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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 8917844" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>I'll be blunt: the issue here is going to be how much we want to fight for the right of very specific 3pp, digital content creators, to make <em>Dungeons and Dragons</em> content that could compete with WotC's own. That's really where Hasbro are drawing their line in the sand (that and possibly media content as well). They are basically saying, "Look, we let <em>Pathfinder</em> happen once, and we were lucky to get away with it. We do not want the same thing to happen again where someone is using our own IP to compete against us in the digital space."</p><p></p><p>OB1 has argued that the way out is for WotC to pull a 4e and just abandon 5e to 3PP. I don't see WotC doing that because the last time they tried something very like that, <em>Pathfinder</em> happened.</p><p></p><p>WotC's stance with OneD&D is "we've created a version of the game that is extraordinarily popular. We've cracked the code. We'll concede sharing 5e in the print space if we have to, because of a deal that we made 20 years ago that our current executives really wish hadn't happened. It turns out getting rid of it for all the little books and spin-off games 3PP make isn't worth the backlash. But we'll be damed if we are abandoning 5e, or sharing it at anything more than a basic level in the digital areas that we have identified to our shareholders as vital to the survival of Hasbro as a whole."</p><p></p><p>That's the fight. Most 3PP are potentially collateral damage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 8917844, member: 7035894"] I'll be blunt: the issue here is going to be how much we want to fight for the right of very specific 3pp, digital content creators, to make [I]Dungeons and Dragons[/I] content that could compete with WotC's own. That's really where Hasbro are drawing their line in the sand (that and possibly media content as well). They are basically saying, "Look, we let [I]Pathfinder[/I] happen once, and we were lucky to get away with it. We do not want the same thing to happen again where someone is using our own IP to compete against us in the digital space." OB1 has argued that the way out is for WotC to pull a 4e and just abandon 5e to 3PP. I don't see WotC doing that because the last time they tried something very like that, [I]Pathfinder[/I] happened. WotC's stance with OneD&D is "we've created a version of the game that is extraordinarily popular. We've cracked the code. We'll concede sharing 5e in the print space if we have to, because of a deal that we made 20 years ago that our current executives really wish hadn't happened. It turns out getting rid of it for all the little books and spin-off games 3PP make isn't worth the backlash. But we'll be damed if we are abandoning 5e, or sharing it at anything more than a basic level in the digital areas that we have identified to our shareholders as vital to the survival of Hasbro as a whole." That's the fight. Most 3PP are potentially collateral damage. [/QUOTE]
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