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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9574710" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't really buy this story that the OGL was &quot;just about feedback&quot; when we know there were multiple versions of it, which were essentially a negotiation, and all of which had horrific terms for the 3PPs. It was &quot;just about feedback&quot; in the same sense as your landlord sending you a new lease with a 30% higher rent is &quot;just about feedback&quot;, because you can tell him to piss off and try to negotiate, but he'd much rather you just said &quot;Okay fine&quot;.They also didn't show it as early as he seems to be suggesting, or rather, the version that leaked wasn't super-early, it was clearly quite developed. This wasn't some sort of survey, where WotC were saying &quot;Would you be okay if we did X&quot; or &quot;Which of these approaches do you like?&quot;, it was WotC saying &quot;This is what we're going to do&quot;, and maybe anticipating some pushback, but certainly not looking purely for &quot;feedback&quot;.I do agree with his point that outright getting rid of the OGL for 5.5 would have actually been less controversial/less of an issue. It would still have been screaming chaos, but of a different kind (though I think ultimately even more harmful for WotC, just less loud).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9574710, member: 18"] I don't really buy this story that the OGL was "just about feedback" when we know there were multiple versions of it, which were essentially a negotiation, and all of which had horrific terms for the 3PPs. It was "just about feedback" in the same sense as your landlord sending you a new lease with a 30% higher rent is "just about feedback", because you can tell him to piss off and try to negotiate, but he'd much rather you just said "Okay fine". They also didn't show it as early as he seems to be suggesting, or rather, the version that leaked wasn't super-early, it was clearly quite developed. This wasn't some sort of survey, where WotC were saying "Would you be okay if we did X" or "Which of these approaches do you like?", it was WotC saying "This is what we're going to do", and maybe anticipating some pushback, but certainly not looking purely for "feedback". I do agree with his point that outright getting rid of the OGL for 5.5 would have actually been less controversial/less of an issue. It would still have been screaming chaos, but of a different kind (though I think ultimately even more harmful for WotC, just less loud). [/QUOTE]

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