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<blockquote data-quote="malakai6276" data-source="post: 100526" data-attributes="member: 3154">It would seem that there position in general has changed when it comes to people developing freeware source materials, whether it is software, conversions or whatever.If you think about though... it sort of makes sense. I mean, they &quot;allowed&quot; the community to develop material for THEIR gaming system, but once the community started to infringe on [possibly] future products of theirs... it's a different story all together.The way I see it is that WOTC wanted to have a loose-hand when it came to community developed products, because in the end... it only benefits there sales. But this had to stop at some point becuase the community will eventually &quot;think of everything&quot; and &quot;everything&quot; would be free, thus WOTC would have to race against it's own sutomers to develop products that they can sell before a similar idea/concept/product comes out on the net.Software... why is the buzz about Masters Tools basically &quot;dead&quot;? Because the community of developers have, in one form or another, already done everything that MT promised to do and more. And all this software is free. How much money do you think WotC poured into MT development before they realized that their own fan's made it obsolete?I just hope I get this last update of my NPC Equipment Gen. out before they close the door on me [and all the other developers out there], version 2.1 coming soon... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="malakai6276, post: 100526, member: 3154"] It would seem that there position in general has changed when it comes to people developing freeware source materials, whether it is software, conversions or whatever. If you think about though... it sort of makes sense. I mean, they "allowed" the community to develop material for THEIR gaming system, but once the community started to infringe on [possibly] future products of theirs... it's a different story all together. The way I see it is that WOTC wanted to have a loose-hand when it came to community developed products, because in the end... it only benefits there sales. But this had to stop at some point becuase the community will eventually "think of everything" and "everything" would be free, thus WOTC would have to race against it's own sutomers to develop products that they can sell before a similar idea/concept/product comes out on the net. Software... why is the buzz about Masters Tools basically "dead"? Because the community of developers have, in one form or another, already done everything that MT promised to do and more. And all this software is free. How much money do you think WotC poured into MT development before they realized that their own fan's made it obsolete? I just hope I get this last update of my NPC Equipment Gen. out before they close the door on me [and all the other developers out there], version 2.1 coming soon... :D [/QUOTE]

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