so basically Wizards is the only thing that makes money for Hasbro anymore since nobody is playing Monopoly or doing puzzles. So Hasbro is basically making WOTC a full on division of the company sort of like what Activision did with Blizzard (and if you are a g*mer you probably know how that ended).
here comes more digital releases, tighter release schedules, and the end of customer-friendly copyright permissions. we're about to get all the shitty parts of TSR without even a Spelljammer book. This probably has something to do with why the owners of D&D Beyond all jumped ship a few weeks ago.
Yeah well at least with RPGs the ground floor for creating a new system is a lot easier to get on than a video game studio.
Not saying labor-wise, but a word document is way cheaper than a game studio.
If DnD starts to suck people will jump ship, a lot did in 4e and they'll do it again.
Isn't that the whole reason Pathfinder exists?
That's part of it, also the OGL for 3rd edition that Pathfinder was born under was a lot more "open" than what came after with 4th and 5th edition, at least that's what I remember. It's been a while though