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<blockquote data-quote="zedturtle" data-source="post: 9455183" data-attributes="member: 6830534">Staffan did a good job of representing my thoughts. For certain managers, the deliverables are all that matters, and I could easily imagine that someone who went to business school and learned that &quot;if you want to make more money selling widgets, you need to either increase the widget's price, decrease the widget's cost, or make more widgets per hour&quot; would see WotC as a widget producer and try to implement strategies that they had learned in school. That might well mean a misguided attempt at trying to keep creatives on task (micromanaging, e.g. &quot;no more b.s. sessions, just sit at your desk and write&quot;), or to test the waters on AI content, or to see an open license as enabling competition instead of supporting their own products.And, yeah, I am probably being unfair to some of the management at WotC and Hasbro. I am sure some of them are working hard to help folks make great stuff. But it does not feel like it used to, with third-party folk being a valued piece of the pie.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zedturtle, post: 9455183, member: 6830534"] Staffan did a good job of representing my thoughts. For certain managers, the deliverables are all that matters, and I could easily imagine that someone who went to business school and learned that "if you want to make more money selling widgets, you need to either increase the widget's price, decrease the widget's cost, or make more widgets per hour" would see WotC as a widget producer and try to implement strategies that they had learned in school. That might well mean a misguided attempt at trying to keep creatives on task (micromanaging, e.g. "no more b.s. sessions, just sit at your desk and write"), or to test the waters on AI content, or to see an open license as enabling competition instead of supporting their own products. And, yeah, I am probably being unfair to some of the management at WotC and Hasbro. I am sure some of them are working hard to help folks make great stuff. But it does not feel like it used to, with third-party folk being a valued piece of the pie. [/QUOTE]

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