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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9859169" data-attributes="member: 58416">My perception is that WotC/Hasbro enjoy the benefit of a leniency from the community that would not be extended to other companies for doing even one of thing things people have claimed be upset about online.Some of that comes from brand identity. At a certain point, people become accustomed to buying a particular label. So, there's some amount of moral inertia.Realistically, there are also things that WotC can sell (like their mini line) that a smaller company likely can't offer. So, there is a risk/reward tradeoff for taking a moral stand that I imagine people weigh. For many people, it's easier to boycott a company when it's one that they already weren't buying from. People find doing that more difficult when there is a personal interest in the product of a company. I don't think anyone "won" the OGL fight. I believe that it is a good thing that WotC has been restructured to (supposedly) allow the brand to be managed better. As per past discussions here on ENWorld -which included people part of the old structure- there was little communication and essentially no collaboration between the various departments under the old structure. So, maybe the company has managed to fail forward. If there is a "win" for the community that comes out of OGL, I haven't yet seen it. I don't really think a whole lot has changed. As I said earlier, I mostly just don't understand how so much positive momentum for the brand was allowed to wither away without much of anything being done with it.</blockquote>

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