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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9320760" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It's obviously not accurate to claim that. Loads of people were in the process of moving to other systems or the like didn't, and 3PP stuff which would have moved away if WotC hadn't taken drastic action, didn't. And WotC stopped being a laughingstock among all of nerd-dom (and I do mean all of nerd-dom, it was far beyond TT RPGs - it was being discussed in places where basically no-one or like 3% of people play TTRPGs), and people started saying stuff like "Yeah, they screwed up, but at least they set things right and are going to do more good stuff, they're not all bad!". If anything unapologised/unfixed MtG stuff has more of a "negative aura" around WotC than the OGL 2.0 since the CCBY SRD.</p><p></p><p>This apparent hand-wringing idea that WotC are some smol bean lonely outcast orphan who everyone is meanly hating on is just rather funny. It should be funny to you too, but I guess you're too invested in this idea of WotC as "victims" or something? Or am I misunderstanding your position entirely, thanks to the vagaries of the English language and the classic "two nations divided by a common language"? Am I 100% out of whack? Like just wildly misunderstanding? It does happen!</p><p></p><p>WotC are a big company who screwed up, and for the most part, were forgiven. Obviously people who started processing like making new games are continuing them, and obviously a certain amount of damage is not short-term recoverable simply because people were so alarmed by WotC's behaviour. It's not even a forgiveness thing. If someone threatens your livelihood in an outburst, and you go work with someone else, you may well "forgive" them, but you don't go back and work with them - you might in distant future but once bitten twice shy and that isn't a "forgiveness" or "mean-ness" thing, that's sanity.</p><p></p><p>I will say, if WotC never did the SRDs for the other D&Ds, that will be forgotten by the greater nerd-o-sphere UNTIL the moment WotC screws up big again, at which point it will come up as "Oh remember when they said they were going to do that thing, and then didn't?" and any future promises of fixes will be untrusted. But it does mean it's safe to be on the backburner for a while.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Good lord, really? This is over-dramatic fainting couch material and nonsensical. Also earth-movers are really not very fast. I'm not sure they do "speeding". But who am I to argue with poetry?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9320760, member: 18"] It's obviously not accurate to claim that. Loads of people were in the process of moving to other systems or the like didn't, and 3PP stuff which would have moved away if WotC hadn't taken drastic action, didn't. And WotC stopped being a laughingstock among all of nerd-dom (and I do mean all of nerd-dom, it was far beyond TT RPGs - it was being discussed in places where basically no-one or like 3% of people play TTRPGs), and people started saying stuff like "Yeah, they screwed up, but at least they set things right and are going to do more good stuff, they're not all bad!". If anything unapologised/unfixed MtG stuff has more of a "negative aura" around WotC than the OGL 2.0 since the CCBY SRD. This apparent hand-wringing idea that WotC are some smol bean lonely outcast orphan who everyone is meanly hating on is just rather funny. It should be funny to you too, but I guess you're too invested in this idea of WotC as "victims" or something? Or am I misunderstanding your position entirely, thanks to the vagaries of the English language and the classic "two nations divided by a common language"? Am I 100% out of whack? Like just wildly misunderstanding? It does happen! WotC are a big company who screwed up, and for the most part, were forgiven. Obviously people who started processing like making new games are continuing them, and obviously a certain amount of damage is not short-term recoverable simply because people were so alarmed by WotC's behaviour. It's not even a forgiveness thing. If someone threatens your livelihood in an outburst, and you go work with someone else, you may well "forgive" them, but you don't go back and work with them - you might in distant future but once bitten twice shy and that isn't a "forgiveness" or "mean-ness" thing, that's sanity. I will say, if WotC never did the SRDs for the other D&Ds, that will be forgotten by the greater nerd-o-sphere UNTIL the moment WotC screws up big again, at which point it will come up as "Oh remember when they said they were going to do that thing, and then didn't?" and any future promises of fixes will be untrusted. But it does mean it's safe to be on the backburner for a while. Good lord, really? This is over-dramatic fainting couch material and nonsensical. Also earth-movers are really not very fast. I'm not sure they do "speeding". But who am I to argue with poetry? [/QUOTE]
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