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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 4384458" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>I also don't really believe that there was a glut of d20 materials. More specifically, for a short time there was a vast (and somewhat confusing) number of d20 products (of varying quality) out there in the retail market, but these vastly shrunk over time, and long before 4E was announced they'd already dropped off sharply.</p><p></p><p>The reason that there seemed to be a large number of d20 products suddenly appearing was that the OGL was a sort of "blue ocean strategy" wherein it created a large new area for companies to release products in. Of course, it was incredibly popular, and skyrocketed as people rushed to make companies and put out products. In that sense, yes there were a lot of products out there.</p><p></p><p>However, that particular bubble began to shrink very quickly. Even if consumers hadn't slowed down after the initial surge, the move to 3.5 shook up the playing field very heavily. Further, the economy started to go into a spiral, meaning that people were buying even less anyway. Between the internal and external market forces, the d20 market was already rapidly equalizing anyway.</p><p></p><p>Now, several years later, that's even more true. 4E wouldn't have created a new "glut" because the market has largely already sorted itself out in that regard. People are no longer blindly rushing to buy anything compatible, companies are no longer springing up left and right to produce compatible material, and the economy has (if anything) gotten worse. Even if 4E had used the OGL, there'd have been no glut; just a minor upswing in compatible products produced that would have quickly equalized.</p><p></p><p>WotC making the incredibly restrictive and punitive GSL because they feared the glut strikes me as either being wrong, or WotC following some poor business advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 4384458, member: 8461"] I also don't really believe that there was a glut of d20 materials. More specifically, for a short time there was a vast (and somewhat confusing) number of d20 products (of varying quality) out there in the retail market, but these vastly shrunk over time, and long before 4E was announced they'd already dropped off sharply. The reason that there seemed to be a large number of d20 products suddenly appearing was that the OGL was a sort of "blue ocean strategy" wherein it created a large new area for companies to release products in. Of course, it was incredibly popular, and skyrocketed as people rushed to make companies and put out products. In that sense, yes there were a lot of products out there. However, that particular bubble began to shrink very quickly. Even if consumers hadn't slowed down after the initial surge, the move to 3.5 shook up the playing field very heavily. Further, the economy started to go into a spiral, meaning that people were buying even less anyway. Between the internal and external market forces, the d20 market was already rapidly equalizing anyway. Now, several years later, that's even more true. 4E wouldn't have created a new "glut" because the market has largely already sorted itself out in that regard. People are no longer blindly rushing to buy anything compatible, companies are no longer springing up left and right to produce compatible material, and the economy has (if anything) gotten worse. Even if 4E had used the OGL, there'd have been no glut; just a minor upswing in compatible products produced that would have quickly equalized. WotC making the incredibly restrictive and punitive GSL because they feared the glut strikes me as either being wrong, or WotC following some poor business advice. [/QUOTE]
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