Wizards of the Coast Employee breaks silence, says WotC "see consumers as obstacles between them and their money" and slams the company on the OGL

Cynthia Williams

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>Work as a findom for Amazon and Xbox cucking nerdy consumers

>Get hired as president of hyper nerd company

>Dom consumers too hard and they revolt

It's important to know your sub's limits as a dom or else no one will have fun

Also I just found out we have a minish cap marsey which I think is cool as frick

I wonder if there's any juicy drama that has yet to be leaked about WotC's very-woke policy.

It's one thing to want to be inclusive, but around ~4 or so years ago WotC made a HUGE shift to try to be more woke: despite the fact that 90% of their playerbase are white men, they went far, far out of their way to make black women the face of their product and now about half of the cards in Magic: The Gathering feature black women. I am terrifically curious if any workers at WotC know if this is some bullshit big-corpo push to look "woke" or if it's an earnest attempt to do better (even though printing black women on cardboard will absolutely not attract more black women to play your game, so I have no idea why they're doing it).

IMO, it's not something unique to WotC, it's the mindset of every major corporation these days.

I think it's because with the internet and global markets, the competition between firms isn't about fighting for customers - the customer base is essentially infinite, or at least much bigger than the firms need, so the goal isn't to serve your customers better so they come to you instead of your competitors. What's scarce is investment capital - more and more of the equity markets are consolidated into fewer and fewer players, and since the modern share market is much more speculative (i.e. investors buy not on the expected value of the share of the profits they get as dividends, but on the ability to flip their shares to someone else at a higher price later, who in turn is only buying because they anticipate flipping the shares, there's no regard to the fundamentals of the business), the goal is to compete with other firms by showing the capital investors that you can offer the best return on investment.

Under this mindset, you don't have customers to serve, you have assets to monetise, you've gotta show the moneymen that you're getting faster and faster growth with lots of new revenue streams - you don't actually need for these to pan out, because noone cares about whether you're actually making profits so much as whether you look like you're growing so you can be flipped to another speculator. And in that mindset, customers are an obstacle - they're preventing you from monetising your assets by standing between you and their money.

Huh this is a pretty good explanation for a phenomenon that's been happening a lot recently.

They make overpriced books and thats it thats all they need. They know people will go out and buy shit from barnes and noble to seem quirky

"WoTC see consumers as obstacles between them and their money"

Wow, what's that like?

Really???

Hearing this is the first time I’ve respected Wizards in a long time. They just wanted to get that bread and didn’t actually care about any of the bullshit they’re selling.

>You have the factories already with your other companies. Why not use them?

If it's anything like their MtG line, they don't actually own any heavy equipment or factories, and they just contract other people to make the injection-molded plastic for them. They don't own a single printshop for all the cardboard they spew, they contract all of it out to third parties. They had quality issues for YEARS that they only recently solved because the cardshit addicts kept buying the unusable shiny pringles until it got bad enough to affect the bottom line.

Based. They said the quiet part out loud.

i mean is that not what consumers are? lol

I mean I'll hand it to whoever leaked this, there are worse ways to hand in your two weeks. But also the people playing DnD won't play another game as long as they live, give it a month or two and they can change whatever licensing they want.

Can't believe WOTC is this incredibly based.

WotC sees the community not as people, but "obstruction to their money

What do you mean this giant corporation doesn't deeply care about my FEELINGS?

they targeted g*mers. seriously tho, what is the outrage about?

https://old.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/10a4go6/wizards_of_the_coast_employee_breaks_silence_says/j42l3pt/

lmao