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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8908638" data-attributes="member: 19857">I don't think Wizards actually can regain trust at this point, so to a large degree what they do next is kind of moot.  They've at a minimum shown themselves to be incompetent in the one area that they need to be competent to be trustworthy - understanding the broader tabletop RPG market and their actual place in it. Possibly they're not incompetent but actively malicious - they know what position they hold and are purposefully being disruptive. Either way it's not good.Trust is a thing that's easy to lose and very hard to regain. It would take an effort on par with the original OGL and d20STL to even start to bring it back. Ironically the whole reason the OGL/STL was created was so that Wizards could try to regain the trust of the community after the disastrous and malicious tenure of T$R as the stewards of D&D.(I was thinking about this - it really is the case that for me at least the Wizards purchase of D&D was a bit of a reset in my attitude towards D&D and TSR. I'd fallen off the D&D train in the 90s in large part because TSR was just a terrible company online and I didn't want to support them. I came back to D&D with Wizards in large part because they said all the right things and did all the right things to indicate that they weren't going to be TSR and they understood how bad that was.  20+ years later and Hasbro is right back where TSR was with me, destroying all of that goodwill in one fell swoop.)</blockquote>

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