A Discussion on how WoTC can make money and not make people mad

Quote from Keeshii >>

At this point, I just want to find what the real change is.  I keep seeing the hyperbole of what it could or would mean, but nobody is talking about what it is.  How much is blown out of proportion?  How much is false?  Regardless of my sentiment for Hasbro or WotC, all I keep seeing flooding the feeds is the what ifs.  

Ultimately, so long as I can play with friends and share with friends, I don't mind dishing out the dollars.  

•  Fact 1: D&D Beyond released DDB Drops
  
  • These include once a month game content (spells, feats, backgrounds etc)
  • Once a week ready made encounters for Maps
• Fact 2: Drops were only available while you have an active subscription and you'd lose access if you stopped subscribing
  • These were available at both subscription tiers
  • They came at no increase to subscription prices
• Fact 3: Drops were originally not shareable via the Master Tier subscription and were only accessible to those who were subscribed
  • You could bypass this by making a homebrew copy of an option and sharing that
  • The DM of a campaign could bypass this (assuming they had a subscription) by going to a players sheet and adding the option
  • There were no initial plans to release the options as digital purchases or in a physical book
• Fact 4: A portion of the community did not like drops for various reasons including but not limited to:
  • Inability to share content
    • WotC response: How they worked with sharing was being reviewed, but not enabling content sharing was a business decision based on improving the value of subscriptions
  • The idea of subscription only options:
    • WotC response: It was being considered to offer drops for purchase in some form of quarterly or yearly digital bundle
  • The idea of digital only options
    • WotC response: It was stated the content options represented game features that weren't polished enough or suited a book release
  • Fear this represented a move towards subscription based D&D
    • Wotc response: WotC stated multiple times they had no plans to move away from physical books
• Fact 5: D&D Beyond changed the content sharing to allow Master Tier subscriptions to share drops (and Maps soon)

If I have the chance, I'll try and source all the WotC statements, but can't do that right now