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<blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8935671" data-attributes="member: 6778210"><p>You don't <em>need</em> to license it over to other VTTs to have that happen. Foundry has no license for D&D but you can still strip DNDBeyond of the info through it. They didn't do that, they tried killing off the rest of the VTT market preemptively.</p><p></p><p>When you nuke something, you aren't being surgical. You just nuke it. It's simpler to understand and hurts the competition more.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why? Just look at what happened to Magic, as well as their sky-high projections on how they want to build the brand.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Please demonstrate to me where WotC has acted with enough sincerity that we should trust their own explanations?</p><p></p><p>Really, it's not about "intelligence", because neither of our scenarios has it. Both are dumb moves. The difference is that their own explanation comes off as an excuse, where the devil made them do it ("We had to act!"). My version has a more logical, profit-driven idea behind it ("We're the market leaders, we can wreck our competitors and give ourselves the best chance to hit our goals!") and follows what they've been trying to do so far.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, but we have simpler, easier-to-justify scenarios right there. Why take the one that requires a heretofore unmentioned worry by Wizards rather than simply say "They are putting everything on 1DND, they are trying to maximize their market by killing their competition ahead of releasing their new edition and VTT"?</p><p></p><p>Again, it just comes off as an excuse and requires us to trust Wizards's own explanation of why they did what they did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justice and Rule, post: 8935671, member: 6778210"] You don't [I]need[/I] to license it over to other VTTs to have that happen. Foundry has no license for D&D but you can still strip DNDBeyond of the info through it. They didn't do that, they tried killing off the rest of the VTT market preemptively. When you nuke something, you aren't being surgical. You just nuke it. It's simpler to understand and hurts the competition more. Why? Just look at what happened to Magic, as well as their sky-high projections on how they want to build the brand. Please demonstrate to me where WotC has acted with enough sincerity that we should trust their own explanations? Really, it's not about "intelligence", because neither of our scenarios has it. Both are dumb moves. The difference is that their own explanation comes off as an excuse, where the devil made them do it ("We had to act!"). My version has a more logical, profit-driven idea behind it ("We're the market leaders, we can wreck our competitors and give ourselves the best chance to hit our goals!") and follows what they've been trying to do so far. Yes, but we have simpler, easier-to-justify scenarios right there. Why take the one that requires a heretofore unmentioned worry by Wizards rather than simply say "They are putting everything on 1DND, they are trying to maximize their market by killing their competition ahead of releasing their new edition and VTT"? Again, it just comes off as an excuse and requires us to trust Wizards's own explanation of why they did what they did. [/QUOTE]
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