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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyvyan Basterd" data-source="post: 6174198" data-attributes="member: 4892">I think you're discounting points that make your assertions much less certain.Would the communities of sites like ENWorld found different games? Certainly. Then there are the casual gamers that make up about half of the people I've gamed with regularly (IME, I know it doesn't necessarily translate to the full gamer population) who won't play anything but D&D. Without the OGL some surely would have moved on to 4E despite not liking it as much as 3E. With the OGL they were able to stay with 3E and be supported (very important for casual gamers). Even amongst the savvier gamers of this and other sires, without a supported version of the previous edition to fall back on they may have played 4E because it was "good enough."I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm right, but we wouldn't know unless we could take a peak into the alternate universe where the OGL was never created. And since it has and can't be rescinded, I think they need to find a business model that embraces it fully and turns it into an advantage.</blockquote>