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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 8894002" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>Sooo.... When wil the Empire/WotC/Hasbro blow up their first rebel planet/company? If we're going with the SW theming here...</p><p></p><p>As for the Paizo ORC license, let's first see what/how/if that happens. All the good intentions in the world doesn't bend reality. And the assumption that such an ORC license will be 'safe' forever is also a bit... Naive, such a license will work, until it doesn't. When someone challenges it (like WotC is doing now) and actually wins (which might be a crapshoot). Underlying laws change, the general consensus changes, politics change, etc. It wouldn't surprise me at all that in 2045 we would have a similar 'crisis' because of reason xyz...</p><p></p><p>And how much impact the WotC/Hasbro OGL 1.1 change/enforcement will have on the RPG market depends on the big D&D centric influencers. If those move from D&D to something else due to the OGL 1.1 change/risk, then the damage is potentially huge, with D&D loosing a huge market unless they start pushing their own influencers and are able to get as much cloud as those. I do not like watching others play D&D on YouTube/Twitch, and have no real interest in those influencers, but I do recognize that much of D&Ds current popularity/influence is due to those influencers. Those channels are businesses by themselves, so decisions there will probably be done based on a bottom line, which is also quite difficult to gouge. How large are the groups there, purely due to D&D, purely due to the personalities playing, how many would leave is they kept playing D&D, how many would leave if they started playing something else, how much does WotC/Hasbro want for their use of D&D, etc...</p><p></p><p>Even if WotC/Hasbro rolls back their OGL shenanigans, 3rd party companies will probably start moving away from the OGL, the question is, would they risk another Open Source license? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 8894002, member: 725"] Sooo.... When wil the Empire/WotC/Hasbro blow up their first rebel planet/company? If we're going with the SW theming here... As for the Paizo ORC license, let's first see what/how/if that happens. All the good intentions in the world doesn't bend reality. And the assumption that such an ORC license will be 'safe' forever is also a bit... Naive, such a license will work, until it doesn't. When someone challenges it (like WotC is doing now) and actually wins (which might be a crapshoot). Underlying laws change, the general consensus changes, politics change, etc. It wouldn't surprise me at all that in 2045 we would have a similar 'crisis' because of reason xyz... And how much impact the WotC/Hasbro OGL 1.1 change/enforcement will have on the RPG market depends on the big D&D centric influencers. If those move from D&D to something else due to the OGL 1.1 change/risk, then the damage is potentially huge, with D&D loosing a huge market unless they start pushing their own influencers and are able to get as much cloud as those. I do not like watching others play D&D on YouTube/Twitch, and have no real interest in those influencers, but I do recognize that much of D&Ds current popularity/influence is due to those influencers. Those channels are businesses by themselves, so decisions there will probably be done based on a bottom line, which is also quite difficult to gouge. How large are the groups there, purely due to D&D, purely due to the personalities playing, how many would leave is they kept playing D&D, how many would leave if they started playing something else, how much does WotC/Hasbro want for their use of D&D, etc... Even if WotC/Hasbro rolls back their OGL shenanigans, 3rd party companies will probably start moving away from the OGL, the question is, would they risk another Open Source license? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me! [/QUOTE]
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