[anakha]

WotC CEO and president Cynthia Williams was on the record as saying that the DnD brand is under monetized. https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/news...

Hasbro CEO, also the former WoTC CEO, has ramped up monetization of the Magic the Gathering brand significantly in recent years, partly at the expense of cashing in on the secondary market.

WoTC choking the OGL is consistent with them looking to pump up their profits.

[phaedryx]

I used to play MtG back in the early 90's, but got out because I needed money for college books, not cards.

My son got interested recently through some friends and I started looking about getting him into it around the time WotC released the $1000 old-school proxy packs. Needless to say, it turned me off.

[hinkley]

It’s not like TSR were the good guys either. I wrote off DnD until CR precisely because it has a reputation of being owned by assholes. They just slowed down for a while but here we are again

[wolverine876]

Habro is being pressured by outside investors to increase revenue from their Wizards division or spin it off.