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> It seems a bit odd, though There is a difference between making money and abusing year long commitment of the community to make people spent more money then

> It seems a bit odd, though There is a difference between making money and abusing year long commitment of the community to make people spent more money then they think is reasonable (or should afford give their financial spending). People which have decades of emotional commitment are quite easy to be pressured into "over-spending", through if you do it too much it can cost you your brand and many people their hobby. To some degree you can compare it to games having "just" in-app purchases in a well balanced way even if it might be a bit pay to win and it a game using all kinds of dark patterns to squeeze out every penny no matter the moral and being pay-hug to even have a chance to compete. Like for many of the current relevant formats the entry cost for not just playing causal with your friends is around 500€ for a _single_ deck and 1000+€ for going competitive; and just to be clear that's in a context where WotC managed to not (yet) kill of their brand by going too much overboard with pricing. But it means that if you are not a well earning single that hobby isn't quite affordable anymore. *Anyway WotC basically kicked out anyone who is not at least slightly well of, because they don't make them money and I'm afraid what that could men for D&D*.

bee_rider 4y ago
I agree that they screwed that community over. It just seems like it would be harder due to the fundamentals of the game to screw over the actual player community of D&D. There’s no competitive aspect, you can write whatever you want on your character sheet, and there’s a strong home brew tendency. If they try to gate the content behind a paywall, players can just… make it up themselves. They can go after folks publishing settings on drivethroughrpg which will be a bummer. And they can go after the sort of “play d&d on a podcast” groups (until they just switch to a different system). I think the players will be fine, though.

bee_rider 4y ago

I agree that they screwed that community over. It just seems like it would be harder due to the fundamentals of the game to screw over the actual player community of D&D. There’s no competitive aspect, you can write whatever you want on your character sheet, and there’s a strong home brew tendency. If they try to gate the content behind a paywall, players can just… make it up themselves. They can go after folks publishing settings on drivethroughrpg which will be a bummer. And they can go after the sort of “play d&d on a podcast” groups (until they just switch to a different system). I think the players will be fine, though.