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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 4519917" data-attributes="member: 59096">Forked from: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showpost.php?postid=4517764" target="_blank"> When did I stop being WotC's target audience? </a>Reading through that thread from beginning to end, I find two themes that go beyond simple disagreement. Simple disagreement I would define as "I like D&D and you prefer Vampire, but that's cool," and "I don't like 3E as much as I like 4E, but my friends are playing it and they asked me to join, so I will".  Simple disagreements such as those don't generate 10+ pages of replies. That being said, I see two irreconcilable differences when it comes to the edition change:1. The D&D brand: If things were simply about prefering one system to the other, there wouldn't be an edition war. The issue is that the D&D brand has value, both to individual people and in practice within the gaming community. The fact is that the D&D brand itself is solely supporting 4E right now hurts the 3E gamer and this isn't something that is likely to be fixed. 2. The OGL: There are a lot of people who believe in the OGL, though I am not one of them. WotC has removed the D&D brand in its current and future incarnation from the OGL, and the OGL community is lessened by this. Again, this is something that is unlikely to be fixed.</blockquote>