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<blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 7683155" data-attributes="member: 40810"><p>Money. That's the reason. Up to 4e D&D was available in a lot of different languages. They all stoped during 4e after the first few books.</p><p></p><p>At least for the German edition it is known that it was nothing but money that killer the license.</p><p></p><p>The german publisher did the first few books and was happy enough with the bottomline after paying his cost and WotC's fee and had already announced the next books they had scheduled.</p><p></p><p>The upcomming license renewal was Seen as a standard proceedure. Then WotC shocked them with suddenly demanding an unreasonable fee for the german market. After their response that it is not possible to dell that many D&D books in "DSA-country" WotC informed via another mail that the license would not be renewed.</p><p></p><p>WotC actually approached the few other german publishers that could handle D&D and they all just laughed at the figures WotC demanded.</p><p></p><p>And that was the end of roughly 30 years of german D&D.</p><p></p><p>Since a lot of other language translation disappeared at the same time (check the local amazon.xxx for at least 4e PHB 1 in spanisch, French vor italiano) i guess it was the same story in these countries</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mirtek, post: 7683155, member: 40810"] Money. That's the reason. Up to 4e D&D was available in a lot of different languages. They all stoped during 4e after the first few books. At least for the German edition it is known that it was nothing but money that killer the license. The german publisher did the first few books and was happy enough with the bottomline after paying his cost and WotC's fee and had already announced the next books they had scheduled. The upcomming license renewal was Seen as a standard proceedure. Then WotC shocked them with suddenly demanding an unreasonable fee for the german market. After their response that it is not possible to dell that many D&D books in "DSA-country" WotC informed via another mail that the license would not be renewed. WotC actually approached the few other german publishers that could handle D&D and they all just laughed at the figures WotC demanded. And that was the end of roughly 30 years of german D&D. Since a lot of other language translation disappeared at the same time (check the local amazon.xxx for at least 4e PHB 1 in spanisch, French vor italiano) i guess it was the same story in these countries [/QUOTE]
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