Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Are you sure you aren't just reflecting your pro-OGL bias?
Yes, I am sure that one of the objective benefits of the OGL is the 12 year pool of OGC and that if a company is going to use the OGL on a project they curtail that benefit by not using the OGL form the outset. Do you understand that objective point?
As to your conjecture regarding revenues for WotC, and their use of the OGL, it's pretty plain that their most popular edition in recent memory was an OGL product and that they utilized the OGL less and less as they got deeper into the edition. WotC revenues spike and coincide with their OGL use and falls off as they distance themselves from the OGL in the latter end of the 3.XE period. Can one say the revenues correlate? Maybe. But one cannot claim that they are conflicting.