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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8869823" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Absolutely they created it!</p><p></p><p>The idea that they didn't relies on pretending to be so pathetically naïve about both human nature and the internet that it defies belief, frankly.</p><p></p><p>Any adult human being of normal intelligence and who is reasonably worldly, not some Dickens-esque naïf knows perfectly well that, if you invite a bunch of people to "secret meetings" about an issue (the OGL in this case), after repeatedly dodging questions about the issue, you're going to create some significant concern, and that's not "entitlement", I mean for goodness sake!</p><p></p><p>Good lord lol. There's little worse that treating naivete as a virtue, rather than a form of ignorance, but one of the things that is worse is defending faux-naivete from a significant corporate entity who absolutely know better. The best you can say for WotC here is that this was probably a "whoopsie" moment rather than anything intentional (that's certainly my belief - as I stated before the statement was even issued, the handling of the whole situation seems like the result of a lot of people from MS and similar backgrounds making decisions about a very different product).</p><p></p><p>Merry Christmas! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8869823, member: 18"] Absolutely they created it! The idea that they didn't relies on pretending to be so pathetically naïve about both human nature and the internet that it defies belief, frankly. Any adult human being of normal intelligence and who is reasonably worldly, not some Dickens-esque naïf knows perfectly well that, if you invite a bunch of people to "secret meetings" about an issue (the OGL in this case), after repeatedly dodging questions about the issue, you're going to create some significant concern, and that's not "entitlement", I mean for goodness sake! Good lord lol. There's little worse that treating naivete as a virtue, rather than a form of ignorance, but one of the things that is worse is defending faux-naivete from a significant corporate entity who absolutely know better. The best you can say for WotC here is that this was probably a "whoopsie" moment rather than anything intentional (that's certainly my belief - as I stated before the statement was even issued, the handling of the whole situation seems like the result of a lot of people from MS and similar backgrounds making decisions about a very different product). Merry Christmas! ;) [/QUOTE]
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