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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jezter6" data-source="post: 2770530" data-attributes="member: 6567">It's not because the technology itself is not good for the creative process, it's that publishers will WILLINGLY stop creating new mechanics because their last bit of mechanics were opened up for free on a wiki. Phil has commented that he would have less OGC available per product if something like this happened. A number of other publishers agreed with him. OGC will be crippled and obscured so that it's difficult to post it.I've said it, someone else said it...some publishers are putting outside constraints on the license and believe that they can control who uses their OGC and how with this outside pressure of making us all think the market will go south because of an OGC Wiki. The wiki itself won't cause the industry to fold, the poll seemed fairly clear that most people would keep buying things they want to buy, even if some of it is free in the wiki. The publishers themselves will try to bring the market down by creating less innovative content because they don't want their open content to be open. I'm guessing a few will claim that sales have gone so far down they need to double prices to stay in business, product prices will be jacked up to a new all time high even though they have no little OGC in them. Then the zombies will come, eat our brains, and we all roll up new GC (gamer characters) and start the process over again when 4e comes out minus an OGL.</blockquote>

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