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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9443394" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah that's what gets me a bit - people will defend the most obviously dumb and unnecessary decisions WotC takes, then where WotC does flip them, suddenly the same people are often like "Well, they listened, didn't they?" and it's like sure, but why were you so vehemently saying they didn't need to 10 minutes ago lol? (To be clear I am NOT referring to anyone in this thread, for example, I have not seen [USER=6801845]@Oofta[/USER] defend them overwriting the 2014 stuff, only fixing the problem, which makes more sense to me, so please do not include yourselves in this critique!)I will say fewer people defended this particular decision than usual, but it was still more than rationally should. And people have defended truly atrocious stuff, include the minstrelsy stuff with the Hadozee, which was like, laughably bad! The very second I saw the art, I, an old (46) British cis(ish)-hetero white male went "OH NOOOOOOO" even before I knew it was "controversial". But people were like "No it's fine!" and coming up with the most ludicrous reasons lol.What you seem to be missing from your equation here is that this isn't separate coinflips or something.The more errors WotC makes the the shorter-tempered people get with them. The more errors WotC makes, the faster opinions grow to the size where they need to be addressed. Even from a cynical POV, reporting/Tweets/etc on this get more and more clicks as WotC makes more and more errors.We've seen a real change in social media about WotC, from a situation where the best way to get clicks and so on was to praise D&D/WotC, to one where being somewhat critical (not hateful, but critical) and skeptical of WotC is much more likely to get clicks.That publicity may not have immediate negative effect on WotC/D&D's performance, but it doesn't help, it really does help, and it builds up. It doesn't go away just because they fix something. It's like if you have neighbours who keeps doing stupid stuff, like, leaving his trash out and the foxes rip up the bags, cuts his tree and then just dumps the branches in the streets, plays ultra-loud music at 2am because he was drunk and not thinking. No maybe every time he fixes this - he tidies the bags, he removes the branches, he apologies for the music and commits to not doing it again, so you don't hate him like the other neighbour who tried to put a massive helium tank in your bin and fled when you saw him doing it (real example lol), but you now think this guy is, at best, a flake, and you expect him to do more stupid stuff, and with good reason!</blockquote>

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