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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 4116648" data-attributes="member: 4090">I don't know that I'd say this is the first major example- IMO, the announcement of 4E was the first major example. There have been other demonstrations of it along the road to Paizo's announcement as well.And I think that's right on the mark. I understand why WotC decided it was more financially viable to release a new edition- they're a business after all. A lot of the changes that came about, though, seem to me to be fairly transparently an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle and regain control of IP (or, in many/most cases, create new IP to have control of). I think that the OGL was put in place by people who (in the wake of the near demise of D&D under the waning days of TSR) saw a need to keep the potential for keeping the system alive, and created it in as much of a sense of altruism as is possible in business, but that same system- under different hands and eyes- was seen as possibly hindering profits, and a new version of it was needed/desired. That's where the fractioning came in, IMO.I can't say I'm surprised by the negative reaction to Paizo's announcement by some, any more than I'm surprised by the negative reaction to 4E by some. I do think that Paizo- like WotC- is doing what they perceive as in their best interests, and wish them the best of luck. (and, in the interest of full disclosure, as someone who is not interested in what I've seen of 4E- at least most of it- I'm very excited that Paizo is taking the OGL ball and running with it, just as other publishers have done in their own various ways.)</blockquote>

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