The thing about "bad changes" is simply that a string of complaints go on for a while, and then the "bad change" just becomes "the norm" and things go back to normal.
DnD is not say, your car licence, you don't need to keep that updated for every person on the planet in order to actually not get a fine driving on the road. You can have ONE player at a table have all the material needed in purchased book form on a shelf to pass around and an infinite amount of players playing every week with that ONE set of books, AT the play table; there is no way that WoTC can force everyone at the table to have their own books no matter what they try, so I guess they are trying whatever tricks they think they can pull off in order to "make more money".
Even if WoTC literally vanished into Another Plane of Existence overnight, every player out there would just continue playing, with what they have, and could continue to do so indefinitively because the DnD rules are just "preferred guidelines" for a D20 system.
What we are seeing is not a company that "mainly exists to serve the players", we are simply seeing "a company acting to make money", and sure, i can understand all the reasoning behind the changes, but we have lots of other examples where companies that kept playing the "slow creep" game just end up dead the moment where they finally cross a final line in the sand and their customers cut their losses and go elsewhere.
Time will tell.
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Has the ability to purchase individual races, subclasses, and spells been removed?
Yeah, as of the 1st the marketplace changed and we can no longer buy individual options. It really sucks and no one is happy with it
The thing about "bad changes" is simply that a string of complaints go on for a while, and then the "bad change" just becomes "the norm" and things go back to normal.
DnD is not say, your car licence, you don't need to keep that updated for every person on the planet in order to actually not get a fine driving on the road. You can have ONE player at a table have all the material needed in purchased book form on a shelf to pass around and an infinite amount of players playing every week with that ONE set of books, AT the play table; there is no way that WoTC can force everyone at the table to have their own books no matter what they try, so I guess they are trying whatever tricks they think they can pull off in order to "make more money".
Even if WoTC literally vanished into Another Plane of Existence overnight, every player out there would just continue playing, with what they have, and could continue to do so indefinitively because the DnD rules are just "preferred guidelines" for a D20 system.
What we are seeing is not a company that "mainly exists to serve the players", we are simply seeing "a company acting to make money", and sure, i can understand all the reasoning behind the changes, but we have lots of other examples where companies that kept playing the "slow creep" game just end up dead the moment where they finally cross a final line in the sand and their customers cut their losses and go elsewhere.
Time will tell.