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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8941447" data-attributes="member: 6778210">Their own.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/13/dungeons-dragons-had-its-biggest-year-despite-the-coronavirus.html[/URL]You can find more of this if you want. They've been growing at a steady, solid rate for a while now. If you want to play the "by whose standard, they've been hailed as being a massive success story. The problem is that they made huge promises of sextupling their profits from D&D in the next decade and that's a huge ask.The problem there is that malice and incompetence are often hand-in-hand. Given the changes they set out, that we know they specifically fought with the Dev team to keep the royalty line low, that there is no reason to touch the OGL unless you want to harm the 3PP community, that their VTT policy is specifically designed to protect their monetization goals... Yeah, there's malice there.There's also a common catchphrase that goes "Nothing personal. It's just business.", but it tends to be pretty damn personal for the person on the other end of it.No one is actually saying this, people are just saying "Man, Wizards did a s*****y thing and we probably shouldn't forgive them so easily", at which point everyone jumps in talking about how they had to do this and that it was one bad mistake and that they've backpeddled and how we need to put it all behind them and get back on-board...I don't think Wizards needs to be "punished" any more than me not trusting them. But apparently that is just too much for some people who just want to put this whole thing behind them just under a month since it all went down. If you want to, fine. But at least get what I'm saying right instead of strawmanning my position completely.There are plenty of mundane kinds of evil in the world, especially the corporate one. That doesn't make them all equal, but it doesn't make them not evil, either. Just letting that stuff go is how we got to this place where we just let companies off the hook for doing these things. All these excuses just normalizes this behavior, and I don't want to do that.In the case of Wizards, it's a helluva lot easier to push back against this in my everyday life than against Russia. But I do both where I can. I don't see a reason to compromise if I don't have to, and in this case I really don't.</blockquote>

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