Alzrius
The EN World kitten
Oh you do, do you? So when you said that "everyone" abandoned the OGL, you just meant that you abandoned it? Because while that certainly makes a lot more sense, it's an...interesting, way of phrasing that particular declaration of personal disengagement with the license.Dunno about "other people". I only speak for myself.
"The same"? You haven't established that there's a premise from which to claim said same-ness.Can you say the same?
Ah yes, distrust of empirical research. Always the sign of intellectual honesty.Oh good. Appeal to authority as well. At least it's a good university.
When you say that the so-called "death" of the OGL is the "healthiest thing" for the hobby, then you should expect to be misunderstood if you didn't mean that less OGL meant more creativity.No one claimed that the OGL didn't result in more creativity. Let alone me.
So is this the part where you make good on having the self-awareness that you're not contributing anything positive anymore?So, I'm not sure why you're quoting this at me. But, at the end of the day, we're simply never going to agree on this. You believe that this has had this huge, ongoing, negative impact on the hobby. I believe that it had a huge, negative impact on the hobby that was quickly resolved and has resulted in a healthier hobby going forward.
Time will tell which of us is right. But, until then, neither of us is going to convince each other of anything.
...apparently not. Called it!You believe WotC has enough money and lawyers to bring down the Creative Commons License? Again, I don't think we're going to agree on this.
That said, I'll go ahead and presume that you're actually having trouble reading what I wrote instead of being disingenuous in your interpretation, so I'll try and make it simpler for you:
WotC doesn't need to try and "bring down" Creative Commons. They just have to scare people away from using its iteration of the 5.1 SRD, by threatening to sue them over a made-up legal-sounding reason that lets them "revoke" their having added said 5.1 SRD to it. And if that sounds ridiculous to you, then just remember that's what we all said right before they did the same thing with the OGL.