Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)

Post by fiddlerwoaroof » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 3:51 AM UTC

godelski wrote: post #109

vaylian wrote: post #48

A bit more context: * Wizards of the Coast (WoTC) has been tasked by Hasbro (which owns WoTC) to drastically increase profits over a few years. * WoTC has been aggressively increasing prices on Magic the Gathering (MTG) and drastically increased the diversity of products. This overwhelmed even people who follow and produce MTG news. Wallet fatique is rampant and people are disgruntled. * WoTC releases the 30th aniver…

> The real problem is the managers at WoTC that don't really care about the games. They only care about money. I expect more bad things in the future. The same seems to be true with Games Workshop and I've never understood this. The products from both companies have huge markups (painted cards and pieces of plastic) and I'd assume that they could actually have a far larger market and profit by concentrating on scale…

Post by ethbr0 » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 4:16 AM UTC

noxvilleza wrote: post #167

TimPC wrote: post #153

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I left the game as I got older. At the end of the day it just didn’t make sense to spend what magic cost if I could only play a few hours a week. It’s easy to spend over $3600/year on M:TG if you want to play competitively and that just doesn’t make sense to me if I’m getting roughly 100 hours of play in. I could do far better things with over $30/hour for hobbies.

(will try be a bit verbose here so that people who are not MTG fans will still be able to follow sorry if it's a slog to get through!) I was in a similar boat, though for a long time during university I shared a collection with a friend and we did a pretty good job at selling off stuff to keep the effective costs down. Since 2016, I stopped playing heavily rotational formats like Standard [for those unfamiliar, there…

Post by nycdotnet » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 4:29 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #129

pdonis wrote: post #121

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> I'd assume that they could actually have a far larger market and profit by concentrating on scale rather than treating their products as luxury items I'm not sure that's true. The actual bottleneck with these games is not money but time and interest: you have to have a group of people who all like the same game, and you have to be able to get the group together regularly to play it. There are plenty of people who a…

I’m still holding out hope I’ll be able to have a D&D renneisance after I retire (or maybe when the kids are old enough).

Post by wardedVibe » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 5:02 AM UTC

danjoredd wrote: post #37

wardedVibe wrote: post #18

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Wizards tried to change their license so that all third party material (books, virtual table tops, anything using the srd) was treated the way videogame mods are, and charge 30% of revenue (this was ogl 1.1). Players unsubscribed from the subscription based en mass, and their largest competitor (paizo, who owns pathfinder, and came about because of the last time they tried this) created an equivalent of the Linux fou…

TBH I like Paizo better. Pathfinder generally feels more in tune with the spirit of D&D than D&D itself does sometimes.

Post by hinkley » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 5:28 AM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #175

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The only thing worse than obstaining is half-assing it. Do you really want a bunch of detached people paying just enough attention to something you like that they feel like they can 'contribute' by changing it?

Meeting once a month would be within the normal range for a group playing for fun. On the low side, I think, but it's not "so little attention that it's worse than nothing".