Another Cease and Desist Letter: 4E Powercards

[jensun]

I fail to see how the OGL was a bad thing for customers

While there has certainly been some excellent material produced under the OGL my impression is that it was outweighed by large quantities of low quality, poorly written rubbish which glutted the market. It made picking out the useful from the dross pretty damn difficult.

 

[xechnao]

lWhen that happened I realized if D&D went down the next big company was (and still is ) White Wolf, and I can not see them filling TSRs shoes (not then not now)...

Paizo is even smaller than White Wolf and it seems it is doing just fine.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

While there has certainly been some excellent material produced under the OGL my impression is that it was outweighed by large quantities of low quality, poorly written rubbish which glutted the market. It made picking out the useful from the dross pretty damn difficult.

see that was the big bad side of OGL...dozens of books that looked compattable that were not...ones that were broken, or just didn't fit...

Paizo is even smaller than White Wolf and it seems it is doing just fine.

please tell me that is a joke...I would rather D&D die then let piazo hold the reigns...

 

[xechnao]

This is also THE rpg in pop culture. Most people don't know anything about roleplaying games, but they know DnD.

I am not sure this is true today. I would think that final fantasy for example may be more in pop culture than dnd.

 

[Jack99]

The only thing we have regarding sales are some relative numbers for the original core trio of books regarding initial print runs. There has been a deafening silence on sales of books released after that point.

We're all going to read into that void as we see fit, and without numbers that neither of us have access to, neither my skepticism nor others fanboyism is going to bend much. I swear, some folks seem to take personal offense at the very suggestion that the 4e might not be the most financially successful edition of all time by any metric possible.

And some people seem to take offense at the fact that 4e might not be a huge failure. If you read my post, you will see I didn't claim them to be hard numbers. I merely pointed out that they were at least as good, and probably better than the "evidence" of a splintering mentioned by Carmachu.

Cheers

 

[xechnao]

I would rather D&D die then let piazo hold the reigns...

And what is the reason behind this?

 

[xechnao]

Every statement we have seen from WotC indicates that 4e outsold 3.x by quite a bit.

I dunno. How much would these indicate? 1%?...5000%?

 

[Jeff Wilder]

The genius part was letting the site operate for as long as it did. Why pay for market research when fans will do it for nothing? The site proved that there is a demand for such cards now WOTC can sell them.

Such "genius" would backfire pretty impressively if the shut-down resource could prove that WotC was aware of its activities and permitted them.

 

[xechnao]

Such "genius" would backfire pretty impressively if the shut-down resource could prove that WotC was aware of its activities and permitted them.

Only that they cant unless there was some kind of contact among them. Another reason Enworld is as safe as it can be.

 

[Sammael]

Only that they cant unless there was some kind of contact among them. Another reason Enworld is as safe as it can be.

Except that WotC has a legal advertising agreement with ENWorld, which, in my book, constitutes as "contact."