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.
Yeah, in all likelihood they maybe already signed the new OGL. Who knows.
The new OGL isn't officially out yet, and Critical Role will almost certainly be offered a better, separate licensing agreement, which they may or may not accept. New OGL will likely be used as a threat to increase their bargaining power for agreements that are actually legally enforceable.
The OGL got leaked because it was shared with multiple companies and some of them said nah. Given the favourable terms kickstarter has in it already, it’s a given they that kickstarter got a deal for that. This isn’t just some first draft circulating among some employees. This was probably literally the official one, or very close to it.
CR did probably get a better deal. Which is why they’re quiet. They don’t want to seem like allies of WOTC even if that’s what they are.
Matt Mercer did like a tweet saying that old OGL is good. I suspect that they have their own legal stuff as WotC has published them before and DnD Beyond does sponsor them. They also have been publishing their own books and seem to have been trying to distance themselves from DnD lore. I suspect it is just some nasty behind the scenes stuff. I won't be surprised either way.