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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9443328" data-attributes="member: 7006">Wizards management do things to start with that they think will produce their most beneficial results (in this case, more people buying the 5E24 books in DDB).  Oftentimes those things go by without incident (other than a small handful of people griping, which happens withe everything and are easily ignorable).  But on the few times where the complaints are loud enough and large enough (OGL, this DDB thing)... they will backtrack.  Because why not?  What skin is it off WotC's nose? If it's that big a deal for a lot of players, there's nothing wrong with just throwing them a bone.But here's the thing... as is always the case, a huge percentage of players just don't care about any of this stuff.  They buy what they want, they use what they want, and the inner working and policies of the company just goes right on by.  So there's no real reason why WotC feels like they can't make these changes under the assumption that they probably will work out fine and they'll earn more money out of it.  And if it doesn't work occasionally?  They'll just revert back and it won't actually matter.  Because most people never cared, and the ones that did either just continue to go along with the game anyway because they want to play it... or they "leave" the game, play some other game instead, but at the same time just can't seem to stop talking about the game and thus generating advertising for the roleplaying game business (and Dungeons & Dragons as the major part of it).  And when it comes to fandom and the advertising of it to the outside "normal" world, there's no bad press.  Because any "bad press" is usually seen (rightly, in many cases) as a select group of nerds getting way too bent out of shape over some inane perceived slight.  Something like the OGL or this DDB thing will just roll right on past and not cause any major issues for anyone at WotC down the road more often than not.</blockquote>

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