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<blockquote data-quote="_Michael_" data-source="post: 9320717" data-attributes="member: 7045276"><p>Then WotC deserves to go belly-up. Period. If you aren't willing to learn and adapt, then you deserve to go bankrupt. Get out of the way of other companies in the market trying to actually put out quality, not quantity. Selling sideline junk (like endless trinkets and other memorabilia like key chains, mugs, pens, etc) will sap the bottom line as much as trying to slip some fraud into the contract by revising it after the fact because the base has been riled up and those are the easiest (and first) to be dumped by consumers. Cut the crap, stop selling junk, focus more on the standards, and leave the OGL as it is, with the "irrevocable" word placed in it, and be done.</p><p></p><p>Trying to juggle the OGL to see if you can squeeze more out of it is a bad idea. Just look what happened to Disney and Star Wars with the EU. That's what Hasbro wants--to be able to toss out the OGL entirely, close up shop, and sell ONLY WotC stuff, with all the content creators and their ancillary companies put out to pasture. It's a monopolistic practice guaranteed to generate bad will and low sales.</p><p></p><p></p><p>How many smaller content creation companies left after the OGL debacle? Kobold Press and Paizo left, two of the biggest content creators, and then Paizo even created it's own ORC rules as a direct challenge to the supremacy of WotC in the RPG market. Others, like Green Ronin, were also very displeased. The loss of those two companies alone, with their combined revenues for the content they created for WotC's Dungeons & Dragons trademark is in the millions of dollars.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_Michael_, post: 9320717, member: 7045276"] Then WotC deserves to go belly-up. Period. If you aren't willing to learn and adapt, then you deserve to go bankrupt. Get out of the way of other companies in the market trying to actually put out quality, not quantity. Selling sideline junk (like endless trinkets and other memorabilia like key chains, mugs, pens, etc) will sap the bottom line as much as trying to slip some fraud into the contract by revising it after the fact because the base has been riled up and those are the easiest (and first) to be dumped by consumers. Cut the crap, stop selling junk, focus more on the standards, and leave the OGL as it is, with the "irrevocable" word placed in it, and be done. Trying to juggle the OGL to see if you can squeeze more out of it is a bad idea. Just look what happened to Disney and Star Wars with the EU. That's what Hasbro wants--to be able to toss out the OGL entirely, close up shop, and sell ONLY WotC stuff, with all the content creators and their ancillary companies put out to pasture. It's a monopolistic practice guaranteed to generate bad will and low sales. How many smaller content creation companies left after the OGL debacle? Kobold Press and Paizo left, two of the biggest content creators, and then Paizo even created it's own ORC rules as a direct challenge to the supremacy of WotC in the RPG market. Others, like Green Ronin, were also very displeased. The loss of those two companies alone, with their combined revenues for the content they created for WotC's Dungeons & Dragons trademark is in the millions of dollars. [/QUOTE]
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