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This paragraph is chillingly accurate, and took me a long time to admit. It isn't about money. It's about bringing down the system. That is becoming increasingly obvious. If it isn't subservient, then it needs to be destroyed.
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Yes. When they converge a company and it starts to: "get Woke, go broke"....
"Go Broke" is a victory condition for them.
What puzzles me -- and mind you, I don't think you're completely wrong -- is how many OTHER people who seem willing to join in on this even in the face of financial ruin.
It's literally signing up for the Poisoned Cocktail. Doesn't ANYONE look at the sales figures and say, 'Hey guys, why are our numbers down?'
They are all either true believers that think the cause is more important. Or they are afraid of them, and are just trying to hold on to their jobs as long as they can.
We think of companies as logical things, but I'll use Blizzard as an example since they've been in news a lot lately, and the SJWs are now dismantling their game piece by piece with no resistance, driving away many of the few remaining players.
Back when Blizzard founded it was a bunch of geeks at Blizzard North, and a bunch at Blizzard south. Two groups of geeks, one working on Diablo, the other on Warcraft, then Starcraft. These were small companies. Startups.
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Blizzard is a real good example of what can happen to WotC and D&D.
EverQuest was the first mover in the MMO sphere. Straight up King. But Blizzard saw that they were doing some things that could be really improved upon, and came out with the WoW MMO.
EQ couldn't keep up. The King is Dead, Long Live the King!
WoW has been the King since release in 2004. And it has taken a market leader dominating position that has been regarded as basically unassailable.
But enter Final Fantasy 14, or: FFIXIV (WTF kind of acronym is that? I know right? Damn Japanese...)
Canceled once, then relaunched again in 2013. Voicing the idea back in 2013 that FFIXIV would go on to have more players than WoW would have gotten you laughed out of the room.
WoW is the 800,000lb gorilla of the MMO hobby. Someone coming in and beating them straight up? Ridiculous!
Except that it happened:
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/final-fantasy-14-vs-world-of-warcraft-differences-player-count-subscribers/https://in.ign.com/final-fantasy-xiv-online-shadowbringers/160109/news/final-fantasy-14-vs-world-of-warcraft-most-played-mmorpgWhy? Just search: Why Players Are Leaving World of Warcraft
This is one of many replies:
https://www.wales247.co.uk/why-players-are-leaving-world-of-warcraft-after-17-yearsThis is one of the few that tangentially touches "Blizzards Politics".
And while many articles list many reasons how Blizzard is screwing the pooch, they never mention the underlying reason
why they are no longer able to creatively match FFIXIV.
Because Blizzard had become SJW converged. And all their issues are a result of the creative bankruptcy of SJWs who are unable to relate to what their normie audience actually likes anymore. So as a company they have become unable to properly serve their largest customer base.
It doesn't help that the developers obviously no longer play the game, let alone the issues they are facing in the form of lawsuits due to the toxic SJW gamma-male "feminist's" that are in positions of power in Blizzard.
As for WotC...
It is increasingly obvious now that they are both Converged and creatively bankrupt.
WotC staff should be lining up to kiss Mike Mearls bare ass each time he enters the office, and his bare feet should touch nothing but rose petals as he walks around...
For all its issues, 5e hit the right level of complexity to take advantage of the big pop-culture nostalgia wave that D&D is currently riding.
But now that he is no longer in charge of D&D we are starting to see all the indications that WotC is starting to embrace their inner SJW.
They won't make the same mistakes they made with 4e. But they will make all new ones...