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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7733643" data-attributes="member: 2525">WOTC has directly licensed out their IP to several third party companies under 5e, like they did with Paizo, allowing them to use both the WOTC and their own company logos on the cover. Any of those companies could become the next Paizo.  Your point has nothing to do with DMs Guild. The next Paizo was never going to come from DMs Guild with or without their own logo on the cover (though perhaps some good individual authors will be found there for a next Paizo to hire later). If there is a next Paizo, it will likely come from the same path - hardcopy officially sanctioned published D&D books carried in all retail stores and on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and promoted by WOTC with their marketing efforts combined with the efforts of the third party in question. Only these days it will probably have videos of the game being played which become widely popular, on YouTube or elsewhere. You're looking for reasons to deride this decision but most of your reasons are exaggerated stretches which don't really make the point you're trying to make. I can understand (vaguely) not liking this decision, but exaggerating the impact is having the opposite effect to the one you intended. It's not persuasive.</blockquote>