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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9407370" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>I'm not defending HASBRO. I never told you that you can't post your opinion but your response was oddly personal and borderline against forum policy because you made it about me personally not the ideas we're discussing on the thread.</p><p></p><p>I simply accept reality. It's not news that Cocks was behind the decision and even if we have absolute 100% confirmation it doesn't make any difference. Even if he had been fired there's no reason to believe any other CEO would have made better decisions, they may well have made worse.</p><p></p><p>I disagree with the idea that a CEO should fired for a single poor decision. It's overkill. I don't expect people to fall on their sword because they made a mistake, especially one that was quickly (for a bureaucracy) reversed.</p><p></p><p>To be clear, I'm not saying the OGL issue was a tempest in a teapot. It was a serious issue and obviously an unforced error. But it was an issue for a month or two before being abandoned a year and a half ago. Meanwhile I look what they have done since, put the SRD in CC and that they are going to do the same with older editions once the 2024 books are done. They're opening up DDB to 3PP, something I never expected.</p><p></p><p>HASBRO, and Cocks, are not the devil incarnate. Compared to the evil other corporations do on a regular basis, they barely register. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9407370, member: 6801845"] I'm not defending HASBRO. I never told you that you can't post your opinion but your response was oddly personal and borderline against forum policy because you made it about me personally not the ideas we're discussing on the thread. I simply accept reality. It's not news that Cocks was behind the decision and even if we have absolute 100% confirmation it doesn't make any difference. Even if he had been fired there's no reason to believe any other CEO would have made better decisions, they may well have made worse. I disagree with the idea that a CEO should fired for a single poor decision. It's overkill. I don't expect people to fall on their sword because they made a mistake, especially one that was quickly (for a bureaucracy) reversed. To be clear, I'm not saying the OGL issue was a tempest in a teapot. It was a serious issue and obviously an unforced error. But it was an issue for a month or two before being abandoned a year and a half ago. Meanwhile I look what they have done since, put the SRD in CC and that they are going to do the same with older editions once the 2024 books are done. They're opening up DDB to 3PP, something I never expected. HASBRO, and Cocks, are not the devil incarnate. Compared to the evil other corporations do on a regular basis, they barely register. 🤷♂️ [/QUOTE]
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