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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 8908900" data-attributes="member: 93631">I know you think this is something we just have to accept based on what they've been willing to surrender, but I don't believe it for a minute. Some corners of the OSR have been producing highly visible material for years under the OGL that WotC would no doubt consider &quot;obscene&quot; or &quot;offensive,&quot; and it hasn't done 1 hp of damage to the D&amp;D brand. You know what has done extraordinary damage to the brand? Their efforts to &quot;deauthorize&quot; a twenty-year-old agreement with their community.This is and always has been the lipstick on the pig. It seems so obviously and transparently the lipstick on the pig that I'm surprised anyone accepts it at face value. I'm not even opposed to a morality clause -- they're all the rage these days -- but that doesn't require me to accept the proposition that it's what this is &quot;really about.&quot;It's the video game and VTT stuff (and the gray area between them). They just spent $146 million on D&amp;D Beyond. It's the core of their product strategy going forward, the heart of their plan to build a billion-dollar business. This ain't complicated.I understand why they want to do it. I understand why they're willing to nuke the community commons over it. You have to break a few eggs to make a billion-dollar omelet. I get it.Problem is, those eggs matter more to me than their omelet, and I'm one of the few here who would likely pay up to nibble on it. So bottom line: They have to choose between me and deauthorization. I have no illusions about what they're going to choose.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 8908900, member: 93631"] I know you think this is something we just have to accept based on what they've been willing to surrender, but I don't believe it for a minute. Some corners of the OSR have been producing highly visible material for years under the OGL that WotC would no doubt consider "obscene" or "offensive," and it hasn't done 1 hp of damage to the D&D brand. You know what has done extraordinary damage to the brand? Their efforts to "deauthorize" a twenty-year-old agreement with their community. This is and always has been the lipstick on the pig. It seems [I]so obviously and transparently [/I]the lipstick on the pig that I'm surprised [I]anyone [/I]accepts it at face value. I'm not even opposed to a morality clause -- they're all the rage these days -- but that doesn't require me to accept the proposition that it's what this is "really about." It's the video game and VTT stuff (and the gray area between them). They just spent [B]$146 million[/B] on D&D Beyond. It's the core of their product strategy going forward, the heart of their plan to build a billion-dollar business. This ain't complicated. I understand why they want to do it. I understand why they're willing to nuke the community commons over it. You have to break a few eggs to make a billion-dollar omelet. I get it. Problem is, those eggs matter more [I]to me[/I] than their omelet, and I'm one of the few here who would likely pay up to nibble on it. So bottom line: They have to choose between me and deauthorization. I have no illusions about what they're going to choose. [/QUOTE]

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