Dungeons and Dragons

11090 readers

45 users here now

A community for discussion of all things Dungeons and Dragons! This is the catch all community for anything relating to Dungeons and Dragons, though we encourage you to see out our Networked Communities listed below!

/c/DnD Network Communities

Other DnD and related Communities to follow*

DnD/RPG Podcasts

*Please Follow the rules of these individual communities, not all of them are strictly DnD related, but may be of interest to DnD Fans

Rules (Subject to Change)

Be a Decent Human Being
Credit OC content (self or otherwise)
Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article

Format: [Source Name] Article Title

Posts must have something to do with Dungeons and Dragons
No Piracy, this includes links to torrent sites, hosted content, streaming content, etc. Please see this post for details
Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
No NSFW content
Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

183

Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know [was: Hasbro Seeks to Sell IP “DND” and Has Had Preliminary Contact with Tencent] (pandaily.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

139 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but that doesn't mean we can't complain about the directions the fluid is flowing. In this case a specialized term for something that didn't previously have a popular term describing it has been rapidly diluted to mean "bad change I don't like." So that thing doesn't have a specialized term any more, which hampers discourse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The perils of language in the modern age, most people are not smart, and once a new word gets popular enough the majority of people using it will resemble the majority of society, ie, not smart people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The thing is, "enshitification" was never defined as "abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves". That's merely one of the stages that Doctorow outlined as part of the enshitification process.

Enshitification, as a whole, is the process of stripping value from a product or service from everyone except for shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's a specific process, though. It's the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. Dungeons and Dragons doesn't have that sort of structure, and that's not the sort of quality decrease that the people who are using "enshittification" are talking about.