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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 3474421" data-attributes="member: 2477">A while ago, when a lot of folks were getting ad's for D&D chess set to the addresses that only Paizo had, I think Paizo said that WotC "owned" those addresses. I could be wrong though and perhaps it was just the names pre-Paizo. The issue sort of died before I saw any resolution as to whether Paizo sold the names of customers to WotC or not.  I imagine the contract was a yearly one, and someone could go through and figure out when it started and when it theoretically should end. Also, as I mentioned, lots of the Paizo guys freelance for WotC, so even if the AP wrapped up 'elsewhere" it'd probably still be sort of a "Paizo" thing. It'll be interesting to see how the "rights" play out, in regard to say, compilations of Dungeon material. I wonder how the fans would react to WotC publishing an Age of Worms hardcover.I wonder what the influences are. At some point, the WotC team looked at the periodicals as a profit stream. They previously had gotten rid of them, because the other option was to get rid of them. The Digitial Initiative may have been there, but that doesn't explain why they didn't let Paizo keep the magazines around. (It probably would have been easy to pluck stuff from the magazines for the site.) I always thought the blocking of the AoW HC was partly due to Paizo's use of Wizards IP (such as greyhawk) and perhaps WotC got tired of the way it was being used. Otherwise I'd figure they'd even involve Paizo in the DI on some level.With the additional products Paizo was doing, perhaps WotC figured there was no reason to support what was becoming a third party competitor.</blockquote>

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