My 2c.
"Let's see what happens", IMO, is a perfect recipe to being unable to do anything later. And there is little I can do except complain - but I think the time to complain is now.
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I don't want anyone to "complain".
Mock, laugh, and point fingers, sure.
But try and actually get WotC's attention and let them know there might be issues?
Fuck no.
Let them do this.
This will be the best thing that has happened to the hobby in over ten years.
BOB World Builder Mentioned something interesting in that he makes a few modules for 5e under his patreon and felt he would have to go with the 1.1 to be able to continue as before. I suspect that there are a lot of people in the same situation.
Yup. And WotC knows it.
The 5e ecosystem has gotten so big that WotC really has the whip hand now.
PF2 is too focused a game to attract enough fans for a 4e/PF1 repeat. And no other company is in a position to to what Baizuo did.
As far as WotC is concerned they have no potential competition to pull their card when they write this big fat check for the OneVTT.
I don't think that they care about legacy 1.0a OGL VTT stuff. They are assuming a lot of people will just move to the new hotness.
So they've already forgotten 4e.
No, but they’re hoping we have.
Might not be as bad a bet as we think (and I say this as someone who likes 4E): It's been over a decade since the last 4E product, and a lot of their fanbase now probably doesn't know any form of D&D but 5E and Pathfinder.
^This^
Most of the new fans have no idea of the 4e shenanigans. Why shouldn't WotC bank on that?
In defense of WotC's arrogance; when they treated the old fans like
total poo with the 4e PR roll-out, and made an edition of the game that no one was asking for - alienating the majority of the player base in the process: The overwhelming majority of them came flooding back with the release of 5e. Most D&D fans couldn't wait to once again bow down and lick the hand that feeds.
What was the real lesson learned by WotC in the 4e debacle?
That they can utterly shit on their own fanbase, and so long as they are able to switch gears to something more palatable if it goes sideways - all will be forgiven...