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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 8941267" data-attributes="member: 40810">WotC is not a charity either. Whether someone else can make a living on their product is of no concern to them. When they do deem it beneficial they enable it, when they do not.The OGL/SRD was not gift to the world but a calculated move to dominate the market and kill all other systems. At least for the management. Maybe the architects of it truly just wanted to give a git to the gamers, but they certainly had to hide this intention and wrap it in promises of market dominance to get green lights to proceed from management.It all but worked. Remember when almost everything was suddenly D20? Even if it had a long history of something else. It was jump on the D20 bandwagon or dieWhen their internal calculations and forecast now say that a couple hundred small RPG companies being able to make a living or not is inconsequential for the further growth of the market, then the survival of those small publishers stops being of concern to WotC.If they see an opportunity for growth that just so happens to kill those companies as a side effect, that side effect will not cause them to hesitate for a second.Not that they immediately set out to kill them or merely see this as a positive side effect, it's just not longer a factor at all. Decision will not be taken just to kill them, but no decision will even be taking their death or survival into consideration at all.Whatever fallout hits those small publishers will not be of any concern to WotC when they they a good chance to secure a lions share of future market trends (e.g. become dominant in VTT).Whether they look only at short term or at least midterm if not long term is mostly up to the current leadership. If the CEO only has a 7 year contract of which he actually only plans to fulfill 5 years before going into full paid garden leave for the rest while a successor takes over, than expect brutal short term thinking.</blockquote>

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