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<blockquote data-quote="primarchone" data-source="post: 4634719" data-attributes="member: 26826"><p>Hi!</p><p></p><p>The golden question has always been if WOTC made money off the OGL.</p><p></p><p>You'll see a lot of speculation on this, but no official word.</p><p></p><p>My suspicion is that it didn't. I base that on 4e being GSL and much more closed in comparison to OGL. If OGL had been some sort of cash cow, it would not have been scrapped.</p><p></p><p>Corporations do all sort of weird things (to us non-corporate people anyway). But one thing you can always count them to do without fail is that which generates money. In my view the powers that be within WOTC decided that OGL didn't impact their bottom line and thus was changed.</p><p></p><p>I agree that the GSL, at this point is moot. Whatever sales expectations WOTC have for 4e are probably being met. Note that WOTC doesn't care or particularly benefit from a market full of competing product.</p><p></p><p>As things stand now, its actually quite a good situation for them. The majority of whats out there for 4e is their own stuff, so its far easier for them to hit a sales expectation than a market crowded with many more non wizards products. Thus GSL is low priority.</p><p></p><p>Some may view this as bad for the "hobby". But that's irrelevant to WOTC's bottom line. They'll take a much tighter market with fewer variety of products for consumers in which their products can make even better use of their already huge market presence advantage.</p><p></p><p>Primarchone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="primarchone, post: 4634719, member: 26826"] Hi! The golden question has always been if WOTC made money off the OGL. You'll see a lot of speculation on this, but no official word. My suspicion is that it didn't. I base that on 4e being GSL and much more closed in comparison to OGL. If OGL had been some sort of cash cow, it would not have been scrapped. Corporations do all sort of weird things (to us non-corporate people anyway). But one thing you can always count them to do without fail is that which generates money. In my view the powers that be within WOTC decided that OGL didn't impact their bottom line and thus was changed. I agree that the GSL, at this point is moot. Whatever sales expectations WOTC have for 4e are probably being met. Note that WOTC doesn't care or particularly benefit from a market full of competing product. As things stand now, its actually quite a good situation for them. The majority of whats out there for 4e is their own stuff, so its far easier for them to hit a sales expectation than a market crowded with many more non wizards products. Thus GSL is low priority. Some may view this as bad for the "hobby". But that's irrelevant to WOTC's bottom line. They'll take a much tighter market with fewer variety of products for consumers in which their products can make even better use of their already huge market presence advantage. Primarchone [/QUOTE]
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