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<blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 8927026" data-attributes="member: 7034611">this is the most charitable (to WotC) reading possible, let’s fix your analogy a bit, so it better reflects reality…It was an ecosystem built on land who’s owner is unclear. WotC arrived there first, but it was by no means their land, arguably a little of it is, but much is not. As others arrived, WotC had the idea that instead of everyone competing with each other and arguing over who owned which part and whether the concept of land ownership even existed, they should instead all work together and benefit together from this land.So they invited others onto the land because they realized that the improvements everyone would make would benefit all of them. They signed a contract with everyone, telling them that they could live there happily indefinitely and they all would prosper.Then, many years later, when the initial vision has been achieved and the land had become valuable beyond their wildest dreams, WotC got greedy. They realized that they got richer than the others and thought that they could break their contract and claim all the land as theirs, and that them being so much richer meant the others would just have to accept it as they were too weak to fight back.But WotC had not counted on the others having friends that would come to their aid and that together they could stand up to WotC and make them adhere to that contract they all had agreed to so long ago. After a lot of huffing and puffing, WotC saw the value of their shared land drop and feared for the success of their big new projects, so they reneged and did not break the contract after all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mamba, post: 8927026, member: 7034611"] this is the most charitable (to WotC) reading possible, let’s fix your analogy a bit, so it better reflects reality… It was an ecosystem built on land who’s owner is unclear. WotC arrived there first, but it was by no means their land, arguably a little of it is, but much is not. As others arrived, WotC had the idea that instead of everyone competing with each other and arguing over who owned which part and whether the concept of land ownership even existed, they should instead all work together and benefit together from this land. So they invited others onto the land because they realized that the improvements everyone would make would benefit all of them. They signed a contract with everyone, telling them that they could live there happily indefinitely and they all would prosper. Then, many years later, when the initial vision has been achieved and the land had become valuable beyond their wildest dreams, WotC got greedy. They realized that they got richer than the others and thought that they could break their contract and claim all the land as theirs, and that them being so much richer meant the others would just have to accept it as they were too weak to fight back. But WotC had not counted on the others having friends that would come to their aid and that together they could stand up to WotC and make them adhere to that contract they all had agreed to so long ago. After a lot of huffing and puffing, WotC saw the value of their shared land drop and feared for the success of their big new projects, so they reneged and did not break the contract after all. [/QUOTE]

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