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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerLurker" data-source="post: 8910803" data-attributes="member: 7031660">Cancelling accounts also creates a support ticket. (As does filing a complaint.) You're reading what you want to read.Admittedly it is unclear in that article and it does include those details in the same paragraph making it seem like they were talking about deletions.Especially as outright deleting accounts would be a stupid thing to do. You'd lose all your books you've paid for. And since you can't come back, there's no reason for WotC to make any changes. If you cancel, there's a way for them to get you to return...However, the support team is also understaffed AND was just returning for the two week holiday break. So a not insignificant number of those tickets were likely unrelated.People don't just go to court for no reason.Lawyers are expensive. Someone like Paizo isn't going to just sue on a whim to get brownie points with the community. They're not going to blow most of their profits for the year on lawyers unless they think it's absolutely necessary. If they weren't going to be able to sell their books, then absolutely. It's sue or go out of business. But since they'll likely have a goodly amount of time to update their unpublished books to ORC and still be able to publish existing books, then they have no reason to sue. It's not losing them any revenue, so there's no benefit to the lawsuit: even if the win, they're still out millions. WotC could destroy most 3PP for a variety of reasons without even trying. Kobold Press once released a book that heavily plagiarized the Dungeon Master's Guide. WotC could have destroyed them. But they didn't. Because the D&D team was friends with the head Kobold and knew it was an accident, and Kobold Press corrected the error. This is just baseless fear mongering. Quite the opposite. Feedback is not meaningless.Okay, feedback that is just "QQ don't remove the OGL 1.0a QQ" is meaningless. But feedback on the OGL 1.2 and it's final form is very meaningful, and good feedback can have real impact. There's lots of ways it can be improved, but no one is discussing them because they're rather whine about the 1.0a going away. WotC isn't stopping people from making Pathfinder 3PP. No one is "stifling" them.The simple reason is that no one is making PF2 3PP because they can make ten times as much money with a mediocre selling 5e 3PP. Dethroning the God-King of RPGs won't change how much money you can make for a Pathfinder 3PP. It will just mean that's all you can make, so you'll settle for the scraps instead of the feast. It doesn't help 3PP. It actually seriously hurts them, especially if it drives players to the many, many game systems that aren't released under an open license and don't support 3PP. Looking at the chart of top RPGs for the past few years (Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, G.I. Joe, Power Rangers, Fallout, Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk, Alien, Fate, Starfinder, Shadowrun, Vampire, Star Wars, Legend of the Five Rings, Star Trek) only four of those have an open gaming license.</blockquote>

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