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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5435922" data-attributes="member: 2067">It sounds like YOU like to make straw-man arguments. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />It's clearly not the same thing to say &quot;Paywalls are generally a doofy idea&quot; and to say &quot;GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR EVERYTHING FOR FREEEEEEEEE.&quot;I don't even think I need to point out the host of scholarly, intelligent, uncompromisingly fact-based thought written on the issue since 1990 or so. You've got Google. Apples and oranges, for more than that reason. Recent Character Builder insanity aside, I generally agree. But it's a different way to consume the game. Renting, not owning.Not following the industry leader sounds ballsy as hell to me. Looks like it paid off for them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Regarding the OP: It'll be about 5-10 years before the folks in business school today get to implement the changes that actually need to happen to a lot of traditional media, and we'll see if they actually bother to do it (MBA's are not especially known to be the most creative lot on the whole) versus pursuing a paradigm of shaping the laws so that their business models are the only legal ones. But, really, this your post doesn't seem really concerned with that. Your post seems concerned with the fact that WotC's behavior recently has left you feeling alienated. Well, you're not alone. You're in great company. It's going to be okay. Just play your favorite game, try a new one, or move on. You don't need WotC to have fun. I hearby grant you permission. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5435922, member: 2067"] It sounds like YOU like to make straw-man arguments. ;) It's clearly not the same thing to say "Paywalls are generally a doofy idea" and to say "GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR EVERYTHING FOR FREEEEEEEEE." I don't even think I need to point out the host of scholarly, intelligent, uncompromisingly fact-based thought written on the issue since 1990 or so. You've got Google. Apples and oranges, for more than that reason. Recent Character Builder insanity aside, I generally agree. But it's a different way to consume the game. Renting, not owning. Not following the industry leader sounds ballsy as hell to me. Looks like it paid off for them. :) Regarding the OP: It'll be about 5-10 years before the folks in business school today get to implement the changes that [I]actually need to happen[/I] to a lot of traditional media, and we'll see if they actually bother to do it (MBA's are not especially known to be the most creative lot on the whole) versus pursuing a paradigm of shaping the laws so that their business models are the only legal ones. But, really, this your post doesn't seem really concerned with that. Your post seems concerned with the fact that WotC's behavior recently has left you feeling alienated. Well, you're not alone. You're in great company. It's going to be okay. Just play your favorite game, try a new one, or move on. You don't need WotC to have fun. I hearby grant you permission. ;) [/QUOTE]

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