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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SiCK_Boy" data-source="post: 8129794" data-attributes="member: 7026447">Yeah, but one has to consider the steps taken by GF9 in response to WotC complaint about that Korean subcontractor.WotC complained almost a year after the products were distributed. GF9 did cut their contract with that subcontractor and also bought back (or offered to buy back) all the existing stock, at their own expenses. WotC has shown absolutely no openness to any solution... it really stinks of a fake excuse to just get out of their licensing agreement with GF9.The situation in regards to the French translator is even worse. That company made a French version of the SRD before WotC had even announced they were going to do localizations, they called it “Heroes & Dragons”, but WotC then accuse them of infringing on their copyright? Unless there’s something in the SRD that clearly states it has to exist and be used only in English, that’s pure naughty word... and in any case, certainly not something GF9 has control over. In any case, GF9 also let go of this subcontractor, but again that’s not enough for WotC.And the document seems to clearly imply that all those subcontractors were approved of by WotC; it’s not like GF9 was picking random companies in various countries... they made what seemed to them sound business arrangements, yet a year later, WotC starts blaming them and trying to punish them for those decisions.It’s quite possible that WotC is looking to bring more work in house. I think the worst part is the translations; most languages have only been able to receive a fraction of the existing products (at a much more expensive price, at least in French, as someone mentioned; French book are almost double the price of English ones, at least in Canada... and when I bought some while visiting France, they were the same EU price as their US price, so the exchange rate is the markup it cost even there). This mess with the GF9 contract will have us lose probably almost a year of output for translated products... who knows when some new company (or WotC) catches up... and who would risk taking such a contract now, with WotC being such an unreliable partner, and the potential of a 6th edition that could make everything old obsolete even before it reaches the markets...</blockquote>

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