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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 8903828" data-attributes="member: 9053"><p>It never stops amazing me when people ask the question "why are these people upset? Why are going nuclear on this?" When you have people who have built a job, a business, a career out of the OGL and this just got dropped on them. It's sort of a Dread Pirate Roberts "good job, probably have to kill you in the morning" thing. We're only a few days out from discussion of how this had to be a lie and been made up.</p><p></p><p>I am not in the industry, but I have friends who are, but again the question comes up "why do you care? What's upsetting you about this?" I hope questions like this come from a good place but as someone who has been in this since the 1970s, what's going on is just crushing it. It's destroying all of the good will that has taken almost 10 years to build.</p><p></p><p>I am an unabashed fan of 4E, but I also realize that what happened during that time was incredibly bad for the hobby. And I thought that everyone had learned from that. I suppose this is what happens when you put people who aren't gamers and don't understand gaming culture in charge of what happens to D&D.</p><p></p><p>So when the question "why do you care?" comes up, I just have to point to all of the games we either aren't going to see or might see in a much reduced way. Is that enough? And people are genuinely upset that the whole life they've built over 20 years is in jeopardy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 8903828, member: 9053"] It never stops amazing me when people ask the question "why are these people upset? Why are going nuclear on this?" When you have people who have built a job, a business, a career out of the OGL and this just got dropped on them. It's sort of a Dread Pirate Roberts "good job, probably have to kill you in the morning" thing. We're only a few days out from discussion of how this had to be a lie and been made up. I am not in the industry, but I have friends who are, but again the question comes up "why do you care? What's upsetting you about this?" I hope questions like this come from a good place but as someone who has been in this since the 1970s, what's going on is just crushing it. It's destroying all of the good will that has taken almost 10 years to build. I am an unabashed fan of 4E, but I also realize that what happened during that time was incredibly bad for the hobby. And I thought that everyone had learned from that. I suppose this is what happens when you put people who aren't gamers and don't understand gaming culture in charge of what happens to D&D. So when the question "why do you care?" comes up, I just have to point to all of the games we either aren't going to see or might see in a much reduced way. Is that enough? And people are genuinely upset that the whole life they've built over 20 years is in jeopardy. [/QUOTE]
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