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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 4751994" data-attributes="member: 2198">Well I had a long post typed out but the 404 goblins ate it.  So quick summary:"The regressive forces are in control."  Are they?  Maybe he has an accurate picture of the current polticial situation inside WotC's management.  Seeing as he hasn't worked there in years (and furthermore, works for the competition so his views are potentially biased), I am skeptical.  Whatever information he's getting from friends still working there is second-hand and most likely incomplete.It's equally possible that the "regressive forces" have scored a one-time victory with the PDF thing, having an easy case to make to the prime decision makers: low sales, high piracy, creates conflict with loyal retailers."OGL."  That decision happened long ago, so if the "regressive forces" were running the show at that point, other signs of the apocalypse other than the PDF thing would have turned up by now, no?  D&D is still more "open" to 3rd party participation than it was pre-OGL, and moreso than most (all?) other major RPGs (that aren't d20-derived, and thus open by definition).  Not embracing 100% open gaming isn't a sign of regressive leadership, unless White Wolf and other non-d20 industry players are all equally backwards-thinking.Everything else: conjecture & predictions based on conjecture.  The RPGA hasn't been cut to my knowledge, no one outside WotC knows the status or the current funding of the flubbed DDI apps, no one outside WotC has WotC's sales data, quality hasn't been cut, etc. etc.And even if some or all of those business contractions did happen, is it because of the "regressive forces" are running the show, or because we've been teetering on the edge of a global financial meltdown?  Or some mixture of the two?If he's basing his statements off some inside info (which he makes no claim of), he can cough that up.  Otherwise it's just an opinion regarding a business competitor, one whose leaderhip has partially rolled back the one (good) thing that he's known within the industry for.  Like I said before, we're all stuck reading the tea leaves.  The people who have the actual data that one could form meaningful predictions from aren't going to make it public, making this whole conversation irrelevant.and yet here we are on page 7.... sigh.</blockquote>

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