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<blockquote data-quote="EpicureanDM" data-source="post: 8832524" data-attributes="member: 6996003"><p>All of the executives in charge of D&D are tech company MBA types or video game producers. None of them have any experience in the book publishing industry, let alone with D&D or the TRPG industry. They are wholly ignorant about game design and have little interest in it. Every contributor to this thread has a greater interest in D&D as a game than they do. (I doubt that the executives in charge of D&D even know about this website.)</p><p></p><p>This OGL stuff reeks of MBAs who have no idea of the history of the game they're in charge of squeezing money from. Every veteran OGL publisher knows the legal realities and nuances that Morrus wrote up. The OGL's relative invulnerability to recision or shenanigans from WotC's end have been understood for more than a decade in the industry. Everyone knows what a PR shitshow it would be for WotC to naughty word with the OGL and the publishers that use it. </p><p></p><p>Everyone except the D&D executives, it seems. They don't know this stuff about the OGL because (a) they're not gamers and TRPGs aren't part of their lives or interests, (b) they haven't got anyone internally on the D&D team who could talk to them about how trying to mess with the OGL is both difficult and historically pilloried, and (c) they believe that restricting the 6e OGL will boost their business, when it's likely to depress it. </p><p></p><p>For WotC to try and throw its weight around to strong-arm its third-party publishers is lunacy to everyone who frequents this message board because everyone here as a closer relationship to the game and it's history than the D&D executives. Those executives are MBAs and video game producers. This sort of a move to build a walled garden and force everyone inside makes perfect sense to them. But it's a fundamental misreading of the D&D market, which is a very bizarre little corner of the book publishing world. </p><p></p><p>Someone leaked this information (or "started the rumor"). Do you think it was WotC? Hell, no. It was probably some third-party publisher who learned something from WotC somehow. It makes total sense that WotC will restrict the 6e OGL as much as they can. D&D's current executives don't look back to the halcyon days of Lake Geneva, 1978 and the company run out of an old house. They come from places like Amazon and they bring Amazon's instincts with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EpicureanDM, post: 8832524, member: 6996003"] All of the executives in charge of D&D are tech company MBA types or video game producers. None of them have any experience in the book publishing industry, let alone with D&D or the TRPG industry. They are wholly ignorant about game design and have little interest in it. Every contributor to this thread has a greater interest in D&D as a game than they do. (I doubt that the executives in charge of D&D even know about this website.) This OGL stuff reeks of MBAs who have no idea of the history of the game they're in charge of squeezing money from. Every veteran OGL publisher knows the legal realities and nuances that Morrus wrote up. The OGL's relative invulnerability to recision or shenanigans from WotC's end have been understood for more than a decade in the industry. Everyone knows what a PR shitshow it would be for WotC to naughty word with the OGL and the publishers that use it. Everyone except the D&D executives, it seems. They don't know this stuff about the OGL because (a) they're not gamers and TRPGs aren't part of their lives or interests, (b) they haven't got anyone internally on the D&D team who could talk to them about how trying to mess with the OGL is both difficult and historically pilloried, and (c) they believe that restricting the 6e OGL will boost their business, when it's likely to depress it. For WotC to try and throw its weight around to strong-arm its third-party publishers is lunacy to everyone who frequents this message board because everyone here as a closer relationship to the game and it's history than the D&D executives. Those executives are MBAs and video game producers. This sort of a move to build a walled garden and force everyone inside makes perfect sense to them. But it's a fundamental misreading of the D&D market, which is a very bizarre little corner of the book publishing world. Someone leaked this information (or "started the rumor"). Do you think it was WotC? Hell, no. It was probably some third-party publisher who learned something from WotC somehow. It makes total sense that WotC will restrict the 6e OGL as much as they can. D&D's current executives don't look back to the halcyon days of Lake Geneva, 1978 and the company run out of an old house. They come from places like Amazon and they bring Amazon's instincts with them. [/QUOTE]
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