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[UPDATED] DM's Guild No Longer Allows Creator Logos On Product Covers
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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 7733586" data-attributes="member: 1620"><p>Possible conversations at WotC:</p><p></p><p>"We need to cut down on legal costs related to DnD. What can we do? Hey, let's prevent 3pp from putting their logos on their covers! That way we don't spend time and money policing them! Great idea. Solved!"</p><p></p><p>versus</p><p></p><p>"We lost a lot of money with the OGL because our brand spun out of our control. This is why, despite being perpetual, we retracted use of the d2o brand. We gave rise to our brand's biggest competition from a company that didn't even exist until our DnD open license allowed them to exist. They trashed our market shares with our fourth edition, on the back of our own brand no less, and are still giving us a run for our money with this one. Let's make sure that doesn't happen again."</p><p></p><p>But, yeah. Sure.</p><p></p><p>It's all about the complications of having to oversee 3pp logos on covers. You know, a problem that hasn't actually reared its head yet, in this iteration or going back nearly 20 years to when the OGL was released.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Conan Trustrum, post: 7733586, member: 1620"] Possible conversations at WotC: "We need to cut down on legal costs related to DnD. What can we do? Hey, let's prevent 3pp from putting their logos on their covers! That way we don't spend time and money policing them! Great idea. Solved!" versus "We lost a lot of money with the OGL because our brand spun out of our control. This is why, despite being perpetual, we retracted use of the d2o brand. We gave rise to our brand's biggest competition from a company that didn't even exist until our DnD open license allowed them to exist. They trashed our market shares with our fourth edition, on the back of our own brand no less, and are still giving us a run for our money with this one. Let's make sure that doesn't happen again." But, yeah. Sure. It's all about the complications of having to oversee 3pp logos on covers. You know, a problem that hasn't actually reared its head yet, in this iteration or going back nearly 20 years to when the OGL was released. [/QUOTE]
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