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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8941861" data-attributes="member: 6778210">Uh, that proof isn't a proof, but merely a bold assertion... and one that in modern times, feels woefully inaccurate. We live in an age where "the cruelty is the point" got coined for political policy actions, so acting like malice alone can't explain a decision I think misses the reality we live in.Along with that, Hanlon and Occam are not substitutes for actual arguments. If we had no facts or context, maybe that would hold up. But we have the documents they released, as well as the Brink interviews. There's a pretty clear throughline, and to just default to Hanlon misses what we do know.That's a cool story. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" />But I think your idea of what happened, that there was no malice involved, doesn't match up with the reality we see. Just watch some of the Brink interviews, where he talks about how he was clearly aware of the OGL stuff and was involved in discussion about it (he says he was both at the table and shielding the studio from these things) as well as his claim that they argued to raise the threshold for royalties. It beggars belief that Kyle didn't, at some point, bring up the obvious reasons and fallout that my come from doing this.So to me, it comes off as incredibly unlikely that Wizards did not know how harmful these moves could be and how the community might react. In fact, I'd say it's practically unbelievable that they didn't have a reasonable idea of what would happen. Yet, they continued their path. It seems obvious to me that Wizards was just willing to take that heat to try and do it, especially given their response and follow-up.At least, it seems more likely than Wizards stumbling into this situation like Mr. Magoo, not able to see the obvious. That just comes off as incredibly infantilizing to the corporate people there, as well as just ignoring what I am repeatedly told is a driving force behind their actions: money. They aren't a charity, or so I am told, so why would they care about the 3PP market beyond what they can get out of it? Their actions seem pretty clear: vassalize the market and give themselves direct control of it. Both OGL 1.1 and 1.2 are very clearly focused giving them that sort of power one way or another. Who cares if they get hurt, since it's not greedy to make as much money as they desire. I'm told that's the whole point, so why wouldn't they try it?To me, the ignorance here isn't Wizards missing what the consequences would be, but simply thinking they could wait them out. And again, that happens all the time in the corporate world: companies weather the outrage, people forget and everything moves on.Or am I being too naïve here?</blockquote>

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