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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4748208" data-attributes="member: 22779">I was mulling this over today on my walk to work.  And I was thinking about the point that WOTC is/is not the leader it was.So, let's look at days gone by when we mostly agree that it was the leader.  They gave us the OGL.  Probably the single biggest change on the hobby since White Wolf.  Yup, no disagreement here.  They led the charge to bring gaming back and everyone followed.  Lots of companies over the years have come out with their own versions of an SRD and many have d20'd their game and tied it to the original SRD.Ok, there's the leadership of yesteryear.Fast forward to today.  What is WOTC doing.  Let's gloss over this current kerfuffle, because, IMO, it's too early to really say one way or another if this is a big deal or not.  It might be, it might not be.  I don't know.But, let's look at what WOTC IS doing.  The DDI.  They are the only (AFAIK) gaming company that is embracing online media and combining it with PnP gaming.  No one else has done this before.  No other company has anything like the Rules Compendium - where the published books are added within weeks of release.  Same with the Character Generator.Now, they have misstepped.  Gleemax is a big bloody pothole right there.But, the online subscription thing is starting to gather steam.  Monte Cook has jumped at the model.  Paizo is kinda sorta doing it as well with their Pathfinder stuff - part print, part pdf.  How long do you think it will be before other gaming companies start doing similar things?  If the DDI really picks up steam (and that's a big IF), how long will it be before we see a White Wolf version of the DDI along with dedicated game table?I think saying that WOTC is no longer the leader is ignoring what they are doing.  What other gaming company is making podcasts with Internet celebs?  What other gaming company grants money to college gaming groups (from the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20070108a" target="_blank">Expand your Role - 2007</a> - are they still doing this?)  What other gaming company spends thousands, and probably tens of thousands, on maintaining organized RPG play (ok, White Wolf probably does this too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)?  The point being, I don't think you can look at this one thing and decide that WOTC is abandoning gamers.  Yes, there are those out there who are pissed at WOTC and will continue to be so.  But, try to be objective about it.</blockquote>

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