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<blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 3984944" data-attributes="member: 8277">The solution may have been not to let everyone publish.&nbsp; I think the way that some envisioned preventing a glut was to have exclusive licenses for some companies, and not have the game be open at all.&nbsp; It could still be free to use the rules-- but you have to have wizards' expressed permission.A similar situation happened on Rpgnow.com a few years back.&nbsp; Before GR (or maybe it was WW), etc came over to RPGnow.com, they insisted on &quot;cleaning out the riff-raff&quot; and a lot of smaller publishers were pushed to &quot;the edge&quot; alternate site (I think the lowest-performing half of the publishers, many of which were defunct companies, but others that simply didn't have dazzling cover art or name recognition).&nbsp; Fortunately, Basic Action Games was one of the companies that got to stay on the main site, but a lot of people were hopping mad over it when it was announced (they'd been pushed off the main site-- essentially into oblivion).&nbsp; I for one, am glad that they haven't elected to go this route-- though not thrilled with the $5,000 buy-in for third parties either (not that it will affect me-- but it will ruin some).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BASHMAN, post: 3984944, member: 8277"] The solution may have been not to let everyone publish. I think the way that some envisioned preventing a glut was to have exclusive licenses for some companies, and not have the game be open at all. It could still be free to use the rules-- but you have to have wizards' expressed permission. A similar situation happened on Rpgnow.com a few years back. Before GR (or maybe it was WW), etc came over to RPGnow.com, they insisted on "cleaning out the riff-raff" and a lot of smaller publishers were pushed to "the edge" alternate site (I think the lowest-performing half of the publishers, many of which were defunct companies, but others that simply didn't have dazzling cover art or name recognition). Fortunately, Basic Action Games was one of the companies that got to stay on the main site, but a lot of people were hopping mad over it when it was announced (they'd been pushed off the main site-- essentially into oblivion). I for one, am glad that they haven't elected to go this route-- though not thrilled with the $5,000 buy-in for third parties either (not that it will affect me-- but it will ruin some). [/QUOTE]

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