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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jawsh" data-source="post: 5790528" data-attributes="member: 17061">The only thing you seem not to be convinced about is the degree of the losses that the DDI would incur. People are saying it's not as bad as you think it is. I think you were the one who claimed that the losses would be $500,000/month. That's hyperbole. I don't know if I should be making moral arguments for an inhuman corporation like WotC, but we expect the customers to act morally and not pirate the material, so I think it should be fair to expect WotC to act morally too. The fact is, charging a DDI subscription for just the rules is not a good value, and it's not moral. WotC should not take their customers' money and give them only the rules in return. There's a distinction you're not making between the rules themselves, and the tools used to manipulate them. Packaging bare rules is easy. Making tools is hard. People bitch about WotC because WotC is big, and we expect more out of the industry leader. People don't bitch about 3rd party tools because they tend to be free, and people expect less from 3rd parties. But the 3rd party tools are invariably worse than WotC's offerings. There are more bugs and less support in 3rd party solutions. As a labor of love, some gamer who's also a programmer in his day job might code some tools to use the OGL. However, what he won't do is support it.  And you know this how? Is there a poll I missed? Not necessarily. I am arguing for complete openness on WotC's part. I want to see a true Open Gaming License. However, there are still provisions possible to prevent software from using the Open Gaming Content.</blockquote>

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