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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8897221" data-attributes="member: 18">This is a fundamental truth of human psychology, isn't it? It inform politics hugely worldwide too, but particularly in the West.If the decision was utterly reckless, and/or clearly made for bad reasons (like nepotism or helping a buddy or something), and clearly was against the health of the company, Company Directors in the UK actually can get taken to court. Sometimes they even are. Not 1/10th as often as they should be, but it can and does happen.Nothing WotC have done seems to meet that standard. Grossly misunderstanding your competitors and audience isn't reckless, it's just dumb, and being dumb doesn't reach the threshold needed.If they'd had that as a fixed carrot, they'd have got some signatures. If they'd done that and just poison-pill OGL1.0a/made 1.1 opt-in, and had slightly better language in a couple of other places, they'd have tons. Missed chances. Dumb not reckless though!I think the main idiocy with the 25% is that the only people they sent the OGL 1.1 and term sheet to were the exact companies that either do make over $750k, or are very near to it. So exactly the people you don't want to scare/upset? They intentionally tried to scare them into signing a document which would make it 15% instead. Even 15% unfortunately would destroy profitability for many of those companies. Even if you were somehow making 30% profits (great in ANY industry, outstanding in RPGs - 10% is considered "good" - <a href="https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/accounting/profit-margin/#:~:text=You%20may%20be%20asking%20yourself,a%205%25%20margin%20is%20low" target="_blank">Profit Margin</a>.), that'd halve your profits, right then and there. Talk about a blow!And we see now it didn't even matter to WotC! They could drop that provision without caring! Because they went straight to 0%!Dumb not reckless lol.</blockquote>

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