The Business: Wizards Is Making The Move To Lock The Network Down

Pat got some serious inside info.

What Pat did not do is provide critical context.

Daggerheart selling out?

No, not that it didn't sell out. What is missing is this question's answer: "Out of a print run of how many?"

1000? That's NOTHING.

100 million? That's SOMETHING!

It's the former.

And then there's the REAL money: Exclusivity on Beyond.

As Pat said, Wizards of the Coast is locking the Network into the Walled Garden; Beyond has the critical mass of adoption already, and the Normie audience does not go out of their way for anything- if it is at all inconvient, they're out. This is why Daggerheart is not a threat; the masses are in the Walled Garden because Beyond is free, easy, and far more convenient than any other alternative. Remember: Diamond is dead, so Retail is now withering on the vine because guess who distributed most of the not-D&D stuff to Retail stores. Soon it'll be Amazon, Beyond, and DriveThru- and most people will only use the biggest option (Amazon and Beyond).

You can't win against the owner of such a supremely dominant Network Effect from the outside. You have to fight from within it.

Lots of people who still think otherwise are going to find this out the hard way. I warned you; you didn't listen, so now you're here. The collapse is going to go from ignorable to obvious over the next year or so, and crowdfunding will not be able to fill the gaps.