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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8941079" data-attributes="member: 6778210">I call it greed because it is greed, especially when it is carried out in this fashion. That you simply accept them doing it doesn't really change what it is. It's just a refusal of acknowledgement.Yeah, and I feel like this is hard to hold if you think it was just an ignorant mistake but that them trying to destroy the 3PP wasn't intended. It makes more sense if they were trying to get all the profits they could that they would see the 3PP market as something they could fully bring under their control.I don't really get where those comments come from, but even those comments aren't really contradicted by the idea that they wanted to destroy 3PPs because when you take them out of the equation, you don't need to copy anybody anymore.Really, there is more proof of intent in their actions that they wanted to wreck up and basically vassalize the whole 3PP market around D&D than the alternatives because the conditions in 1.1, 1.2, and the VTT Policy are as such that it basically demands it. Why destroy the OGL if you don't want to take full control of everything around you?It really feels like a lot of people want to avoid the whole "intent" question because it makes it harder to go back to how things were before, because once you try and decipher intent, only the worst ones really remain.I think that being a big company doesn't necessarily make you "evil", but how you choose to go about making your profits definitely does. In this case, carelessly hurting a lot of people for no real gain and pissing everyone off just to try and drive a few bucks into your hand definitely comes across as "evil" of the "neutral" variety.</blockquote>

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