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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4656418" data-attributes="member: 177">Perhaps - that way leads the debate of "what counts as moral/ethical action for a business".  That's a goodly pool of quicksand there, and it was not my intention to step in it...I'll restate and rephrase below, in a manner to sidestep that particular puddle.True.  However, I am not sure it is relevant - simply because I have never seen or heard any cogent evidence that there is any "matter of survival" at hand.  Does anyone here have any real evidence, or even solid argument, that a 3rd party product ever took a real bite out of WotC sales?  If not, then there's no "matter of survival".  Third party publishers do not seem to be any threat to WotC.On the other hand, I am not sure there's much hard evidence that 3pp were a particular asset to WotC's overall bottom line, either.  We here, who are a small group of atypical gamers may collectively love and buy things from 3pp, but I am not sure that translates into significant benefits to WotC. The original intent of the OGL was to have it be a major benefit, but I strongly suspect that the benefit turned out to be questionable.So, lacking evidence that it is either a strong benefit or detriment, it is reasonable to expect the upper management to be... uninterested.  Current progress is consistent with this simply not being a major priority.  Rather than being quick and clean, it is turning into a slow, complicated beast.  That is normal corporate behavior, no?So - don't ascribe to particular intent what can be reasonably explained by apathy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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