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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jawsh" data-source="post: 5790441" data-attributes="member: 17061">What you seem to be missing is that DDI isn't about the rules. It has the rules in it, yes, but people aren't paying for it just for the rules. It's a suite of value-added stuff. If it was just about the rules, it wouldn't be making any money at all right now, during 4E. As you say, people can get the rules elsewhere. Heck, they can pirate the rules if they want to. The only thing stopping little companies from producing their own character builders and Hypertext SRDs is that they can't do it as well as WotC. They simply cannot add the same value that WotC can. Not because WotC is official, but because WotC is the only company with the expertise and resources to sustain a value-adding model. And they're the only company out there that has sufficient traffic to their website to get people clicking and buying into the DDI. WotC sucks at making software, granted. But compared to WotC, those 3rd party developers are scrubs. The best they can do is HTML and plaintext.I think it's simply ridiculous to think that DDI and all its subscribers will instantly vanish the moment an OGL becomes available.</blockquote>