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I completely agree that it can be succesful, even highly succesful (20k+ sales in the first year) without threatening D&D. However, there's a notable undercurrent, if not outright expectation, by a number of Pathfinder supporters who seem to believe that it's going to outsell 4e. Personally I...

So you ignored the part of my post with 'on reflection and rereading the licenses...' It still doesn't escape the fundamental point, however, why the outrage at WotC for a restrictive license, when there's no outrage at every other game company which doesn't have a license at all? Why does D&D...

Note, if you read the thread, I was making a point about companies without licenses, Green Ronin's more stringent license and the GSL. It was a comparison of reaction to the GSL and the others, not the OGL. Completely agreed and for a long while it looked as if there was going to be one strong...

Green Ronin's True 20 and M&M superlink licenses, for example. They both use the OGL but put further restrictions on what products can be created to use their license. Just as the GSL they allow branding to indicate compatibility, but the True 20 license has an arbitrary product standards...

Check the post I was replying to, I was making a sarcastic point.

I agree. Personally I would rather the GSL offered more of a safe harbour and lost some of its restrictions (I have no problem with 'no making your own system out of ours) but there will be third party products for it, and I think the number will increase. Aside from the tone difference between...

It doesn't bode well for Paizo that you can count the number of companies supporting Pathfinder on one hand..... WotC doesn't need the GSL or 3rd party support for 4e for it to be a succesful game. Considering how many games are succesful without any third party support, assuming it's required...

I think you're taking a supportable position and argument (The GSL is not as open as the OGL) and spinning it into an unsupported and illogical conclusion (WotC wants to put companies out of business). If there was no GSL it would be a more supported position, but still not actively show 'WotC...

I think that's an oversimplification. The GSL (absent whether you like its overall language or not) doesn't discourage adventures, or campaign settings (albeit redefining races is out). I think in the main it's there to prevent or discourage new games using the system. It has a knockon effect...

While I mostly agree with you, there's nothing in the GSL that discourages those people from being able to share the game they love and express themselves. They're making a business decision not to do so. Moreover nothing stops them from spinning off a ltd company to put things out, or writing...

While I agree that the GSL needed to be more of a safe harbor (I expected it to remove the ability for publishers to create their own systems using it), I disagree on your view on other publishers here. Third party publishers, other companies in the industry (especially the larger ones) are...

I don't see Wizards buying up or eliminating any competition. Until they start purchasing other companies, or aggresively bringing suits against them (which they might well have to do to defend a trademark) then that's just exaggerating on the effects/reasoning of the GSL. Every RPG company...

Complete X books were among the highest selling supplements of 2nd, 3rd, 3.5 and OGL products. Not to do them is financially stupid and would be counter to what the majority of customers want (as evidenced by how well they sell).

Try googling and searching the old ogl lists, you'll see plenty of things Dancey said, and no, albeit I could well have missed it but he didn't say anything about 'giving' D&D to the people. And note, you can't take D&D away from WotC unless you can persuade Hasbro to sell it to you (incredibly...

Nope though I'm sure I spend enough time with them to qualify for a badge. I'm in mainstream publishing, specialising in rights management and IP law. The last time the work was copied or distributed begins the clock on the statute of limitations (so, in otherwords the last download in your...

Incorrect. In the US (it differs in other countries) the statute of limitations runs for 3 years from the last breach. The only difference that comes in is that some courts differ on whether you can extend the case back to the first breach if it's outside the three years or not. And yes, that...

This is all entirely unsupported guesswork. And calling the closing of gleemax a coverup is ludicrous. The DDI doesn't=Gleemax, just as Magic online isn't Gleemax. Gleemax wasn't a money maker, it was an attempt at a social hub that might then drive sales by site visits, but in and of itself it...

What Harr says, this isn't something you can just get a bit of advice on and do, this is a whole different pool to swim around in to the OGL.