RuinousPowers
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I doubt this will be D&D's death knell, but hopefully they will take such a hit that they don't think they can act with impunity anymore. It's a great example why you can't trust the 800 lbs gorilla in the room.
I mean, they've had three attempts now, but they're just profoundly "not getting it", so what are we supposed to expecting?
What I actually expect is later this week we get yet another OGL, and it's got the same huge problems with non-opt-in deauthorization - i.e. claiming you can never make an OGL 1.0a product again and the complete removal of the concept of OGC, meaning nothing can ever be shared again. Problems that literally mean it's not an OGL, so add that name the pile of lies.
Why do people keep making romantic relationship parallels with WotC...? They are a service provider, not my significant other. They aren't even our friends, let alone romantic partners.WotC wasn't themselves a "billion dollar business" until less than 5 years ago so that's nonsensical.
And I honestly don't remember WotC doing anything ethically "questionable" in 3.XE.
The GSL was the first time I had cause to question the ethics of WotC re: D&D.
5E was so well-behaved ethics-wise, until recently, that I had quite forgotten about that.
Also this argument is hilarious - "You didn't leave the when Bobby took a crap in your living room, you didn't leave when Bobby took a piss on your curtains, you didn't leave when Bobby threw up on your cat, but you're leaving now he punched you in the face?!?!?". Like, do you not see that, at best, you're making the company look like crap and just suggesting we should all accept bad behaviour because we did before? That's bananas space moon logic.
You can definitely clone 5E and ORC is 100% irrelevant to whether you can (if you think it is relevant, you literally don't understand how the law works). That's not even going to be a question. WotC launching a legal attack on someone cloning 5E outside the OGL would be absolute suicide on multiple levels.Well they may not be able to revoke the OGL and ORC may not let you clone 5E.
Back in 2000, I believe WotC wanted to make fun games providing customers with something of value.Did you think they respected you 5, 10, or 20 years ago, theybtheybwerr part of a billion dollar business and did queationabke things all the time...?
That you're interpreting that extremely intentionally un-romantic and gross analogy as "romantic" is absolutely wild stuff.Why do people keep making romantic relationship parallels with WotC...?
No, you're not allowed to do this.And the OGL is about legal dealings between parties who are not me (which aren't probably illegal or particularly unethical that I can tell, just business), not myself putting up with being abused.
LOL no. Also your own logic destroys that, frankly.n the 3.x era, their treatment of employees (such as the traditional Holiday layoffs) were worse than any OGL shenanigans in an ethical analysis.
I don't think that's really "ethically problematic", rather "problematic" in an entirely different sense but to be fair I've never seen it.He'll, some of the 3 X products were more ethically problematic (my wife was horrified looking through 3E Oriental Adventures at Half-Price Books a couple years back).
As disappointed as I am in WotC, I find this to be a hilariously over the top takeaway.Last year I'd thought that One D&D was a minor edition change that was functionally the next phase of D&D 5e.
With this OGL situation it seems clear 5e is dying and will be dead before the end of the year.
So much potential, never fully realized, now it's over, or soon to be over RIP 5e.