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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6744620" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>You have to wonder just how much Ryan Dancey is cursed within the halls of WotC/Hasbro, as that guy that tricked a corporation into giving away its product free to its customers. Just how much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the OGL would you actually hear if you had a secret microphone some place. I'd guess at this point many attribute to Ryan not merely ulterior motives (which he admits he and others behind the OGL had), but unscrupulous ones as well. </p><p></p><p>Again, I believe that the suits are wrong, and that the OGL was a huge boost to WotC revenue and helped not only revive the brand, but boost it to again having a dominate position in the market. But I can at the same time sympathize with their confusion and dismay, because the OGL strategy is hardly a traditional one.</p><p></p><p>Nonetheless, I think that the success of Pathfinder itself proves me right. After all, Pathfinder - being published under the OGL - is itself also an open game which means that like D&D 3.X before it, Pathfinder must also be given over to its fans for free and cannot be taken from them either. The Pathfinder System Reference Document is inherently even more open and complete than the one WotC provided, and yet Paizo continues to have profits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6744620, member: 4937"] You have to wonder just how much Ryan Dancey is cursed within the halls of WotC/Hasbro, as that guy that tricked a corporation into giving away its product free to its customers. Just how much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the OGL would you actually hear if you had a secret microphone some place. I'd guess at this point many attribute to Ryan not merely ulterior motives (which he admits he and others behind the OGL had), but unscrupulous ones as well. Again, I believe that the suits are wrong, and that the OGL was a huge boost to WotC revenue and helped not only revive the brand, but boost it to again having a dominate position in the market. But I can at the same time sympathize with their confusion and dismay, because the OGL strategy is hardly a traditional one. Nonetheless, I think that the success of Pathfinder itself proves me right. After all, Pathfinder - being published under the OGL - is itself also an open game which means that like D&D 3.X before it, Pathfinder must also be given over to its fans for free and cannot be taken from them either. The Pathfinder System Reference Document is inherently even more open and complete than the one WotC provided, and yet Paizo continues to have profits. [/QUOTE]
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