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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8912200" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>Yes, that's the one he means.</p><p></p><p>And yes, this video pretty much confirms most of everything many of us had discerned from their prior moves that emerged over the past few weeks.</p><p></p><p>Yanno, if they had just amended the OGL 1.0a to remove interactive software from it, and had de-authorized the 1.0a, but left everything else in the 1.0a INTACT in 1.0(b) -- and not strapped a frikkin BOMB to their chest with this nonsensical 3pp royalty crap back in December?</p><p></p><p><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)">They would have pretty much gotten away with it. </span></em></strong>Their core commercial concern would have been met, no D&D drama stories in <em>The Guardian</em> and other mainstream newspapers, no <em>real</em> threats of a fork in 5e, no ORC, no PR carpet-bombs for 2 weeks, no mass cancellations of DDB (well , apart from Foundry users when it stops working, that is) -- <em>no nothing, really. Dungeons & Drama </em>would not have become a meme. The de-authorization bit would not have mattered if they made it clear this was not in any way an attack on 3pp and they can go right on publishing; affirming all 1.0(a) works to date in 1.0(b) and their explicit right to continue with it.</p><p></p><p>Go that route? In the end, all that would have produced is just some upset Foundry VTT users. We would have been vocal, sure, but that would have ebbed away in a month or four - and on its own? Not much of consequence, save for some temporary smoke and noise over Foundry. The vast majority of D&D players <em>would never have even heard about it</em> or seen so much a tweet, let alone a headline on Facebook. Some Foundry users would have grumpily moved on to a 6e 3d vtt in a year or two, and most of the rest who didn't to PF2. Can WotC afford to lose 20-50k customers? <strong>No problem.</strong> <em>Drop in the bucket</em>, really at WotC's current scale with 5e. Barely a quarter's normal market churn.</p><p></p><p>Which tells you that WotC is being mismanaged -- and whoever did this (it seems it was Chris Cao) was DUMB and did not understand what he was doing at all. Which means <strong><em>it is likely that he still doesn't.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Is that the sort of leadership and judgment you are putting faith in? <em>Good luck with all of that.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 8912200, member: 20741"] Yes, that's the one he means. And yes, this video pretty much confirms most of everything many of us had discerned from their prior moves that emerged over the past few weeks. Yanno, if they had just amended the OGL 1.0a to remove interactive software from it, and had de-authorized the 1.0a, but left everything else in the 1.0a INTACT in 1.0(b) -- and not strapped a frikkin BOMB to their chest with this nonsensical 3pp royalty crap back in December? [B][I][COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)]They would have pretty much gotten away with it. [/COLOR][/I][/B]Their core commercial concern would have been met, no D&D drama stories in [I]The Guardian[/I] and other mainstream newspapers, no [I]real[/I] threats of a fork in 5e, no ORC, no PR carpet-bombs for 2 weeks, no mass cancellations of DDB (well , apart from Foundry users when it stops working, that is) -- [I]no nothing, really. Dungeons & Drama [/I]would not have become a meme. The de-authorization bit would not have mattered if they made it clear this was not in any way an attack on 3pp and they can go right on publishing; affirming all 1.0(a) works to date in 1.0(b) and their explicit right to continue with it. Go that route? In the end, all that would have produced is just some upset Foundry VTT users. We would have been vocal, sure, but that would have ebbed away in a month or four - and on its own? Not much of consequence, save for some temporary smoke and noise over Foundry. The vast majority of D&D players [I]would never have even heard about it[/I] or seen so much a tweet, let alone a headline on Facebook. Some Foundry users would have grumpily moved on to a 6e 3d vtt in a year or two, and most of the rest who didn't to PF2. Can WotC afford to lose 20-50k customers? [B]No problem.[/B] [I]Drop in the bucket[/I], really at WotC's current scale with 5e. Barely a quarter's normal market churn. Which tells you that WotC is being mismanaged -- and whoever did this (it seems it was Chris Cao) was DUMB and did not understand what he was doing at all. Which means [B][I]it is likely that he still doesn't.[/I][/B] Is that the sort of leadership and judgment you are putting faith in? [I]Good luck with all of that.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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