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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7691126" data-attributes="member: 22424">In that case... yes, I guess it is. <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=":)" />Sure. It wasn't meant as a criticism. This move by WotC is fairly stunning, so I'm far from having considered the consequences! <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=":)" />Unless somebody publishes something game-changing, I doubt DMguild will really make that much difference. WotC were already the dominant player in the market; I suspect this move will entrench, rather than enhance, that dominance.The revenues for most products there must be pretty negligible - a few bucks a time for a couple of hundred copies. In the course of the year, the total is probably less than they got from "Princes of the Apocalypse" and "Out of the Abyss".My gut feeling, which may of course be wrong, is that this really isn't about the money, and is instead down partly to a genuine commitment to the principle of open gaming, and partly down to refreshing the talent pool (as someone mentioned on the other thread) - if the next Mearls should happen to appear, WotC will then be able to find him (or her) easily.</blockquote>

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