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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5023942" data-attributes="member: 6957">No, it is more like saying 'you used to do something that I very much approved of, then you went and stomped on the folks who were doing it your way.' The changeover was anything but smooth, and I loved the way they announced that folks could use both OGL and the GSL only after the deadline had gone by for when third party companies had to get rid of their existing D20 stock. Announcing it before then would have allowed companies to slap a sticker over the d20 trade dress, instead they changed their policy after it was too late for it to do much good..In doing so WotC went from being a company that supported an open community to being a company that went out of their way to damage that community. (Though I actually suspect heedlessness rather than malice.)Even under 3.X most of my purchases were from third party publishers, and the OGL and D20 STL gave me a warm and happy glow in regards to WotC, I might not buy their random overpriced plastic figures (I have never liked random packaging) but they had some good books, and I ended up getting better than half of their non setting specific titles.But I quite likely have five third party books for every one of the WotC books that I own. It is the damage that they caused the third party publishers that angers me. And is what I think deserving of hate.I cannot say that I am boycotting WotC - they currently have nothing that interests me, so not buying their products does not form a sacrifice of any sort - I don't like random figures, I don't play Magic, and I don't like 4e, so there is really nothing that they have that interests me.If they had anything that interested me then I might support them, but as it is... they have pretty much gotten rid of everything they had that I might purchase. If they ever come out with, say, Birthright for 4e then I might consider a boycott, because that is something that I might actually purchase, if only to convert over to 3.X.Which largely means that any bitterness that I might feel against the company is moot - they are not losing sales from me because of their policies, but because they have nothing that I want.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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