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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8941393" data-attributes="member: 6778210">No, what I'm doing is acknowledging reality and the world.At the end of the day, Wizards could have grown their business more sustainably without destroying the community built up around it in search of a faster buck. They did not make that choice. Instead they made ridiculous profit projections and then looked to try and make them a reality. That's greed. Maximizing profits in the short term without thought of the cost in the long-term is exactly that.And who cares if other companies are greedier? That doesn't suddenly excuse this. The problem we have is that whenever someone does something like this people say "Well, it has to be this way!" and just normalizes it further, rather than saying "We shouldn't have to accept this". We successfully push back against these things and then self-neuter it by excusing the behavior with "Well, they were just doing what they had to". No, they didn't. They were making profits and growing before they did this just fine. It was the desire for "too much, too quick" is what did this.This is just a whole bunch of whataboutism. Yes, Paizo can do greedy things. Who the hell cares? We're in a thread that is about Wizards.I can do multiple things at once, amazingly enough. There are multiple companies I try not to do business with when I can because of their ethics problems. Acting like it's impossible is just sad.Also being angry at greedy, industry-harming actions is a "PF-fan" thing? Like, I didn't make this partisan and I criticized Paizo when they did stupid s****. It was only them unionizing that got me back to them.  The only people mentioning Paizo are the people who don't want to talk about what Wizards did in the first place.I mean, colloquially a trap can just be a decision where you are harmed by both outcomes despite it seeming benign, which is what I assume the intent was.Wizards didn't put up a warning sign, though. I mean, I thought we were getting away from overwrought metaphors, but the area they are putting the sign up on was occupied safely by a bunch of people. The OGL wasn't a sign, it was an ultimatum to people to either get the hell out or abide by new, very strict and disadvantageous rules.</blockquote>

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