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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pramas" data-source="post: 1949012" data-attributes="member: 995">You seem to be under the impression that I'm arguing that WotC is in some sort of dire danger from d20 publishers. I'm not. I'm sure WotC is doing fine. The question is has the OGL and d20 helped or hurt their bottom line? Would D&D be more or less profitable if there had been no OGL and d20? I think the huge number of d20 products has cost WotC sales. Some percentage of their previously captive audience suddenly had a lot more options. Now maybe that only meant each D&D sourcebook sold 5,000 or 10,000 units less than it might have, but that adds up quickly. Furthermore, the money lost was the gravy, the pure profit after all a book's costs have been recouped. Some would claim any lost revenue is made up in sales of core books to these fans. I doubt it. People who buy d20 books probably have the core books already. That's also why this isn't a two way street. Maybe a handful of people bought WotC's psionics rules so they could play in our Mindshadows setting, but lots of psionics fans bought Mindshadows instead of WotC's new release the month it came out. This doesn't mean I think WotC's RPG business going to keel over and die next year. I just think D&D would be a stronger brand and more profitable had WotC kept it proprietary. Obviously I'm happy that they didn't (as is the average gamer, who now has lots more stuff to choose from). I'm also happy that the health of D&D is not my responsibility. Charles Ryan surely has the devil's choice ahead of him with 4th Edition.</blockquote>Competition between RPG publishers is pure myth. [/QUOTE]This is so profoundly ridiculous, I don't know where to begin.[/QUOTE]

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