I've recently read your post and gotta say. You not only "rolled a 1" when reading the community you also crit failed that Bluff Check (Deception for you 5e only players). Every single thing in this "Response" reeks of gaslighting us and blaming US for WOTC's choices. Maybe if you all weren't so greedy, maybe if you didn't blatantly lie to us when you said "We didn't know we'd be stealing your content" when the OGL clearly stated it would have take the rights to the content we make (fun fact "Owning" is different that having the rights in a legal sense, WOTC and DnDBeyond lied when they said we'd "Own" our work. We make it and they take the rights to make money off it) we'd wouldn't be so upset. Maybe if WOTC and Hasbro actually listened we wouldn't be having this issue.
I'm going to say this, before the OGL I was considering renewing my subscription again. Now that it's not only very clear WOTC and Hasbro haven't listened and will go forward with this, I will not be renewing it, but I'm not buying anything further on this site. There's only one thing we can do now as consumers.
Cancel our Subscriptions.
If the leaks from DnDShorts is correct this is the only way to make WOTC and Hasbro listen to us. It sucks that we have to hurt the people who work on this site. But if Hasbro and WOTC only care about the subscriptions on this site...then we need to make it known that we're not happy. This all started when racist people placed their own views on minorities on fictional races and WOTC and Hasbro folded and butchered the lore, now they expect us to be okay with them taking what we spend blood, sweat and tears on for their profit.
To the leaker if you're reading this; keep up the good work. You're taking a great risk exposing this exploitation, and those of us sick of WOTC and Hasbro's BS are rooting for you.
Dear DnDBeyond,
I've recently read your post and gotta say. You not only "rolled a 1" when reading the community you also crit failed that Bluff Check (Deception for you 5e only players). Every single thing in this "Response" reeks of gaslighting us and blaming US for WOTC's choices. Maybe if you all weren't so greedy, maybe if you didn't blatantly lie to us when you said "We didn't know we'd be stealing your content" when the OGL clearly stated it would have take the rights to the content we make (fun fact "Owning" is different that having the rights in a legal sense, WOTC and DnDBeyond lied when they said we'd "Own" our work. We make it and they take the rights to make money off it) we'd wouldn't be so upset. Maybe if WOTC and Hasbro actually listened we wouldn't be having this issue.
I'm going to say this, before the OGL I was considering renewing my subscription again. Now that it's not only very clear WOTC and Hasbro haven't listened and will go forward with this, I will not be renewing it, but I'm not buying anything further on this site. There's only one thing we can do now as consumers.
Cancel our Subscriptions.
If the leaks from DnDShorts is correct this is the only way to make WOTC and Hasbro listen to us. It sucks that we have to hurt the people who work on this site. But if Hasbro and WOTC only care about the subscriptions on this site...then we need to make it known that we're not happy. This all started when racist people placed their own views on minorities on fictional races and WOTC and Hasbro folded and butchered the lore, now they expect us to be okay with them taking what we spend blood, sweat and tears on for their profit.
To the leaker if you're reading this; keep up the good work. You're taking a great risk exposing this exploitation, and those of us sick of WOTC and Hasbro's BS are rooting for you.
EDIT: I should post the blog here for those that haven't read this pile of horse dung.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-game-license-ogl
Personally, they've lost me as a customer. I only regret having bought so many of my books on DND Beyond.