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<blockquote data-quote="xiphumor" data-source="post: 8911706" data-attributes="member: 7033055"><p>So if D&D Shorts most recent video is to be believed, Cao was indirectly responsible for WotC’s purchase of D&D Beyond because of how strongly he advocated for the digital future of D&D. However, he actually didn’t want D&D Beyond, and already had a separate team working on the new VTT, and has been advocating for destroying it.</p><p></p><p>So my takeaways are as follows:</p><p></p><p>1. WotC executives are of the same mind as Cao, but don’t care so much about his exact vision to be taking his instructions as to how to achieve that goal.</p><p></p><p>2. They’ve already sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into the digital platform, which is their main motive for deauthorizing 1.0a, and will try to make good on their investment, with or without Cao.</p><p></p><p>Firing Cao may feel right from the perspective of punitive justice (which I think there is a place for, but it should be a top-down movement as the board realizes his idea was bad), but it’s not going to solve the problem. Also, I’m worried that WotC might try something like that as a way of placating the fans and distracting from the larger issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xiphumor, post: 8911706, member: 7033055"] So if D&D Shorts most recent video is to be believed, Cao was indirectly responsible for WotC’s purchase of D&D Beyond because of how strongly he advocated for the digital future of D&D. However, he actually didn’t want D&D Beyond, and already had a separate team working on the new VTT, and has been advocating for destroying it. So my takeaways are as follows: 1. WotC executives are of the same mind as Cao, but don’t care so much about his exact vision to be taking his instructions as to how to achieve that goal. 2. They’ve already sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into the digital platform, which is their main motive for deauthorizing 1.0a, and will try to make good on their investment, with or without Cao. Firing Cao may feel right from the perspective of punitive justice (which I think there is a place for, but it should be a top-down movement as the board realizes his idea was bad), but it’s not going to solve the problem. Also, I’m worried that WotC might try something like that as a way of placating the fans and distracting from the larger issue. [/QUOTE]
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