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<blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8935448" data-attributes="member: 6778210"><p>I disagree completely. VTTs have a lot of competition, their own VTT is years off and by the time it comes out there will be several very established competitors. They may have the big name, but they want to assure complete dominance, and that is absolutely <em>not </em>assured given their monetization plans.</p><p></p><p>Rather, nuking the VTT market so that people don't have other places to go for their product makes their release far safer, especially if (like most big tech projects) they run into technical hurdles initially. This way people <em>have</em> to use their system because there simply aren't other options.</p><p></p><p>To me, it makes way more sense than Meta or Disney suddenly swooping in and trying to eat their lunch via the OGL. Much like the "We have to have this morality clause because RACISM~!", it comes off more as an excuse that might engender positive feelings from the community than the actual reason itself.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the community feedback matters more than people think. I don't think it was the <em>only</em> thing, but I think the <em><strong>overwhelmingly</strong></em> negative pushback was something they just didn't expect. I suspect they didn't think their community would be as passionate about this as they did, and I really think all the negative press (especially from influencers) probably freaked out a lot of people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justice and Rule, post: 8935448, member: 6778210"] I disagree completely. VTTs have a lot of competition, their own VTT is years off and by the time it comes out there will be several very established competitors. They may have the big name, but they want to assure complete dominance, and that is absolutely [I]not [/I]assured given their monetization plans. Rather, nuking the VTT market so that people don't have other places to go for their product makes their release far safer, especially if (like most big tech projects) they run into technical hurdles initially. This way people [I]have[/I] to use their system because there simply aren't other options. To me, it makes way more sense than Meta or Disney suddenly swooping in and trying to eat their lunch via the OGL. Much like the "We have to have this morality clause because RACISM~!", it comes off more as an excuse that might engender positive feelings from the community than the actual reason itself. I think the community feedback matters more than people think. I don't think it was the [I]only[/I] thing, but I think the [I][B]overwhelmingly[/B][/I] negative pushback was something they just didn't expect. I suspect they didn't think their community would be as passionate about this as they did, and I really think all the negative press (especially from influencers) probably freaked out a lot of people. [/QUOTE]
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