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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 8891569" data-attributes="member: 93631">I maybe haven't caught up on all the &quot;OA&quot; stuff and have never heard of them until now, but, while they apparently disagree on the legalities, they don't seem to disagree with our hero, Ryan Dancey, on the ethics. Ryan was rather matter-of-fact in that interview yesterday that the decision-makers at Wizards and Hasbro are &quot;good people&quot; and that they're just making a business decision (whether that business decision is good or bad) that they think will return the greatest value for Hasbro shareholders.I know that some here look at statements like &quot;value for shareholders&quot; and their brains print out &quot;murder all the baby seals,&quot; but I have absolutely no difficulty seeing this from the perspective of the Wizards C-suite folks. While he admits it's speculative, I think Ryan's analysis of the situation is spot on. It's basically the position I was adopting here last week, before all the leaks made it clear just how many baby seals were being murdered. I totally get their need to reclaim control of their IP as part of their business strategy (ONE BEEEELION DOLLARS). These people want to be successful, they want to keep their own jobs, and they think this decision is necessary to reach the company's goals as a business. And as Ryan said in that interview, &quot;people lose their jobs every day.&quot; It's not a Wizards executive's place to worry about the graphic designer's job at Kobold Press.The problem from my perspective is that I'm not a Hasbro employee or shareholder (unless fractionally as part of an index fund). I'm a customer. I don't care about their jobs or their business strategy or their future profits or any of it, except insofar as they produce stuff that entertains my friends and me. And considering all that, I'm left with a single thought:If they're willing to do this to all of them, what are they planning to do to me?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 8891569, member: 93631"] I maybe haven't caught up on all the "OA" stuff and have never heard of them until now, but, while they apparently disagree on the legalities, they don't seem to disagree with our hero, Ryan Dancey, on the ethics. Ryan was rather matter-of-fact in that interview yesterday that the decision-makers at Wizards and Hasbro are "good people" and that they're just making a business decision (whether that business decision is good or bad) that they think will return the greatest value for Hasbro shareholders. I know that some here look at statements like "value for shareholders" and their brains print out "murder all the baby seals," but I have absolutely no difficulty seeing this from the perspective of the Wizards C-suite folks. While he admits it's speculative, I think Ryan's analysis of the situation is spot on. It's basically the position I was adopting here last week, before all the leaks made it clear just how many baby seals were being murdered. I totally get their need to reclaim control of their IP as part of their business strategy (ONE BEEEELION DOLLARS). These people want to be successful, they want to keep their own jobs, and they think this decision is necessary to reach the company's goals as a business. And as Ryan said in that interview, "people lose their jobs every day." It's not a Wizards executive's place to worry about the graphic designer's job at Kobold Press. The problem from my perspective is that I'm not a Hasbro employee or shareholder (unless fractionally as part of an index fund). I'm a customer. [I]I [/I]don't care about [I]their [/I]jobs or their business strategy or their future profits or any of it, except insofar as they produce stuff that entertains my friends and me. And considering all that, I'm left with a single thought: [I]If they're willing to do [/I]this[I] to all of them, what are they planning to do to [/I]me? [/QUOTE]

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