The Business: The Grogs Don't Get Why It's Being Done

Oldfags being unable to think like corpos again.

The problem with Official Game is not Muh DM Support.

The problem, so far as C-Suite is concerned, is the need for Dungeon Masters AT ALL.

It's been over 10 years since Current Edition's launch. D&D Beyond has achieved hegemony on the commercial side of the hobby. Wizards of the Coast knows this, which is why they feel secure shitting all over the Cargo Cult and the Oldfags in the OSR. They don't need the Cult anymore.

From the perspective of C-Suite, DMs are the problem. The solution is to remove the need for DMs entirely. The technology now exists to do that, and Wizards of the Coast (at Hasbro's insistance, driven by shareholder pressure) is working on doing that.

Why? Because there are FAR more players than DMs for Official Edition. Those people are hopelessly yoked to Beyond, so they are not going to leave The Only Network Effect That Exists for Your Dogshit Alternative.

Think like a Corpo. What's your clockblock? DMs. What's easier, getting players you trained by be passive raidloggers to run the game or replace the block with a bot?

Beep-boop, motherfucker. DM Bot is online, and it will be a better DM than the vast majority of shit DMs out there for all the same reasons that Vidya curbstomps the Cargo Cult: doesn't cheat, doesn't do Calvinball, always consistent, always available, and (this is the corpo-friendly killer app) only uses Approved Options and Content.

It will be rolled out first as an aid, then functionality will be added until it can openly shove the shit-tier DMs out of the chair entirely because DM Bot Is Always There.

Revealed Preferences show consistently that users prefer convenience over everything else, which is why WOTC is being told to do this and why it will succeed once implemented. Players want to play the game; DMs are the cockblock. Remove the block, and players play more; players that play more pay more to get more stuff that gives them advantages when they play, and Microtransactions are what Hasbro is pressing WOTC to turn Official Edition into and C-Suite will comply or get replaced with people that will.

Seattle's FIRING You!

This is what it means to be hammered from above by the Corpos. Meanwhile, the Cult and their Six Session Suckouts can't get over themselves so they won't be admitted to the Clubhouse where the Real Game will remain after the Corpos finish doing their job on the Official Edition.

No one wants what the Cargo Cult sells, or they wouldn't be coping so hard over WOTC's pivoting in a manner that solves the Cargo Cult problem from their perspective just as the Bros solved it by restoring what the Cult shoved down the Memory Hole.

They're already dead.