I'm so tired of hearing of your rights or developer rights and company issues. DND is about immersion and fun. Focus on that and profits follow. PS: Communicate with your 'OGL' audience (your free go to market and brand development arms) directly and quietly. Thanks for listening.
I'm so tired of hearing of your rights or developer rights and company issues. DND is about immersion and fun. Focus on that and profits follow. PS: Communicate with your 'OGL' audience (your free go to market and brand development arms) directly and quietly. Thanks for listening.
Gosh, it's almost like that's what they were doing until someone leaked a sliver of those direct, quiet communications and people lost their damn minds
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
This whole OGL fiasco happened precisely because Wizards was doing exactly what you want them to do - they were engaged in “direct and quiet” conversations with major third party producers which leaked to the public. Once made public, things blew up, forcing Wizards’ (seemingly fairly ineffective and slow-to-draw) PR team to focus on the issue dominating conversation. That is how PR works—when something is on fire, you don’t try to hype a new product as the light of the PR dumpster fire will outshine the candle of your new product.
It also does not mean they are not working on new products - PR is a different team from development, and a PR disaster doesn’t mean the development team is stopping their work.
And, just as a final thought, this entire thread is rendered a bit moot by the fact Wizards just announced preorders of their next book and released a free adventure for Beyond users—so, not only were they doing what you wanted them to do with being “direct and quiet” now they are doing what you wanted moving forward, focusing again on the “fun”.
I'm so tired of hearing of your rights or developer rights and company issues. DND is about immersion and fun. Focus on that and profits follow. PS: Communicate with your 'OGL' audience (your free go to market and brand development arms) directly and quietly. Thanks for listening.
Molon Labe, Lord Low
Gosh, it's almost like that's what they were doing until someone leaked a sliver of those direct, quiet communications and people lost their damn minds
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
This whole OGL fiasco happened precisely because Wizards was doing exactly what you want them to do - they were engaged in “direct and quiet” conversations with major third party producers which leaked to the public. Once made public, things blew up, forcing Wizards’ (seemingly fairly ineffective and slow-to-draw) PR team to focus on the issue dominating conversation. That is how PR works—when something is on fire, you don’t try to hype a new product as the light of the PR dumpster fire will outshine the candle of your new product.
It also does not mean they are not working on new products - PR is a different team from development, and a PR disaster doesn’t mean the development team is stopping their work.
And, just as a final thought, this entire thread is rendered a bit moot by the fact Wizards just announced preorders of their next book and released a free adventure for Beyond users—so, not only were they doing what you wanted them to do with being “direct and quiet” now they are doing what you wanted moving forward, focusing again on the “fun”.
I'm exercising my right to feedback as a customer. Thank you for yours.
Molon Labe, Lord Low