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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4134669" data-attributes="member: 62992">To answer Mouseferatu specifically;I feel very strongly that if the corperate types get control of the CREATIVE direction of WoTC then D&D is DOOMED. I see the GSL as a kind of acid test of who is really in control of the direction of D&D.It has been stated many times by Clark of Necromancer games that Bill S and Linae etc are in favour of GSL, so IF GSL doesn't come through, then this indicates that gamers are not much listened to over at WoTC anymore, even the ones who work for the company.So my logic is very simple. Gamers make good games. Corporate people FACILITATE this by making financial decisions. Corporate people are very important to keeping any business afloat but when they start meddling in the creative direction of games, then things go downhill VERY quickly. This is because Corporates like SHORT-TERM gain and generally don't stay in a company very long. Look at the state of our planet to see where the kind of Short-term business logic has got us. Gamers are in it for the long-term, because they all have a stake in the game at a much deeper level.Take Games Workshop for example. They are a very successful company that makes business decisions that make perfect business sense, they just end up destroying whole swaves of the RPG market. They have just completely cut the most successful RPG of this year (at least in the UK it was outselling D&D 4:1) Dark Heresy because it doesn't fit in with their short-term business plans anymore. I see the same one day happening to D&D after they have alienated so many of us that no-one buys it anymore.What I am saying is that if the corporates, who have no emotional attachment to D&D, take over then sooner or later there will not be a game called D&D or there will be a game called D&D that completely unrecognisable to those who love the game and is just a cheap ploy to get our money.I would rather get out now than see the game I have loved for 25 years, rot before my eyes. I also feel that if more people took this stance then the corporate people at WoTC would be undermined and our gamer/designer friends would be empowered. I don't expect this to happen but one thing I have learned in this life is that I can control just one person; ME! So this is my protest. You don't have to agree, you just have to accept and respect my decision.</blockquote>

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