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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 2641345" data-attributes="member: 2477">Lets say the core book has dwindled to selling 100 a month. Releasing the SRD cuts that to 50 a month. But, the product you release next sells 4,000 copies instead of 3,000.No, the numbers aren't exact, since no one will give numbers, because if people used real numbers, Voodoo would kill them, or something.So, let me repeat. Releasing an SRD say, 4 months after the Core Rules have been released, would contribute to future sales. It would also help people like me with a player base that's scattered over the USA.Not to speak in Absolutes, but that's simply wrong. A publisher can reprint whatever they want to from OGL material, the publisher's opinion doesn't matter.If I wanted to, I could type up an SRD, or Scan/OCR one, and it'd be perfectly legal so long as I followed the requirements. The arguement against such is that future products would not be as much OGC, but who cares if you can't use the OGC anyway?True, but the idea is that WotC isn't going to do something that loses them sales over all. They're a profitable corporate subsidiary of another corporation that demands performance from them. To believe that WotC loses money just because they can afford it is a bit silly. I do understand that it might not be possible for some of the really small guys, and like I mentioned elsewhere, a PDF product will be affected differently.It just seems the idea is discarded too quickly among publishers afraid that it's customers are trying to get something for nothing. If you look at even a portion of the replies I've gotten, the idea is repeatedly put forth that I'm trying to do something underhanded.</blockquote>

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