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<blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 4037746" data-attributes="member: 7394"><p>I'd argue that the OGL ended up working out to WotCs advantage. When the glut of D20 products hit, it lasted for a couple years, and at that point there was a consumer backlash against 3rd party products with the D20 logo. The commonly used argument was that the 3rd party stuff was mostly cheaply produced and of inferior quality. The fact of the matter is that most of these products had a higher production value than many of the TSR 2nd edition products, often much higher. In terms of the inferior quality argument, I'd argue that a few products weren't so great, but the vast majority of them were good, not to mention the fact that they were often written by the very same people who were writing products for WotC. Regardless of truth vs. perception, the fact of the matter is that the belief that WotC was making better stuff on the whole drove a lot of people back to WotC. These are possibly the same people who, under a previous edition, might have jumped the D&amp;D ship entirely for a whole different RPG system.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Darrin Drader, post: 4037746, member: 7394"] I'd argue that the OGL ended up working out to WotCs advantage. When the glut of D20 products hit, it lasted for a couple years, and at that point there was a consumer backlash against 3rd party products with the D20 logo. The commonly used argument was that the 3rd party stuff was mostly cheaply produced and of inferior quality. The fact of the matter is that most of these products had a higher production value than many of the TSR 2nd edition products, often much higher. In terms of the inferior quality argument, I'd argue that a few products weren't so great, but the vast majority of them were good, not to mention the fact that they were often written by the very same people who were writing products for WotC. Regardless of truth vs. perception, the fact of the matter is that the belief that WotC was making better stuff on the whole drove a lot of people back to WotC. These are possibly the same people who, under a previous edition, might have jumped the D&D ship entirely for a whole different RPG system. [/QUOTE]

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