Indeed. I wish some thinking head at Wizards actually understood they have a PNP playerbase of creative people that wants to build without restrictions, by the very nature of the product they sell, D&D. (...) Instead they burn money into pieces of shit like SCL.
I feel like Wizards is mistreating the game, and misusing its potential. Probably the times have changed and D&D will be nowhere near as popular as in the 80s. But it can still be a somewhat profitable business. Since it's plain stupid to sell dozens of books with more player options (it gets old very soon), they could expand to the digital world, and to D&D fans with a PC, much like the maneouver from White Wolf to let Paradox exploit their product line. Ultimately, remember that Wizards belongs as a brand to Hasbro, real money grabbers, and I think they are hoping for the next MTG, but both businesses are really apart. Maybe it's even time for Wizards to relinquish D&D as a product, and pass it to someone else.
Yeah, more or less the problem is that. D&D is a profitable and nice niche product, but for a megabillion company like WotC/Hasbro, it is an uncomfortable franchise that works by strange rules they don't know how to predict. Trying to make D&D reach millions and earn billions, is a lost cause that will only destroy the brand; then put it in the hands of people that will be satisfied with much smaller scale of business.