Cancelled. Thanks for wrecking my game Cindy and her leadership team. I've been loyal since the 80s. I was a buying machine for you. You screwed it up so bad I'll never open another D&D book or read an article about it. Done. Plenty of better games out there to play.
Don't blame Cynthia*. She is doing what she was hired to do by Chris and the rest of the Hasbro Sr Leadership team. THAT is where the blame rests.
Lol - it completely does rest with her, or on her or within her or whatever preposition you want to use.
They hired her specifically for who she is, not because she is a good person. She bears complete responsibility for the person she is and the methods she uses, the culture she builds or destroys, and if these methods run the company into the ground because she only has one way to interact with customers - dishonesty, then when found out, redirect and more dishonesty, then when pressured redirect and triple down on dishonesty - in an endless chain until you finally get about 75% of what you want. This is was the strategy of Tobacco Companies for 50 years - and she is so deeply enmeshed with that culture she doesn't even know how to interact with a normal community.
Hasboro's Upper echelon is to blame - yes - but that does not leave the people who actually carry out the strategy blameless - especially if they conveniently make seven figures for doing so decade after decade after decade.
"The deer that the Park Rangers brought into the park has eaten the rose bushes! The deer is to blame!!!"
only kind of when the Park Rangers bought a deer trained to eat roses and released it into the park. The Rangers are the ones REALLY at the heart of the problem - the deer and the damage it has done are merely symptoms.
I think the reason people are unsubscribing is to bring this to WoTC immediate attention so that they take action/ listen to the people of the community more.
However I understand that unsubscribing wouldn’t be necessary considering they have so much backlash already.
This just causes DDB players to lose out on more content.
either you are being intentionally obtuse or intentionally sexist in "blame the fembot for doing EXACTLY what she was hired to do as laid out by the men directing her actions without placing the actual responsibility on its originators"
What? Are you saying she is not to blame for her own decisions she made every step of the way in building her entire professional history?
if you want to focus the blame on Cynthia for the "Blueprint 2.0" designed and put into place before she was hired by Chris and the other members of the C-suite, rather than putting the blame on the actual people who instigated the plan, i definitely know which option best describes you.
Yes, you remove from the park the deer that has been trained to eat roses, but you are not fixing the source of the problem until you remove the Park Rangers who specifically brought that rose-eating deer into the park in the first place and were happy when it did what they wanted it to do - eat the roses.
Spelljammer: If there was a better Spelljammer equivalent out there, people would simply be using that instead of having bought Spelljammer. Is there, even today, any better 3rd party equivalent? If so, why hasn't anyone mentioned it in any of the many, well founded complaints regarding Spelljammer
This is the fingers ear in your ears arguement isn't it? You can't easily find large spelljammer complaints without a mention of wildjammer multiple times . People constantly mention better homebrew then the badly made product WoTC called spelljammer wildjammer comes up the most often. I used my own homebrew personally but i know er is popular. Yes, if you completely don't listen to people you wont hear what they say.
They released a "settiing" with a single location getting mild elaboration, no factions, no major characters, and no history. Of course people reference the better homemade one all the time.
Frankly, I'm not going to get into your clueless game. It's clear what is third party content, and what is homebrew. We don't create straw men, please.
The important point here is that WoTC itself cannot generate all the content that third parties generate. In fact, I'm sure their strategy is still to have third parties fill D&D content, but to do so in OGL 1.2. If not, what's the point of the new OGL? We'll see if that happens or not. But if it doesn't happen, if third parties don't make content for One D&D, my prediction is that D&D is going to lose the interest of its players little by little. I could be wrong, of course. But that's the fun of predictions.
Is 3rd party content official content? No. So it is homebrew, by definition. Not all homebrew counts as 3rd party content, but all 3rd party content is homebrew.
If we are not able to distinguish third-party content from homebrew, there is no need to continue with this discussion. You will never understand where the value of having third-party content for your system is if it is the same as homebrew for you.
If we are not able to distinguish third-party content from homebrew, there is no need to continue with this discussion. You will never understand where the value of having third-party content for your system is if it is the same as homebrew for you.
So I leave it here.
Rather than continuing with the personal attacks, perhaps you could explain the difference?
Nobody has attacked you. But if you don't understand the most basic concepts regarding the current discussion, it's a waste of time to continue arguing.
Anyway, homebrew does not have an editor behind it. It is not an editorial, professional job, but an amateur job.
It is as if you make homemade beer, hence the name.
That's the difference: Third-party content is editorial work. Homebrew is amateur work.
If you are wondering if Hasbro & Wizards of the Coasts are good companies. It was just announced that Hasbro will lay-off 1000 people to cut costs by 15%. The reason they are doing this is that they are going to be announcing the Q4 numbers and they are probably looking as bad if not worse than the Q3 numbers.
This goes to show you that despite mismanaging the company, in response, rather than eating the loss which is not really a loss as they will still report a profitable quarter, just not as profitable as expected, they would rather fire 1,000 people.
This company does not deserve your money because they expect to win, no matter what. If they manage well or not, they will take their profits and the only question is how many people's jobs will be sacrificed in order to make that happen.
If you are wondering if Hasbro & Wizards of the Coasts are good companies. It was just announced that Hasbro will lay-off 1000 people to cut costs by 15%. The reason they are doing this is that they are going to be announcing the Q4 numbers and they are probably looking as bad if not worse than the Q3 numbers.
This goes to show you that despite mismanaging the company, in response, rather than eating the loss which is not really a loss as they will still report a profitable quarter, just not as profitable as expected, they would rather fire 1,000 people.
This company does not deserve your money because they expect to win, no matter what. If they manage well or not, they will take their profits and the only question is how many people's jobs will be sacrificed in order to make that happen.
Really if we only buy from companies that look after the good of their employees before their bottom line, we would not buy anything. But not only regarding role-playing games, if not nothing at all. Our little orchard in the garden, our four goats, and to survive however we can.
I'm not going to get into ideology, but that's the system we live in. For better and for worse.
If you are wondering if Hasbro & Wizards of the Coasts are good companies. It was just announced that Hasbro will lay-off 1000 people to cut costs by 15%. The reason they are doing this is that they are going to be announcing the Q4 numbers and they are probably looking as bad if not worse than the Q3 numbers.
This goes to show you that despite mismanaging the company, in response, rather than eating the loss which is not really a loss as they will still report a profitable quarter, just not as profitable as expected, they would rather fire 1,000 people.
This company does not deserve your money because they expect to win, no matter what. If they manage well or not, they will take their profits and the only question is how many people's jobs will be sacrificed in order to make that happen.
Again, their share prices have been falling for several years. They are not a charity, much as you may think they should be.
I don't think they should be a charity, but I do think you need to ride the waves of success with the people that work for you, not use them as blunt objects. Where I live, we work under a philosophy called "Employee's First", which stems from the ideology that it is your employees that will make you successful and you are reliant on their talents for long-term sustainability. When the going is good, you make your money, when tough times come, you ride it out together.
Where I work I'm surrounded by people that have been with the company for 20, 30, 40+ years. I wake up every morning knowing that I will have a job tomorrow and I also know that if my company is successful, I get bonuses and raises and when its not, I don't, so I work hard everyday to make sure that its successful and make their success, my personal problem.
Its possible, companies do it all the time... you don't have to be corporate pricks to be successful.
Yes, you remove from the park the deer that has been trained to eat roses, but you are not fixing the source of the problem until you remove the Park Rangers who specifically brought that rose-eating deer into the park in the first place and were happy when it did what they wanted it to do - eat the roses.
It's time for the rangers to "cull the herd", using your analogy.
When deer are so overpopulated that they start eating Granny's rose garden - yes - she puts in a complaint to the Department of Fish & Wildlife and the rangers come out with rifles and shoot, mount and eat that deer.
I'm not sure what kind of fantasy world you live in where Park Rangers don't kill deer when deer make the wrong choices.
I feel why people did this in the beginning, but I agree with your sentiment at the current time. I have sooo much content on my account.
That said; I believe that, for many, trust is lost and they are simply moving on. For some this is done sadly, for others their ire has spurned the action.
I feel why people did this in the beginning, but I agree with your sentiment at the current time. I have sooo much content on my account.
That said; I believe that, for many, trust is lost and they are simply moving on. For some this is done sadly, for others their ire has spurned the action.
Its kind of the problem with the eco-system business model, at least in terms of consumer treatment. The tolerance level for BS goes way up if you are invested in an eco-system which is exactly the trap Wizards of the Coast is asking us to walk into. Hey VTT, digital content, DLC's etc.. etc... you get into that for a few hundred, maybe a thousand dollars, suddenly quitting doesn't feel like an option and Wizard of the Coast can do whatever the hell they want and get away with it.
If you don't believe it, see Magic: The Gathering. People are in for so much money that WotC was getting away with murder and people still refused to take action because they are in so deep.
Now... right now.. is the time to get out, before they can get this model off the ground. Punish them for even trying.
Too much power and wealth and too little competition seals the deal for D&D. Soon its going to be either you play D&D and spend cash on a monthly basis or you don't get any access to it at all. That is the offer on the table right now.. all or nothing. The future of D&D is bleak under this management.. great for investors if it works, bad for consumers if it works or it doesn't... there is no positive outcome anymore.. its either this works and D&D is screwed or it doesn't work and D&D is screwed
" having a good service "
and at this point, " having a good service " is pretty much a wild crapshoot given WOTCs history with internal digital products.
Don't blame Cynthia*. She is doing what she was hired to do by Chris and the rest of the Hasbro Sr Leadership team. THAT is where the blame rests.
*Well, the blame doesnt rest ON Cynthia.
I'm paying 54$ a year to host character sheets and use a beta encounter that is no longer updated.
Then WOTC decided to fix my undermonetization. That is my reason.
Lol - it completely does rest with her, or on her or within her or whatever preposition you want to use.
They hired her specifically for who she is, not because she is a good person. She bears complete responsibility for the person she is and the methods she uses, the culture she builds or destroys, and if these methods run the company into the ground because she only has one way to interact with customers - dishonesty, then when found out, redirect and more dishonesty, then when pressured redirect and triple down on dishonesty - in an endless chain until you finally get about 75% of what you want. This is was the strategy of Tobacco Companies for 50 years - and she is so deeply enmeshed with that culture she doesn't even know how to interact with a normal community.
Hasboro's Upper echelon is to blame - yes - but that does not leave the people who actually carry out the strategy blameless - especially if they conveniently make seven figures for doing so decade after decade after decade.
"The deer that the Park Rangers brought into the park has eaten the rose bushes! The deer is to blame!!!"
only kind of when the Park Rangers bought a deer trained to eat roses and released it into the park. The Rangers are the ones REALLY at the heart of the problem - the deer and the damage it has done are merely symptoms.
I think the reason people are unsubscribing is to bring this to WoTC immediate attention so that they take action/ listen to the people of the community more.
However I understand that unsubscribing wouldn’t be necessary considering they have so much backlash already.
This just causes DDB players to lose out on more content.
What? Are you saying she is not to blame for her own decisions she made every step of the way in building her entire professional history?
Obtuse is as obtuse does.
Do I even wanna know?
if you want to focus the blame on Cynthia for the "Blueprint 2.0" designed and put into place before she was hired by Chris and the other members of the C-suite, rather than putting the blame on the actual people who instigated the plan, i definitely know which option best describes you.
Yes, you remove from the park the deer that has been trained to eat roses, but you are not fixing the source of the problem until you remove the Park Rangers who specifically brought that rose-eating deer into the park in the first place and were happy when it did what they wanted it to do - eat the roses.
This is the fingers ear in your ears arguement isn't it? You can't easily find large spelljammer complaints without a mention of wildjammer multiple times . People constantly mention better homebrew then the badly made product WoTC called spelljammer wildjammer comes up the most often. I used my own homebrew personally but i know er is popular. Yes, if you completely don't listen to people you wont hear what they say.
They released a "settiing" with a single location getting mild elaboration, no factions, no major characters, and no history. Of course people reference the better homemade one all the time.
If we are not able to distinguish third-party content from homebrew, there is no need to continue with this discussion. You will never understand where the value of having third-party content for your system is if it is the same as homebrew for you.
So I leave it here.
Nobody has attacked you. But if you don't understand the most basic concepts regarding the current discussion, it's a waste of time to continue arguing.
Anyway, homebrew does not have an editor behind it. It is not an editorial, professional job, but an amateur job.
It is as if you make homemade beer, hence the name.
That's the difference: Third-party content is editorial work. Homebrew is amateur work.
Okay, Kotah, you don't get it.
That's why I say I leave it here. Not worth it. It's a waste of time.
If you are wondering if Hasbro & Wizards of the Coasts are good companies. It was just announced that Hasbro will lay-off 1000 people to cut costs by 15%. The reason they are doing this is that they are going to be announcing the Q4 numbers and they are probably looking as bad if not worse than the Q3 numbers.
This goes to show you that despite mismanaging the company, in response, rather than eating the loss which is not really a loss as they will still report a profitable quarter, just not as profitable as expected, they would rather fire 1,000 people.
This company does not deserve your money because they expect to win, no matter what. If they manage well or not, they will take their profits and the only question is how many people's jobs will be sacrificed in order to make that happen.
Really if we only buy from companies that look after the good of their employees before their bottom line, we would not buy anything. But not only regarding role-playing games, if not nothing at all. Our little orchard in the garden, our four goats, and to survive however we can.
I'm not going to get into ideology, but that's the system we live in. For better and for worse.
I don't think they should be a charity, but I do think you need to ride the waves of success with the people that work for you, not use them as blunt objects. Where I live, we work under a philosophy called "Employee's First", which stems from the ideology that it is your employees that will make you successful and you are reliant on their talents for long-term sustainability. When the going is good, you make your money, when tough times come, you ride it out together.
Where I work I'm surrounded by people that have been with the company for 20, 30, 40+ years. I wake up every morning knowing that I will have a job tomorrow and I also know that if my company is successful, I get bonuses and raises and when its not, I don't, so I work hard everyday to make sure that its successful and make their success, my personal problem.
Its possible, companies do it all the time... you don't have to be corporate pricks to be successful.
Well, Hasboro shareholders are now upset that the Upper management make as much as companies like apple that are much larger and also perform better.
It's a fair point - If they are paying AAA salaries and only getting A/B results, large shareholders have the right to question what is going on.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220217005358/en/Alta-Fox-Capital-Management-Nominates-Five-Highly-Qualified-and-Independent-Candidates-for-Election-to-Hasbro’s-Board-of-Directors
It's time for the rangers to "cull the herd", using your analogy.
When deer are so overpopulated that they start eating Granny's rose garden - yes - she puts in a complaint to the Department of Fish & Wildlife and the rangers come out with rifles and shoot, mount and eat that deer.
I'm not sure what kind of fantasy world you live in where Park Rangers don't kill deer when deer make the wrong choices.
I feel why people did this in the beginning, but I agree with your sentiment at the current time. I have sooo much content on my account.
That said; I believe that, for many, trust is lost and they are simply moving on. For some this is done sadly, for others their ire has spurned the action.
Its kind of the problem with the eco-system business model, at least in terms of consumer treatment. The tolerance level for BS goes way up if you are invested in an eco-system which is exactly the trap Wizards of the Coast is asking us to walk into. Hey VTT, digital content, DLC's etc.. etc... you get into that for a few hundred, maybe a thousand dollars, suddenly quitting doesn't feel like an option and Wizard of the Coast can do whatever the hell they want and get away with it.
If you don't believe it, see Magic: The Gathering. People are in for so much money that WotC was getting away with murder and people still refused to take action because they are in so deep.
Now... right now.. is the time to get out, before they can get this model off the ground. Punish them for even trying.
Too much power and wealth and too little competition seals the deal for D&D. Soon its going to be either you play D&D and spend cash on a monthly basis or you don't get any access to it at all. That is the offer on the table right now.. all or nothing. The future of D&D is bleak under this management.. great for investors if it works, bad for consumers if it works or it doesn't... there is no positive outcome anymore.. its either this works and D&D is screwed or it doesn't work and D&D is screwed