Ray Winninger comments on the OGL

[Minigiant]

All true, the root of the issue is, as per usual.

Greed, and being publicly traded.

It's not even greed as much as the drive to please shareholders with higher and higher returns on investment.

The numbers I must sell at work only goes up. Never the same. Never down.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

And the recent history of Twitter tells the risks of a private individual rich enough to buy the IP.

 

[Retreater]

I understand emotions are running high right now, but how can WotC stop us from playing the way we want?

Based on the threats of the OGL: deleting content, closing businesses, threatening VTTs, shutting down commentators, silencing fans on their messageboards. Want me to continue?

 

[Justice and Rule]

All true, the root of the issue is, as per usual.

Greed, and being publicly traded.

Oh, it can happen with privately-traded companies. Did anyone say "Destroying the OGL" in the Elon Musk thread? This feels like the sort of "My playground, my rules" sort of thing that would have happened with someone like him if he bought D&D.

 

[Remathilis]

Maybe one day we'll figure out that the existence of corporations is the biggest cause of human suffering and rightly destroy them once and for all.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Well said Ray. Both nice and courageous at the same time!

 

[theCourier]

Yeah, it would take a cartoonish rich person to overpay for the D&D IP for it ever to not be under hands that aren't publically traded. But then you have a know problem.

What's happening to D&D could happen to any TTRPG IP. I tell yall right now. If Paizo ever becomes big and publically traded or bought by some entity that is: that free wiki is gone.

All you can hope that enough people stating disagreements with bad ideas like Ray can convince decisions like this before it's too late.

Oh dear god, Elon Musk is going to try and buy D&D

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Well that clears up the previous discussion over whether Ray was involved with this and pretty much also clears up any "why he suddenly left" discussion too.

That's interesting because it means this plan cannot be more than a few months old.

Literally every single piece of evidence we have supports it being only a few months old (perhaps as little as three), but it's interesting to see it effectively confirmed here.

 

[dave2008]

Well that clears up the previous discussion over whether Ray was involved with this and pretty much also clears up any "why he suddenly left" discussion too.

That's interesting because it means this plan cannot be more than a few months old.

Literally every single piece of evidence we have supports it being only a few months old (perhaps as little as three), but it's interesting to see it effectively confirmed here.

It seems that way. Does that make it better or worse? I makes me feel a bit better, but it makes Hasbro look even more inept IMO.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It seems that way. Does that make it better or worse? I makes me feel a bit better, but it makes Hasbro look even more inept IMO.

I mean, I don't see it as better or worse so much as, if it's something they rushed into, which strongly seems to be the case, they're probably less committed than if it was something planned for years.