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<blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2745905" data-attributes="member: 12706"><p>Right. Most of the things that Preston Tucker came up with in the automotive industry were not very sexy or exciting, and they didn't reinvent the wheel, but they most definitely WERE <em>innovative</em>. Innovative does not have to equal exciting, it just has to make things work better - even just slightly better.</p><p></p><p>I think WOTC <em>has</em> been <em>very</em> innovative. Their responsiveness to demand for product that meets the scale their company produces product on - DMG 2, Unearthed Arcana, and such - maybe not innovative from a general marketing perspective, but highly innovative for a company built in large part around TSR. And the OGL to allow companies that produce on smaller scales to meet smaller, more specific demands - for a company to admit they can't be everything to everyone and <strong>give up potential revenue streams</strong> to make their customers happier and their core products stronger is, to me, <em>remarkably</em> innovative. And again, maybe not very innovative when you realize that this had been done with software before. But still, the specific application to another type of product - innovation.</p><p></p><p>That said, I don't think they've been very innovative lately. I'm not sure that's a bad thing though - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. What could they do from here to innovate that wouldn't either risk breaking things (when they've already got a small number of people like Diaglo suggesting they've done just that) or just be flat-out gimmicky? I can only think of one thing right off the bat - take the next step on the aforementioned admission and carefully license the name out to other companies to market to the retro demand (like Diaglo) and to the test-bed next-gen 4th Edition demand (Which could be great, if done ight: Plausible deniability if it tanks - "That wasn't us, so <em>of course</em> it wasn't up to our standards. Maybe our next licensee will do better.". Reassimilation if it soars.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Torm, post: 2745905, member: 12706"] Right. Most of the things that Preston Tucker came up with in the automotive industry were not very sexy or exciting, and they didn't reinvent the wheel, but they most definitely WERE [I]innovative[/I]. Innovative does not have to equal exciting, it just has to make things work better - even just slightly better. I think WOTC [I]has[/I] been [I]very[/I] innovative. Their responsiveness to demand for product that meets the scale their company produces product on - DMG 2, Unearthed Arcana, and such - maybe not innovative from a general marketing perspective, but highly innovative for a company built in large part around TSR. And the OGL to allow companies that produce on smaller scales to meet smaller, more specific demands - for a company to admit they can't be everything to everyone and [B]give up potential revenue streams[/B] to make their customers happier and their core products stronger is, to me, [I]remarkably[/I] innovative. And again, maybe not very innovative when you realize that this had been done with software before. But still, the specific application to another type of product - innovation. That said, I don't think they've been very innovative lately. I'm not sure that's a bad thing though - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. What could they do from here to innovate that wouldn't either risk breaking things (when they've already got a small number of people like Diaglo suggesting they've done just that) or just be flat-out gimmicky? I can only think of one thing right off the bat - take the next step on the aforementioned admission and carefully license the name out to other companies to market to the retro demand (like Diaglo) and to the test-bed next-gen 4th Edition demand (Which could be great, if done ight: Plausible deniability if it tanks - "That wasn't us, so [I]of course[/I] it wasn't up to our standards. Maybe our next licensee will do better.". Reassimilation if it soars.) :) [/QUOTE]
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