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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 393936" data-attributes="member: 812">Ask him, not me. He's over at GamingReport, isn't he?I'm just pointing out that your &quot;strategy&quot; offers no value according to the business model described by Ryan as he was creating the OGL. How do you know if that model is no longer valid?Could you be more specific? What does &quot;settled&quot; mean?How do you know it's huge? Because you've got a dozen friends who feel ngelected? Because four or five people have posted such a feeling on this board? That equals a huge market?Excuse me if I don't find that very compelling.It makes no sense whatsoever. WotC didn't make a penny on the transaction you just described. Unless you're suggesting people SELL material for older editions. Your original idea was that WotC should add the older editions to the SRD. But maybe you think WotC could sell that stuff instead.Well, guess what? They do! If you want to buy old adventures and other goodies, you CAN DO THAT. Go <a href="http://www.svgames.com/downloads-wotc.html" target="_blank">here</a> and enjoy yourself to your heart's content. Ask them how many sales they're getting while you're there, will you? Maybe we'll see how HUGE this market really is.If you want some company to start producing NEW material for the old games you need to demonstrate a viable business model. The fact that you think it would be cool is not a viable business model.And again, if WotC SRD's the earlier editions of the game they are providing the market with a reason to NOT buy the new product they've just invested all this money and time in. How does that make any marketing sense? Or do you suggest they support multiple versions and attempt to make money on all of them simultaneously? Doubling or even tripling their overhead -- for what? For this &quot;huge market&quot; you insist is waiting for them?How do you think they managed to miss this &quot;huge&quot; market when they were putting 3E together? Are they morons? Gee, pretty smart morons considering they're selling massive quantities of their products. I find it much easier to believe that the failure of research is yours, not theirs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 393936, member: 812"] Ask him, not me. He's over at GamingReport, isn't he? I'm just pointing out that your "strategy" offers no value according to the business model described by Ryan as he was creating the OGL. How do you know if that model is no longer valid? Could you be more specific? What does "settled" mean? How do you know it's huge? Because you've got a dozen friends who feel ngelected? Because four or five people have posted such a feeling on this board? That equals a huge market? Excuse me if I don't find that very compelling. It makes no sense whatsoever. WotC didn't make a penny on the transaction you just described. Unless you're suggesting people SELL material for older editions. Your original idea was that WotC should add the older editions to the SRD. But maybe you think WotC could sell that stuff instead. Well, guess what? They do! If you want to buy old adventures and other goodies, you CAN DO THAT. Go [URL=http://www.svgames.com/downloads-wotc.html]here[/URL] and enjoy yourself to your heart's content. Ask them how many sales they're getting while you're there, will you? Maybe we'll see how HUGE this market really is. If you want some company to start producing NEW material for the old games you need to demonstrate a viable business model. The fact that you think it would be cool is not a viable business model. And again, if WotC SRD's the earlier editions of the game they are providing the market with a reason to NOT buy the new product they've just invested all this money and time in. How does that make any marketing sense? Or do you suggest they support multiple versions and attempt to make money on all of them simultaneously? Doubling or even tripling their overhead -- for what? For this "huge market" you insist is waiting for them? How do you think they managed to miss this "huge" market when they were putting 3E together? Are they morons? Gee, pretty smart morons considering they're selling massive quantities of their products. I find it much easier to believe that the failure of research is yours, not theirs. [/QUOTE]

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