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<blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 6290981" data-attributes="member: 23935"><p>It's possible, but I would doubt that direction. The main problem is licensee's products almost certainly will be incompatible with Next's game engine (the GSL restricts game term definitions to those published in 4e, for example). Bundling 4e products with Next would lead to market confusion and annoyed customers. </p><p></p><p>If they are concerned with 4e licensees their best approach is to update the terms of the GSL to prevent new licensees and negate WotC's business process requirements. Having dealt with larger companies, that is a lot of internal work so I don't hold out much hope they choose that route. They may, if they feel responsible or feel there will be serious PR implications, but I don't think that would be too likely. More likely, those affected would be something between annoyed and devastated, but the market at large would shrug and say "that is what happens when dealing with licensed products".</p><p></p><p>*edit*</p><p>One simple approach would be to change to license to prevent new licensees and not touch anything else for a year or so while giving a general timeline for when current licenses will be revoked. Limited work on WotC's end and limited disruption to the current licensees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nagol, post: 6290981, member: 23935"] It's possible, but I would doubt that direction. The main problem is licensee's products almost certainly will be incompatible with Next's game engine (the GSL restricts game term definitions to those published in 4e, for example). Bundling 4e products with Next would lead to market confusion and annoyed customers. If they are concerned with 4e licensees their best approach is to update the terms of the GSL to prevent new licensees and negate WotC's business process requirements. Having dealt with larger companies, that is a lot of internal work so I don't hold out much hope they choose that route. They may, if they feel responsible or feel there will be serious PR implications, but I don't think that would be too likely. More likely, those affected would be something between annoyed and devastated, but the market at large would shrug and say "that is what happens when dealing with licensed products". *edit* One simple approach would be to change to license to prevent new licensees and not touch anything else for a year or so while giving a general timeline for when current licenses will be revoked. Limited work on WotC's end and limited disruption to the current licensees. [/QUOTE]
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