So here's the position Chris Cocks is in - his subsidiary has completely effed up its hostile attempt to aggressively takeover an entire hobby (surely no-one is going to take issue with this description of the events???).
Oh what the heck... I'm feeling frosty this morning, let me try!
D&D is not the "entire hobby". There are many hundreds of roleplaying games out there (and have been for 40 years) that are not in any way connected to Dungeons & Dragons
OR the Open Game License. And thus nothing regarding what WotC did was a hostile act against those companies and games.
So that's the first one we can shoot down.
WotC revoking of the OGL would not have impacted anyone who published through DMs Guild. Those people's products would have been completely unaffected. So there was no hostility aimed at those products.
(Unless of course a person wishes to claim the percentage a person has to pay to OneBookShelf and WotC as a fee to publish under the DMsG to be hostile-- but if that's the case then all those people were voluntarily walking into a hostile situation and there's no reason to feel bad for them. They "signed the contract" knowing what they had to give up and they did so volunarily. )
So that's a second one we can shoot down.
What ended up being offered by OGL was a part of the Dungeons & Dragons game area in the Roleplaying Game hobby that the owners of the game controlled for themselves up until that point that they made the OGL. Thus people who used the OGL to produce D&D content were not breaking into new grounds of the RPG landscape... they were moving INTO the section of the landscape that had been TSR/WotCs. Which means that the attempt of WotC to revoke/change the OGL was them just trying to reclaim that part of the landscape that they used to own. They weren't "taking over" anything that wasn't originally theirs to begin with. So no, the "entire hobby" was again not impacted by this.
So there's number 3.
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Look, I get it. People were and are pissed. It's understandable. But at the same time... if someone chooses to express it in such a way that the resultant response isn't sympathy but rather a cock of the head and a "Whaaaaaaa?"... then we have to hope that person isn't actually trying to change minds, but rather just vent. And if it is just venting... then hopefully they are fine that their venting is being looked at askew.
If venting just for the sake of expressing themselves and getting their anger out is all they want, then more power to them! I hope they feel better putting finger to keyboard and getting it all out onscreen.
But if they are actually looking to change minds? Then the hyperbole usually does not usually work. At least not on a lot of people. It certainly doesn't to me. I instead waste 20 minutes typing up refutations to the hyperbole instead, LOL.