No,.because you can't copyright card mechanics. But Lorcana is a MtG variant, that may well threaten WotC market share as the number 3 CCG. So, executive decision making processes being what tjeybare, I can see anxiety over Lorcana boiling over into the OGL.
Maybe, Hasbro is a relatively small company, itni Microaoft and Activision level issue, and would mostly be vertical integration.
There have been one million CCGs since the advent of MtG. What does Lorcana have to do with "Disney using D&D's IP"?
I don't really know the American rules but would the total market dominance by Disney after the merger not matter?
Yes, and two of them, Pokémon and YuGiOh (both blatantly MyG ripoffs, as is Lorcana) outsell MtG year to year. Lorcana has a serious shot at taking away even more.of that market share. If Disney decided to put out a Disney Princess RPG (which I for one would 100% buy)...that could be the biggest market share threat D&D has ever faced, no joke. And so the whole point of the OGL changes, to control large companies entering their market, makes a sort of sense.
Dominance of which market? Hasbro merging with Mattel would probavly raise red flags, or Disney with WB/Discovery, but Disney and Hasbro are mostly different businesses.
Except the MtG thing doesn't have anything to do with the OGL, or WotC's IP. It is a matter of patent law.
The people who make high level decisions about D&D are the same people losing sleep over Lorcana. And what's-his-face, the D&D Operations guy specifically called out anxieties about Disney as a cause...and I don't think that was blowing smoke, I think Disney is literally giving his bosses heart attacks.
