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<blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5881501" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>Yup, I believe most people would agree with us but it gives context to our further conjecture, I think. I'm going to take the rest of your post somewhat out of order.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was more hoping that the results of that would give them a better perspective, but the lack of an OGL announcement yet makes me skeptical they have learned what I feel I know, and what I think many companies including Paizo have discovered about the benefits of the OGL moving forward.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think this conflates things that aren't as closely related as it seems. What WotC did, by moving away from the OGL and creating 4.XE, might have very little to do with folks who picked up PF as opposed to not moving away from 3.XE. We might just as likely have found that, as with folks who never moved on from 1E or 2E, that the same folks who didn't move to 4.XE just stuck with 3.XE were there no Paizo on the scene, or even would have moved on to a different Paizo game with no OGL on the scene.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not convinced of that just yet. I think they are stumbling about whether to include any licensing or not but I also think that, if they go with any licensing at all, they will compare the results of using a GSL to that of using an OGL and find the latter more beneficial. It's not like the OGL will go away if they don't use it. If WotC doesn't use it and Paizo develops their own "Next" edition when PF begins to wane, and if Paizo makes their next edition OGL, WotC will likely be losing even more customers through their continued inaction on the OGL front. I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to explain to Hasbro how the D&D brand slipped even further than just losing a few quarters to a company full of their former employees who then came up with a whole new game on their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark CMG, post: 5881501, member: 10479"] Yup, I believe most people would agree with us but it gives context to our further conjecture, I think. I'm going to take the rest of your post somewhat out of order. I was more hoping that the results of that would give them a better perspective, but the lack of an OGL announcement yet makes me skeptical they have learned what I feel I know, and what I think many companies including Paizo have discovered about the benefits of the OGL moving forward. I think this conflates things that aren't as closely related as it seems. What WotC did, by moving away from the OGL and creating 4.XE, might have very little to do with folks who picked up PF as opposed to not moving away from 3.XE. We might just as likely have found that, as with folks who never moved on from 1E or 2E, that the same folks who didn't move to 4.XE just stuck with 3.XE were there no Paizo on the scene, or even would have moved on to a different Paizo game with no OGL on the scene. I'm not convinced of that just yet. I think they are stumbling about whether to include any licensing or not but I also think that, if they go with any licensing at all, they will compare the results of using a GSL to that of using an OGL and find the latter more beneficial. It's not like the OGL will go away if they don't use it. If WotC doesn't use it and Paizo develops their own "Next" edition when PF begins to wane, and if Paizo makes their next edition OGL, WotC will likely be losing even more customers through their continued inaction on the OGL front. I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to explain to Hasbro how the D&D brand slipped even further than just losing a few quarters to a company full of their former employees who then came up with a whole new game on their own. [/QUOTE]
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