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<blockquote data-quote="Ximenes088" data-source="post: 4145628" data-attributes="member: 59899">I'm not sure the result they want is just a market for their game. I think the result they want is lots of money, a market for their game being a plausible route for this. We can argue whether or not their current tactics are going to get them there, but it can't be forgotten that the beancounters who've greenlighted this project are doing it because they think it'll get WotC more cash.We will not get online rules lookup without a subscriber model, let alone content more consequential than the teaser bits we've gotten thus far. It just will not happen. There is no fiscal incentive whatsoever for them to create fluff-free rules summae for all their products and 3D models/tilesets and put them online without some kind of recurring payment to finance the work and account structure necessary to verify payment and legitimate access to the content. I'm sure they could do it out of love and tenderness, but they'd do it for about six months before some exec at Hasbro noticed a huge budget overrun on the love and tenderness line of the annual report and killed the project.However pleasant it might be to just tell WotC to give us free stuff because it's good for the game, or to cooperate with people giving us free stuff because that, too, is good for the game, WotC is a business. The designers doubtless all love their work and are devoted to the hobby, but they won't get to work in it for long if they don't sell product.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ximenes088, post: 4145628, member: 59899"] I'm not sure the result they want is just a market for their game. I think the result they want is [I]lots of money[/I], a market for their game being a plausible route for this. We can argue whether or not their current tactics are going to get them there, but it can't be forgotten that the beancounters who've greenlighted this project are doing it because they think it'll get WotC more cash. We will not get online rules lookup without a subscriber model, let alone content more consequential than the teaser bits we've gotten thus far. It just will not happen. There is no fiscal incentive whatsoever for them to create fluff-free rules summae for all their products and 3D models/tilesets and put them online without some kind of recurring payment to finance the work and account structure necessary to verify payment and legitimate access to the content. I'm sure they could do it out of love and tenderness, but they'd do it for about six months before some exec at Hasbro noticed a huge budget overrun on the love and tenderness line of the annual report and killed the project. However pleasant it might be to just tell WotC to give us free stuff because it's good for the game, or to cooperate with people giving us free stuff because that, too, is good for the game, WotC is a business. The designers doubtless all love their work and are devoted to the hobby, but they won't get to work in it for long if they don't sell product. [/QUOTE]

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