I'm not "simping". The 1.1 OGL was terrible and WotC should never have even thought of publishing it. And I'm not telling people that they have to buy WotC products. I just think that the way that a lot of the community is reacting to the recent announcements is both short-sighted and slightly immature.Why are you simping for Wizards? They don't care about you other than extracting as much money as they can from you.
"I will not give money to people who make my life worse if I can avoid doing so" is not a position I would associate with immaturity. It has the long-term effect of reducing the power of the people who make your life worse while allowing you to spend that money elsewhere.I'm not "simping". The 1.1 OGL was terrible and WotC should never have even thought of publishing it. And I'm not telling people that they have to buy WotC products. I just think that the way that a lot of the community is reacting to the recent announcements is both short-sighted and slightly immature.
Losing your livelihood and getting mad about it isn't being immature. Things will be better with the new open source systems being developed. Wizards can't be trusted any longer.
Most of the people I've seen say "I'm never giving WotC a penny again" are not 3rd party publishers. From what I've seen on this site and others (Reddit and D&D Beyond), a lot of the people saying "I'm boycotting WotC forever" are people that already have a vendetta against WotC from some "sin" they committed a decade or two ago, or already weren't buying 5e stuff anymore. Definitely not all of the people, but from what I've seen, it's definitely a lot. And a lot of them are gloating about "how they told us so". That's immature."I will not give money to people who make my life worse if I can avoid doing so" is not a position I would associate with immaturity. It has the long-term effect of reducing the power of the people who make your life worse while allowing you to spend that money elsewhere.
But it's working. They walked back a lot of the bad stuff from the OGL 1.1. If we want them to keep it up until all of the bad is gone, they need an incentive. Telling people to abandon WotC D&D forever disincentives that. It hurts the goal of getting rid of the rest of the bad stuff.
Blanket judging people is not associated with maturity, nor is making a whole bunch of additional assertions of their character and nature based on thin information. We are individuals, not some stereotypical hivemind Other.Most of the people I've seen say "I'm never giving WotC a penny again" are not 3rd party publishers. From what I've seen on this site and others (Reddit and D&D Beyond), a lot of the people saying "I'm boycotting WotC forever" are people that already have a vendetta against WotC from some "sin" they committed a decade or two ago, or already weren't buying 5e stuff anymore. Definitely not all of the people, but from what I've seen, it's definitely a lot. And a lot of them are gloating about "how they told us so". That's immature.
And it's folly to trust a corporation. Corporations and other companies are not deserving of trust. They're not people and change whenever the leadership changes. Things changed for the worse, and they could change for the better. I don't "trust" corporations to do anything except try to make more money. Not defending their actions, but personifying corporations or having parasocial relationships with them is unhealthy. Boycott them to achieve something. The people on this site that already hated WotC because of 4e or Tasha's or whatever petty thing they did/published and are now gloating about it are acting immaturely and diverting the conversation away from what it should be about: how this could still impact 3rd party publishers and how to fix that/convince WotC to make even more changes to the planned OGL.
I don't think that would have happened.No. They broke the trust so badly and tried to put everyone out of business but them. I'll will never go back. They don't deserve my money ever again