The Business: As Predicted, They're Trying To Jump In Front Again

Go figure, as soon as the Bros prove beyond a doubt that they're right about something here comes the Soup Aisle to steal credit and say it's theirs.

"Oh hey, you should totally play in a regional map with lots of factions and things to see and do."

Notice that Tenkar left out Braunstein, that he's still being a Merchantfag shilling for product, and presumes that the Cargo Cult has a future?

Meanwhile Wizards of the Coast, by proceding with the Walled Garden, is cutting off their Prospect Acquisition Funnel because none of these retards bothers to do any work to get and funnel prospects on their own and don't even think to try. Every last one of them parasites off of WOTC's marketing and advertising campaigns. EVERY! LAST! ONE!

Going digital-primary, rooting on Beyond, going full Walled Garden- this cuts that parasitism off by freezing them out of the Network Effect that they've benefited from for so long that they forgot how to justify their own existence to anyone else.

Meanwhile they're stll trying to do the Gamma Male thing where they jump in front of the parade, steal credit for all the cultural recovery, and then steer it all back into the Soup Aisle Cult Cell Basement.

They wouldn't do this if the Bros weren't effective. They're being crushed from above by WOTC, and crushed from below by the Bros. They still think that their Calvinball non-game cult cells playing in the basement is the real hobby and then wonder why private MMO servers rook them without noticing their existence. Like Commies, they can't think outside their own paradigm, but they can sense when something threatens it when they hear it; they try to steal from those they think they can cheat, and go full-tilt bozo in delusion to cope with those they can't.