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Hasbro's CEO Reports OGL-Related D&D Beyond Cancellations Had Minimal Impact
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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8940871" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>And the pedantically correct but totally irrelevant response for this particular thread goes to .... wait for it .... Ruin Explorer!!! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🎉" title="Party popper :tada:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png" data-shortname=":tada:" /></p><p></p><p>Obviously nothing gets done in a corporation without there being a committee involved, probably multiple. It doesn't really change anything.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Did I say it was an "innocent error"? No. I said the decision was made by clueless management. Which ... yes ... probably includes multiple people.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My point is that this wasn't a plan to squash 3PP. It could have easily been based on poor judgment, dismissing people who knew better. Various aspects of the 1.1 sounded like the grab-bag of ideas you'd get out of a committee. But I find it humorous that some of the same people claim that WOTC wanted to steal every idea from 3PP while simultaneously shutting down all 3PP. Like ... if you shut everyone down, who are you going to steal ideas from? I see no reason to believe there was ever a plan to shut down every 3PP, there's no business incentive to do so. There's no reason to believe that it was anything other than a bureaucratic attempt to stop a major competitor ala Pathfinder and protect the brand. </p><p></p><p>Unless of course you were in the actual meetings when these decisions were made? The problem I see is people claiming that WOTC is lying because they aren't affirming a narrative based on supposition and unfounded hearsay. Was it stupid? Yes. If they had gone forward with it would it have been bad? Yes. Are they outright lying (and, let's face it everybody stretches the truth now and then)? Not necessarily. There's no motivation for them to shut down every 3PP. The VTT was a little different, but again that could have been in large part ignorance.</p><p></p><p>Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they were cackling like a villain in a bad movie, plotting how they're going to somehow crush every other TTRPG in existence. But given Occam's Razor between that and corporate incompetence? I'd bet on incompetence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8940871, member: 6801845"] And the pedantically correct but totally irrelevant response for this particular thread goes to .... wait for it .... Ruin Explorer!!! 🎉 Obviously nothing gets done in a corporation without there being a committee involved, probably multiple. It doesn't really change anything. Did I say it was an "innocent error"? No. I said the decision was made by clueless management. Which ... yes ... probably includes multiple people. My point is that this wasn't a plan to squash 3PP. It could have easily been based on poor judgment, dismissing people who knew better. Various aspects of the 1.1 sounded like the grab-bag of ideas you'd get out of a committee. But I find it humorous that some of the same people claim that WOTC wanted to steal every idea from 3PP while simultaneously shutting down all 3PP. Like ... if you shut everyone down, who are you going to steal ideas from? I see no reason to believe there was ever a plan to shut down every 3PP, there's no business incentive to do so. There's no reason to believe that it was anything other than a bureaucratic attempt to stop a major competitor ala Pathfinder and protect the brand. Unless of course you were in the actual meetings when these decisions were made? The problem I see is people claiming that WOTC is lying because they aren't affirming a narrative based on supposition and unfounded hearsay. Was it stupid? Yes. If they had gone forward with it would it have been bad? Yes. Are they outright lying (and, let's face it everybody stretches the truth now and then)? Not necessarily. There's no motivation for them to shut down every 3PP. The VTT was a little different, but again that could have been in large part ignorance. Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they were cackling like a villain in a bad movie, plotting how they're going to somehow crush every other TTRPG in existence. But given Occam's Razor between that and corporate incompetence? I'd bet on incompetence. [/QUOTE]
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