The Business: You Cargo Cultists Got Warned. You Didn't Listen. Now It's Time To Die.

Roll For Combat did a full stream before the GenCon announcement explaining Wizards' plan for Official D&D.

All of this is Officially Sanctioned (i.e. Brand Approved). All of it is Officially D&D (i.e. WOTC Approved). All of it is meant to be one giant buffet, mashed up like Super Robot Wars, all the time with all the lore and all the Known Places available All The Time.

I am not joking about the Autobot Death Knight with the +5 Buster Sword.

I am not joking about WOTC taking away table autonomy under the pretense of Brand Safety and Key Performance Indicator Improvements.

I am not joking about WOTC wielding the Network Effect to kill what remains of the commercial environment outside of their control--control, not entirely in-house; getting those others 100% dependent upon WOTC for their existence is better than being in-house--and forcing the commercial side of the hobby entirely within the Walled Garden that it owns and controls.

YOUR BUSINESS MODEL IS DEAD, RETARDS!

You can either pivot to a service-based model, quit, or go non-commercial.

WOTC took one choice from you. Soon it will take the other commercial option if you don't haul ass now, but you won't so I'm looking forward to WOTC forcing you to quit since you also don't have the balls to admit this isn't viable and just do this as a hobby.

Fuck ALL of you. You were warned. You didn't listen. The Collapse hit, and I delight in your suffering.

You were warned about Network Effects. You were warned about Revealed Preference. You were warned about the change in the commercial environment. You did not listen. You did not adapt. Now you die, and you die slowly and painfully as you bleed out over quarters or years before attrition forces you to shut down for good in a pathetic wimper. Fuck. You.