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Shadow-Bolt posted...

Let's be clear, here. By all rights WOTC would be entitled to a share of royalties on A LOT of products if it hadn't been for the OGL explicitly saying creators would not need to pay.

Arguably, they wouldn't have. Because without the OGL those products would likely still have been released, but would have either been purely system-agnostic, or utilized proprietary systems of their own. Which is literally how the industry worked for decades before the OGL.

All the OGL really did was cement the d20 ruleset as the industry default (which benefited WotC/D&D), and encouraged creators to work within the D&D system rather than create rivals to it (which benefited WotC/D&D).



Ubergeneral3 posted...

WoC has been a sinking ship for a while. Magic isn't doing that hot either so this isn't surprising.

And in both cases, it's for the same reason. Execs higher up in Hasbro who don't actually understand anything WotC does went "It's cool that you're making us lots of money, but now we want you to make us all of the money." To which the fanbase for their products replied with "Now you will make none of the money."

Hasbro wants to overmonetize WotC products in the same way that developers are ruining the video game industry with microtransactions and live-service bullshit. But the end result is that WotC is going to eat a metric ton of shit and the recent D&D boom is likely going to die off exactly the same way it did the last time corporate bullshit ruined it (and straight up killed TSR).