Well, to be fair to your group, a LOT has happened in the world at large in the last 20 months. You only have so much bandwidth for scandals, crises, and shocks.
Well, to be fair to your group, a LOT has happened in the world at large in the last 20 months. You only have so much bandwidth for scandals, crises, and shocks.
Much of the discussion seems to have been confined to the DDB forums, and maybe a few threads on Reddit. It seems that when word started to spread to the general public and other websites such as CBR, GameRant, Comickbook.com, Youtube, and some of the podcasters began reporting on it and providing their input on the issue, that those voicing their displeasure on the DDB forums started getting results.
Personally, I made it a point to spread the word to friends who I knew used DDB for their gaming, via discord channels and other social media. I'm sure I'm not the only one who did that. Many who I told of this development also had no clue, since the DDB forums and info channels are seldom on their radar. Heck, if not for the fact I needed to update a character I too wouldn't have realized what was happening until too late. I guess serendipity saved the day.
WOTC reacted very quickly to this one. They didn't give the Outrage Machine much time to whirl into motion
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Twenty months ago the danger to the revenue of the celebrity players motivated the celebrities to organize and inform the fans. With this change the only celebrities who talked about it are the ones who have spent the last 20 months bashing WotC. Those who have returned to creating D&D content because that is what their viewers wanted had zero reason to care about 2014 getting deleted on DDB. This didn't even effect people playing on Roll20 let alone the large player base that is still sitting around a physical table.
Something people have to understand, you bought a digital license to rent their content and use their servers. You do not own ANYTHING you have on D&D Beyond. You paid for use of a very good search engine and character builder, well beyond the book. And you aren't storing it on your own hard drive, but WotC's server, and they have to pay a cost for that.
Think of the phrase: Not Your Key Not Your Crypto.
Would you store your crypto on Kucoin and live in the US and then find out you can't get it out and its locked now? Well welcome to buying content from DnD Beyond. Whatever the WotC leadership wants to do to your content they can do. You don't own it. I suggest everyone here read the terms and conditions below link and the relevant blockquote on ownership. Now I want you to look at how WotC has behaved in the last two years. Are you seeing changes in Wotc's behavior? If WotC was a person would you allow them to take care of your dog while you were on vacation or allow them to house sit for a month?
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I suggest if you have an issue with WotC, attend gaming conventions. Play in person, meet people and play face to face. Learn about other games and older editions of D&D and get better experiences gaming than what WotC has the capability to offer. This weekend alone, there two conventions I'm aware of Grand Con in Grand Rapids MI and Dragon Con in Atlanta GA. At Grand Con, Jeff Grubb the man who created Spelljammer 2E (note he had nothing to do with 5E Spelljammer he wasn't consulted) and Al Qadim and helped to write Forgotten Realms. He's attending and he's running Spelljammer and Al Qadim 2E adventures. Origins, Garycon, North Texas RPG Con, Gencon and Origins are all great experiences you try at least once in your life. If you want an easy transition, buy Shadowdark (one of the best put together RPG books you will ever own - extremely high quality) and run a game for your group. There are OSE, Castles and Crusades, DCC, BECMI etc that will give your group a better experience, its easier to play for everyone DM and player. There's also Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu, and Traveller as well if you want well put together games outside of D&D
With how the US economy is cratering and people are being laid off, WotC execs have every incentive to be pro-consumer. However there is no change in WotC C-Suite executive behavior, they have Hasbro dollars and MTG dollars funding their business unit. IMHO, WotC isn't going to change, so if you plan on staying with DnD Beyond, then your content will be changed and/or overwritten/delete. You explicitly gave WotC your consent when you signed up, they can do to your content whatever they want, so be good with it and have fun playing WotC's game, it is their game not yours.
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Well, to be fair to your group, a LOT has happened in the world at large in the last 20 months. You only have so much bandwidth for scandals, crises, and shocks.
Much of the discussion seems to have been confined to the DDB forums, and maybe a few threads on Reddit. It seems that when word started to spread to the general public and other websites such as CBR, GameRant, Comickbook.com, Youtube, and some of the podcasters began reporting on it and providing their input on the issue, that those voicing their displeasure on the DDB forums started getting results.
Personally, I made it a point to spread the word to friends who I knew used DDB for their gaming, via discord channels and other social media. I'm sure I'm not the only one who did that. Many who I told of this development also had no clue, since the DDB forums and info channels are seldom on their radar. Heck, if not for the fact I needed to update a character I too wouldn't have realized what was happening until too late. I guess serendipity saved the day.
WOTC reacted very quickly to this one. They didn't give the Outrage Machine much time to whirl into motion
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Twenty months ago the danger to the revenue of the celebrity players motivated the celebrities to organize and inform the fans. With this change the only celebrities who talked about it are the ones who have spent the last 20 months bashing WotC. Those who have returned to creating D&D content because that is what their viewers wanted had zero reason to care about 2014 getting deleted on DDB. This didn't even effect people playing on Roll20 let alone the large player base that is still sitting around a physical table.
Something people have to understand, you bought a digital license to rent their content and use their servers. You do not own ANYTHING you have on D&D Beyond. You paid for use of a very good search engine and character builder, well beyond the book. And you aren't storing it on your own hard drive, but WotC's server, and they have to pay a cost for that.
Think of the phrase: Not Your Key Not Your Crypto.
Would you store your crypto on Kucoin and live in the US and then find out you can't get it out and its locked now? Well welcome to buying content from DnD Beyond. Whatever the WotC leadership wants to do to your content they can do. You don't own it. I suggest everyone here read the terms and conditions below link and the relevant blockquote on ownership. Now I want you to look at how WotC has behaved in the last two years. Are you seeing changes in Wotc's behavior? If WotC was a person would you allow them to take care of your dog while you were on vacation or allow them to house sit for a month?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/terms-conditions
I suggest if you have an issue with WotC, attend gaming conventions. Play in person, meet people and play face to face. Learn about other games and older editions of D&D and get better experiences gaming than what WotC has the capability to offer. This weekend alone, there two conventions I'm aware of Grand Con in Grand Rapids MI and Dragon Con in Atlanta GA. At Grand Con, Jeff Grubb the man who created Spelljammer 2E (note he had nothing to do with 5E Spelljammer he wasn't consulted) and Al Qadim and helped to write Forgotten Realms. He's attending and he's running Spelljammer and Al Qadim 2E adventures. Origins, Garycon, North Texas RPG Con, Gencon and Origins are all great experiences you try at least once in your life. If you want an easy transition, buy Shadowdark (one of the best put together RPG books you will ever own - extremely high quality) and run a game for your group. There are OSE, Castles and Crusades, DCC, BECMI etc that will give your group a better experience, its easier to play for everyone DM and player. There's also Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu, and Traveller as well if you want well put together games outside of D&D
With how the US economy is cratering and people are being laid off, WotC execs have every incentive to be pro-consumer. However there is no change in WotC C-Suite executive behavior, they have Hasbro dollars and MTG dollars funding their business unit. IMHO, WotC isn't going to change, so if you plan on staying with DnD Beyond, then your content will be changed and/or overwritten/delete. You explicitly gave WotC your consent when you signed up, they can do to your content whatever they want, so be good with it and have fun playing WotC's game, it is their game not yours.