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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 8927630" data-attributes="member: 7034611">no I did not, that was not my postIf you want my take on what happened anyway1) WotC sent out a revised OGL 1.1 to be signed within a week by the parties they sent them to (so not a draft despite what WotC still keeps claiming, and not 'not an attempt to break promises' like you do) with conditions so bad that none of the 3PPs they sent them to signed on2) when the terms leaked, it set the D&D community ablaze and resulted in many 3PPs speaking out that under those terms they could not create D&D products, followed by ongoing kickstarters and those not having completed their product yet reaching out to their backers and saying they might have to change course and not be D&D compatible in order to maintain their own IP instead of handing it over to WotC under the new terms. Planned kickstarters were delayed and planned projects were announced to shift from D&D to generic / a different system to avoid having to use the OGL 1.13) WotC's customers revolted too, resulting in the cancellation of 10s of thousands of DDB accounts, youtubers covered the whole thing and moved away from being D&D channels to being RPG channels, threatening (indirectly, not explicitly) to cut off WotC from attracting a considerable amount of new customers (the way these channels did in the past)4) because of the backlash, cancellations and potential threat to WotC's future plans with the movie and VTT, after over a week, WotC finally was open to an actual conversation, releasing an OGL 1.2 draft and asking for community input. At the time this was often seen as a stalling tactic, but I believe in hindsight we can assume it was an honest outreach. The survey was planned to be open for two weeks5) because of the overwhelming feedback (high number of contributors and clear direction of a vast majority of answers), WotC closed the survey after about a week and said that it was now clear what the community wanted, which essentially was for OGL 1.0a to not be revoked. So they ended up not revoking it and as a sign of goodwill / atonement they also released it under the CC, which is more clearly not revocable.6) throughout all of this, other publishers started organizing and working an a competing license, the ORC. This license is still being worked on, so we will have to see what becomes of it, esp. after the sudden and unexpected move by WotC to release their SRD under the CC.Personally I am very interested in what becomes of it.7) with the release of the SRD under the CC, things have quieted down, as hoped for / intended by WotC, but there are still people upset about the whole episode and figuring out what it means to their relation with WotC and D&D, so there probably is some permanent damage done to WotC's reputation and bottom line, the question is how much (no one will know, but likely not all that much ultimately)</blockquote>

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