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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8899944" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It's very easy to determine someone's intentions when they shove a baseball bat in your face and say "SIGN OR ELSE".</p><p></p><p>Which is what the OGL 1.1 and associated term sheet essentially was.</p><p></p><p>That you're claiming it's a matter of being "open-minded" is utterly destroyed by WotC's own behaviour. If IP protection was remotely a serious concern, they wouldn't have presented such an aggressive, stupid, and grasping OGL 1.1, would they? </p><p></p><p>Because what they're going to actually achieve is a myriad of books with a stuff like 5E in a giant font on them, or "For use with the world's most popular roleplaying game" or even "Compatible with D&D". This will be all over them. And none of them will be OGL. If WotC wants to stop that, they're going to have to go to court, and literally "risk it all" trying to suppress them.</p><p></p><p>What they've achieved, if anything, is to significantly increase the real-terms risk to their brand.</p><p></p><p>If brand protection was really the goal, they would have made a very generous OGL 1.1, which did NOT invalidate the OGL 1.0a (because that's unnecessary and increases risk as I've said), and just had that OGL offer an actual "WotC Seal of Approval"-type branding (perhaps with the D&D logo). That could have got countless people to sign. But because they're not actually serious about brand protection, they went for maximum greed, maximum stupidity, like some '90s cartoon villain.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You think that's true of 20m of the 30m now playing fit that? I don't.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree there, but none of them are going to balk at buying a new PHB or whatever, it's been years, and probably only some of them even need it. You implied they'd quit with 1D&D.</p><p></p><p>What will actually make them quit, though, is trying to make them "pay to play". That's a different thing from just an edition change, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8899944, member: 18"] It's very easy to determine someone's intentions when they shove a baseball bat in your face and say "SIGN OR ELSE". Which is what the OGL 1.1 and associated term sheet essentially was. That you're claiming it's a matter of being "open-minded" is utterly destroyed by WotC's own behaviour. If IP protection was remotely a serious concern, they wouldn't have presented such an aggressive, stupid, and grasping OGL 1.1, would they? Because what they're going to actually achieve is a myriad of books with a stuff like 5E in a giant font on them, or "For use with the world's most popular roleplaying game" or even "Compatible with D&D". This will be all over them. And none of them will be OGL. If WotC wants to stop that, they're going to have to go to court, and literally "risk it all" trying to suppress them. What they've achieved, if anything, is to significantly increase the real-terms risk to their brand. If brand protection was really the goal, they would have made a very generous OGL 1.1, which did NOT invalidate the OGL 1.0a (because that's unnecessary and increases risk as I've said), and just had that OGL offer an actual "WotC Seal of Approval"-type branding (perhaps with the D&D logo). That could have got countless people to sign. But because they're not actually serious about brand protection, they went for maximum greed, maximum stupidity, like some '90s cartoon villain. You think that's true of 20m of the 30m now playing fit that? I don't. I agree there, but none of them are going to balk at buying a new PHB or whatever, it's been years, and probably only some of them even need it. You implied they'd quit with 1D&D. What will actually make them quit, though, is trying to make them "pay to play". That's a different thing from just an edition change, though. [/QUOTE]
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