">Perhaps I should state it's more of a underlying feeling I get from WotC lately. Basically an opinion that I don't specifically adhere to, because otherwise I'd be following the subliminal text between the power boxes.I'm not saying it's a conspiracy or front. It is not. However, I still feel confused and insecure, as if it were. What bothers me is that WotC seems okay with that. They haven't given me the expected hug after the heartfelt apology, or even the cold apology after one breaks a coveted toy.WotC produces and releases a good to my nerdish community. We buy said goods with little to no questions if everything goes off as it should because without it we would have to create another fantasy dice-rolling medium, but it wouldn't be universally accepted or updated (because we wouldn't be paid for it). Enter the pirates, and they steal the goods because they're twisted and evil and poor and that's what pirates do, hat, eye-patch, and all. WotC alters the good in a way that negatively impacts both pirates and consumers, but leaves a nasty taste in our mouths specifically because we're paying for a good that tastes of steel wool after the rigorous scrubbing it has gone through.We follow. We understand. All of this makes sense, so far. But here's where they lose me:I cannot, for the life of me, find an open and official address that these actions were instated due to piracy. Instead of this, they make up a slew of other reasons to why they're dropping the invisible hammer. These reasons, albeit that some are legitimate, make me feel like WotC thinks I'm a moron. I mean, I am, but I don't want to feel like one. It's a bad feeling to have. Is it so hard to say, "Sir, we're protecting the value of your good by making sure the money you spent on it was not in vain"? I digress from my rant.I feel, personally, that WotC is wagging a finger at me, ME from afar as if I've done something wrong. I feel, again only in my opinion, that they sent me a box in the mail with a letter attached that reads, "Thanks for being a subscriber. Here's the sum of all our efforts using your money". The figurative box, of course, contains a paddle ball freshly soiled upon. Yeah, it works, but it's covered in poop, it isn't what I paid for, and I feel insecure using it.Just my opinion and personal gripe. I just want things to go back to the way they were. Please go easy on me.</blockquote>

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