OGL-Gate & Mainstream Media: The Guardian Weighs In

With The Guardian picking up the story this morning, here's a list of media outlets covering the Open Gaming Licence controversy.

The initial story came from Gizmodo/iO9, which recieved a leaked copy of the OGL v1.1., and YouTube channel RollForCombat.

• The Guardian: ‘People are leaving the game’: Dungeons & Dragons fans revolt against new restrictions
• Vice: Dungeons and Dragons Is Jeopardizing Its Greatest Strength: Its Ubiquity
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Beware the Gifts of Dragons: How D&D’s Open Gaming License May Have Become a Trap for Creators
• Comic Book Resources: How New Changes to D&D's Open Gaming License Will Impact Other TTRPGs
• Forbes: What’s Happening With The Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License?
• Ars Technica: RPG fans irate as D&D tries to shut its “open” game license
• NME: D&D content creators outraged over licensing changes, demand the game remain “open”
• Polygon: D&D’s stricter licensing rules might impact some beloved RPGs
• Law Insider: Wizards of the Coast Open Game License
• Financial Times (behind paywall): Dungeons & Dragons & fear & loathing: When Wizards go rogue

 

[Steel_Wind]

That's a weird, badly-researched, and unhelpful article that addresses almost none of the genuine issues. And talking up defunct piracy sites as a demonstration of how innovative D&D fans are to pursue their hobby is ... certainly an interesting journalistic line to take.

ahem It's certainly not defunct, it's just mostly less visible now.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Maybe it’s a perspective thing, but my impression was always that the guardian was a more “serious and respectable” news organization

It absolutely is. One of the world's great Newspapers - and the UK's leading lefty newspaper of record.

 

[darjr]

CNBC

Dungeons & Dragons open game license update delayed following fan backlash

The attempt to create a new D&D OGL comes as Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast unit looks to capitalize on a surge in Dungeons & Dragons' popularity.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Ulfgeir]

Now you can also add the youtube-channel Legal Eagle

 

[ilgatto]

60 Minutes, 1985.

Never forget.

We were stronger than that, we are stronger than this, we are stronger than attacks on D&D in general, whether they come from within or without.

Wow.

Although we knew about Patricia Pulling and B.A.D.D. even here in the backwater lowlands, I don't think any of us have ever seen that clip, which I would classify as walking just on the wrong side of the line between barely veiled sensationalism and what 60 Minutes calls "investigative journalism".

Irritatingly, it does make me even more wrong with my 50 years.

Pretty close with my "50 years", though!

Liaisons Dangereuses

 

[TheSword]

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(Ignore all the portuguese, I'm to lazy to open google in english)

You’re joking right? This hasn’t dented Hasbro stock in the slightest.

 

[darjr]

Hasbro Just Tanked One Of Its Biggest Revenue Drivers - TheStreet

Slow response may have given competitors an opening.

www.thestreet.com

 

[darjr]

I don't think 4e dented hasbro stock either.

 

[darjr]

is The Street a big news outlet?

Hasbro Just Tanked One Of Its Biggest Revenue Drivers - TheStreet

Slow response may have given competitors an opening.

www.thestreet.com

 

[TheSword]

is The Street a big news outlet?

Hasbro Just Tanked One Of Its Biggest Revenue Drivers - TheStreet

Slow response may have given competitors an opening.

www.thestreet.com

Is the article telling us any information we don’t know already, or does it contain anything other than a brief summary of events? I’d love to know how they define or justify tanked… as I can’t see it anywhere in there. No figures. No sense of scale, sounds like a fair bit of hyperbole.

My point was that this incident hasn’t dented Hasbro’s stock. Quite probably because investors know that regaining control over the IP is good for the company.