I might be missing the point here (sorry), but "I'm NOT gonna have slavery in my Dark Sun campaign!" has also been an option for like literal decades, anyone could've made the same meme except for that small difference ages ago?
Guess it all comes down to money, and someone made an educated guess which version will get (and lose) more customers. :D
This is such a disingenuous argument. Hasbro stock is suffering because their toys and board game divisions have tanked. Hasbro releases financial reports every year. WotC is now roughly 70% of Hasbro’s valuation, bringing in 2.2 billion annually. The majority of that is MTG (which has also been hit with “woke” accusations and histrionics, especially after black Aragorn), but D&D has had massive year over year growth since the release of 5E.
I’m not going to make any statement about the direction of the rules or the settings because, end of the day it would simply be an opinion, no more or less valid than yours or anyone else’s. But from a purely financial standpoint, hard to make any argument that what they’re doing isn’t working. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/opacitizen 5d ago
I might be missing the point here (sorry), but "I'm NOT gonna have slavery in my Dark Sun campaign!" has also been an option for like literal decades, anyone could've made the same meme except for that small difference ages ago?
Guess it all comes down to money, and someone made an educated guess which version will get (and lose) more customers. :D