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<blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 6371157" data-attributes="member: 40810"><p>I agree. But since the particular economic body is not in it to satisfy some idealistic goal but solely for it's own economic result, why should they chose a course that may strengthen the game and it's culture but is bad for themselves? </p><p> I do.</p><p> Yet why should WotC care about that? Or follow a course that even might create a "second Paizo"? They are in for their own financial gain and if they fail they have no reason to care whether the game dies with them or someone else picks up the torch</p><p> It's my reading between the lines from their later interviews. They tricked "the suits" into believing the OGL was a good thing that would boost profits, when in truth the only cared about "saving D&D for the gamers". </p><p>It was also true for WotC. The various FR splatbooks were always under fire by "the suits" because their low number of sales compared to core splat books. And that was while WotC only had two settings out at the time and FR was the best selling of them and yet the splat books were always unter threat of being stopped (see the essay from Sean K. Reynolds).</p><p> And why would you expect that the shareholders of the econimic entity should just "take one for the team" and have said entity follow a course contrary to their own financial gain just to strengthen the D&D and TRPG culture?</p><p> Why would a company ever follow that values? That's diametrical opposed from wanting to succeed as a company. That's how a non proft organization might behave, but not a company.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mirtek, post: 6371157, member: 40810"] I agree. But since the particular economic body is not in it to satisfy some idealistic goal but solely for it's own economic result, why should they chose a course that may strengthen the game and it's culture but is bad for themselves? I do. Yet why should WotC care about that? Or follow a course that even might create a "second Paizo"? They are in for their own financial gain and if they fail they have no reason to care whether the game dies with them or someone else picks up the torch It's my reading between the lines from their later interviews. They tricked "the suits" into believing the OGL was a good thing that would boost profits, when in truth the only cared about "saving D&D for the gamers". It was also true for WotC. The various FR splatbooks were always under fire by "the suits" because their low number of sales compared to core splat books. And that was while WotC only had two settings out at the time and FR was the best selling of them and yet the splat books were always unter threat of being stopped (see the essay from Sean K. Reynolds). And why would you expect that the shareholders of the econimic entity should just "take one for the team" and have said entity follow a course contrary to their own financial gain just to strengthen the D&D and TRPG culture? Why would a company ever follow that values? That's diametrical opposed from wanting to succeed as a company. That's how a non proft organization might behave, but not a company. [/QUOTE]
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