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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4408394" data-attributes="member: 59506">I voted Yes, I am disapointed in WoTC, but I won't stop playing D&D.  However, the poll doesn't have the option of which incarnation of D&D people would choose to play.  For me, my disapointment leaves me feeling like not playing any "current" D&D and sticking with the OGL and my house-ruled game.  I might still be interested in new adventures and fluff books but that's because I can convert it all to my rules set. I'm not going to get into an argument about whether WoTC has made bad decisions, or whether others approve or disapprove of their decisions.  I think this can be accurately said; there are a lot of 3pp who, like Necromancer, have really been in a holding pattern for the last year.  A situation that doesn't seem like it will be resolved any time soon.  It seems the 3pp side of the industry is evenly split on waiting to see whether WoTC will make an usable GSL or if Paizo will be successful, before they commit to a course.  Of course, I feel the GSL is what's forcing 3pp to have to choose one or the other.  Add to this, WoTC will not make the expected amount of money this year because of delays with DDI.  All of this together makes me feel that the RPG industry is teetering on a brink, and in the current economy, wouldn't take much to push it over the edge.  If some things aren't done, and done soon, the industry could be right back where it was in the 90's.  The fate of WEG might become more common for other publisher in the next 6 months to a year. Whatever one feels about the OGL, whether it was a gift, whether we have a "right" to it or not, the OGL was a brilliant business decision.  It not only breathed life into the former TSR assets that WoTC had bought, but it breathed life back into the RPG industry itself.  It was that open cooperation that made everyone winners.  It just seems like that cooperation is gone (and not just from WoTC, some 3pp took unfair advantage of the OGL), it's too bad it's hurting the bigger 3pp who really are WoTC friends.</blockquote>

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