mamba
Legend
they aren’t, they go for the right to produce new stuffIf you're saying publishers will go to court just to be able to keep selling old stuff, I definitely do not think so.
they aren’t, they go for the right to produce new stuffIf you're saying publishers will go to court just to be able to keep selling old stuff, I definitely do not think so.
What a court says isn't important. The trust is what's important.
And that has definitely changed. Irrevocably, you might even say
So everything has changed.
The exact stance WotC - or the courts - ultimately decides to take is a footnote by now.
Note that this is a myth. According to a flawed reporting methodology, PF1 outsold 4e in particular channels. Meanwhile DDi alone was making staggering amounts of money.Who's to say--but--allow me to refer you to 2008-2012 when for the first time in history a competing game was outselling d&d. And they weren't even trying to claim the right to void the old ogl back then.
for which we have no evidence at all, and the fact that the edition was killed so fast basically points to the opposite.Note that this is a myth. According to a flawed reporting methodology, PF1 outsold 4e in particular channels. Meanwhile DDi alone was making staggering amounts of money.
(I would call that a fair assessment; they raised the cost of playing in their playground -- 4e -- to the point many publishers decided to go somewhere else... starting with one of them building a new playground that looked a lot like the old one.)One of the big problems with that is that 6e is really 5.5e and just about all you'll need to create new content would already out there in SRD land.
(Edit: the other big one is that's what they did with 4e and the GSL, and they believe that environment is what created their largest competitor, so...)
joe b.
I wouldn't hold my breath.when that happens
Likely not. But I think there will be at the very least for a while a fringe underground movement continuing publishing material for 13th age, PF1 and retro-clones. These systems seem to have a sufficiently strong fan-following that I don't foresee them being stomped out easily. And such fringe content will likely be published under 1.0a both to spite wizards, and to provide the sanctioned attribution to those creating the system.If you're saying publishers will go to court just to be able to keep selling old stuff, I definitely do not think so.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
(I'm not even saying it can't happen. Only that people aren't trusting WotC to keep playing in its garden anymore. Whether the garden is safe or not is somewhat less of a pressing issue when it's empty)
I asked a friend -- avid 4e fan -- if there are still people creating 4e content.Likely not. But I think there will be at the very least for a while a fringe underground movement continuing publishing material for 13th age, PF1 and retro-clones. These systems seem to have a sufficiently strong fan-following that I don't foresee them being stomped out easily. And such fringe content will likely be published under 1.0a both to spite wizards, and to provide the sanctioned attribution to those creating the system.