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<blockquote data-quote="The Scythian" data-source="post: 9241541" data-attributes="member: 6875986">Saying that it only hurt the little guys might not be the winning argument you think it is.I have no idea how many of the bigger licensees shut down.&nbsp; What I do know is that a lot of the bigger licensees were the first to be contacted, and they spent the better part of three months not knowing if their businesses would be viable after January 4th.&nbsp; Some of those bigger licensees were making pay-your-mortgage-and-put-your-kids-through-school money.&nbsp; Some of the bigger licensees were making pay-your-employees-who-are-paying-their-mortgages-and-putting-their-kids-through-school money.&nbsp; Even if WotC ended up backing off and those businesses ended up not shutting down, they were forced into a period of intense and distressing uncertainty.&nbsp; All for the &quot;crime&quot; of agreeing to and abiding by the terms of a license freely offered by WotC.But here's the thing: licensees are licensees are licensees.&nbsp; It doesn't matter if they're Sony securing a license to make Spider-Man films, or publishers of any size agreeing to the terms of the OGL, their rights within those legal agreements should be honored as long as they abide by the terms of those agreements, whether it's one guy in his study making enough to buy a coffee every two months, or Paizo, or even WotC (as they're a party to the agreement too).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Scythian, post: 9241541, member: 6875986"] Saying that it only hurt the little guys might not be the winning argument you think it is. I have no idea how many of the bigger licensees shut down. What I do know is that a lot of the bigger licensees were the first to be contacted, and they spent the better part of three months not knowing if their businesses would be viable after January 4th. Some of those bigger licensees were making pay-your-mortgage-and-put-your-kids-through-school money. Some of the bigger licensees were making pay-your-employees-who-are-paying-their-mortgages-and-putting-their-kids-through-school money. Even if WotC ended up backing off and those businesses ended up not shutting down, they were forced into a period of intense and distressing uncertainty. All for the "crime" of agreeing to and abiding by the terms of a license freely offered by WotC. But here's the thing: licensees are licensees are licensees. It doesn't matter if they're Sony securing a license to make Spider-Man films, or publishers of any size agreeing to the terms of the OGL, their rights within those legal agreements should be honored as long as they abide by the terms of those agreements, whether it's one guy in his study making enough to buy a coffee every two months, or Paizo, or even WotC (as they're a party to the agreement too). [/QUOTE]

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