1 Certainty, 4 Possibilities, and 1 Question.
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Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
You've just characterized 100% speculative personal opinion as certainty.
So I've gotta ask, why start with a false statement?
I'm no longer an active customer of WoTC anymore since 4E. It was a choice I made based on my gaming needs, not on the decisions by WoTC. WoTC didn't lose me as a customer because of their business practices. In regards to the decision to stop selling their PDF versions of D&D I find it hard to believe that WoTC made this decision lightly. It makes no sense to me that they have such ulterior motives as if to say "Screw the customers. We want money!!" WoTC wants to keep the industry alive and well. If not, there would be no point in continuing on in the business. Sure they have ticked off some people, but I think that once the dust settles, people will be going back to what matters, playing games with their friends and having a good time.
The lawsuits aren't an alibi. Lawsuits are expensive.
My personal theory is that they're hoping to move to a subscription format.
"We're not going to reintroduce pdfs."
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"We're looking into other avenues of digital distribution."
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Subscriptions, I think. Is there some other options?
Personally, I love the subscription model for a living game system. Sixty bucks to never have to buy a WotC hard cover book? Count me in! I've gotten far, far more than $60 of value already, and my subscription's got plenty more time in it. Short of releasing products open source, I don't think any other company is going to be able to match that value.
But a subscription model for a dead game? I don't think so. I really, really don't. I'm not interested, and I don't think many other people will be interested either.
My personal theory is that they're hoping to move to a subscription format.
"We're not going to reintroduce pdfs."
+
"We're looking into other avenues of digital distribution."
=
Subscriptions, I think. Is there some other options?
Personally, I love the subscription model for a living game system. Sixty bucks to never have to buy a WotC hard cover book? Count me in! I've gotten far, far more than $60 of value already, and my subscription's got plenty more time in it. Short of releasing products open source, I don't think any other company is going to be able to match that value.
But a subscription model for a dead game? I don't think so. I really, really don't. I'm not interested, and I don't think many other people will be interested either.
thedungeondelver
Adventurer
I have said for years, and you can all laugh and point if you want, that "forever irrevocable" on the OGL depends solely on how bad WotC does or does not want it to be.
I think that if WotC became just an impressum of Hasbro (I mean, entirely, as in there are no "WotC staff" left, the logo is just something they paste on boxes) and Hasbro wanted the OGL revoked, they would put their shoulder to the wheel and make it happen. It would cost them a lot of bad press, it would be hard for them to do, but they'd give it a go, I'd wager.
ExploderWizard
Hero
Yeah, but just as it was in Star Wars Episode IV, the tighter thier grip the more systems will slip through thier fingers.
I doubt it. Sure, a hotshot lawyer can do a lot of stuff, but IMO "In consideration for agreeing to use this License, the Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license with the exact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content." is fairly ironclad.
What they could do is go after all the people who had sloppy Section 15s and/or declarations of product identity, but I don't think they could stop new material being made (once people adapted).
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