This is fantastic news. They also said they will go to court over if WoTC try to “deauthorise” OGL 1.0a which is just epic.
Edit: The site went down lmao. Epic stuff.
Edit: BTW, Paizo is the company that also recognised their Union without requiring it to go to vote or hiring anti-union shitheads.
how incredibly pathetic to try to get between people enjoying pnprpgs and make money out of it, imagine looking at people making shit up at a table with friends and thinking "damn, how do i wet my beak here"
Well, what WotC is trying to do here is key to their expansion plans. The folks that run WotC right now previously worked for Amazon and Microsoft. They want to transfer tabletop gaming from its current revenue model to something much closer to a "live service" video game model. They want to move from selling a group of 5 people an average of 2-4 $50 books a year to a model of selling each of those people a $15 dollar a month subscription. Since they want to keep their new game backwards compatible, that means they prevent services that compete with their own online services from using both their new ruleset and previous ruleset (hence trying to revoke the current license). Otherwise, they can't charge as much as they'd like.
Yeah, instead of “pay once and own forever”, every capitalist wants you to “pay forever and own never”.
Rent-seeking in all forms
Capitalism is dead. Long live neofeudalism.
oh yeah, you're right, they're solving the "sorry i can't make tonight" game scheduling nightmare by just having all of us play from a patented fucking zoom call, but everyone beat them to the punch so they're trying to poison pill the OGL (from what i understood) to no longer cover stuff that isn't just a pdf (like online services), yeah brave plan, hope they choke; wotc didn't comment afaik because they haven't actually officially announced anything yet, but i hope this continues blowing up in their face
They were gonna livestream today but cancelled it last minute because of an unexpected leaked email and the subsequent massive cancellations of DNDBeyond subs.
What leaked Email?
There was a massive leaked email earlier today from an employee that said all the execs cared about is DNDBeyond subs and they considered the consumers just obstacles to be overcome to get their money. They also expected this to blow over by the weekend or something.
In response, the community decided en masse to delete their DNDBeyond subs leading to the site shutting down for a while. This is probably also the reason they cancelled the stream they had planned for today to explain the new OGL.
I made a post.
:think-about-it: ah the old 'can't break up with me if I unplug my telephone' move
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. :unlimited-power:
Oh, so they're suicidal.
They tried exactly this with 4E, and failed to ever get a virtual tabletop system off the ground.
Also I was in the job market at the time, and they were offering about a fourth as much as the going rate for the tech skills they wanted. This might have something to do with the failure.