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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 4440353" data-attributes="member: 51747">I think you're being overly optimistic. There almost wasn't any license for this edition. My best guess (and the guess of several publishers I've talked to) is that the 4E license will be free. Once publishers are more use to working with a more restrictive license, the 5E license will be paid license only.  While there is nothing wrong with that, it does move away from the core idea of Wizards of 8 years ago. The core idea of 8 years ago at Wizards was listen to the customer and give them EXACTLY what they want. Wizards today definitely listens to their customers. (Hell, the current model they're using for campaign settings originated at ENWorld and I was one of many people that suggested something quite similar to its current incarnation.) But enough of the decisions ... well ... appear to have gone through many committees, and the final product barely resembles the initial intent.  The GSL is a prime example. The original intent at GenCon 07 was to have 4E be OGL. But to me the GSL reads like something that started off as OGL 2.0 but got went through 10 months of committee meetings and various departments and each making changes and the final product is far from its initial intent, ineffective at reaching its stated goals, and confusing. So when I was quick to point out a page ago that I didn't say that WotC is the world's most evil corporation, I quickly pointed out that I never said that. Wizards today appears to be a corporation filled with "weasels" (to borrow the Scott Adams definition of the term), atleast to me. Is that good, no. Is that bad, ehhh no. It just is. But I do not see it as effective in the long run as Wizards of 8 years ago.</blockquote>

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