The Business: The Professor Admits The Inevitable

The Professor confirms what was already reported.

Digital Primary development and publishing; print depreciation, focusing on the online Walled Garden.

Move to a Seasonal mode of business, straight out of the Live Service playbook, and drive the majority of players to the Walled Garden and increasing the friction for not using it will succeed; this is why the Professor's own offering is Dead On Arrival.

The Copium that this will lead to an indie resurgence?

LOL. LMAO. They will NOT be played. That's been said repeatedly every time WOTC, and TSR before that, fucked up for 50 years. It never happened. Their own internal records and data showed it in 1999, and that initial survey's been proven correct every year since.

C-Suite got the memo at last, and the Cargo Cult is coping with the consequences. It's WOW or the Clubhouse, you delusional fuckwits.

And the Normies already chose WOW. They'll do it again in a heartbeat.