This is why I don't like commenting on Wizards drama. D&D Beyond will allow you to keep what you paid for, and the 2014 content will stay in the system. It is a good move, but...
Every major decision this team makes seems to have to be course-corrected a few weeks after community outrage. If I were a shareholder, this would be my first question to this team: "What is going on over there? Are you that out of touch with your customers?"
It's disheartening to see D&D YouTube claiming victory when the community never truly wins; they just manage to push back another misguided decision. Most YouTube comments on these videos say, "Never going back."
D&D Beyond should be a home to any player who owns any edition to come and call the system home. If you play AD&D or 0e, a 4.0 or 3.5, 4E, 5.0 or 5.5, or AD&D 2nd, a character sheet, books, and rules should await you. You should be able to buy any module and have assets, maps, and conversions for any D&D game right there, 0e to 5.5E. Other VTTs have character sheets for these games. The PDFs exist. They own these games. Why isn't this happening?
This is the dream platform fueled by nostalgia and decades of back content.
There is a massive difference between a company that makes rules and a social technology platform, and the company still needs to figure that out. There is a point where the rules don't matter, but the platform is everything. Every year, this team keeps acting like a "rules company," and it is another year they hand over to their competitors.
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