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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheFindus" data-source="post: 5446525" data-attributes="member: 75791">I do not know what you are trying to say here besides stating the obvious. The people at WotC have to make the business decisions. At the time they work there. And their decisions influence the decisions other people working at WotC have to make at some later point in time.I know they wanted the OGL and thought it was a great idea. But in my opinion they only made more money through the OGL if 1. that would have been their only option of giving other companies the right to use the 3rd edition material without being able to stop them from using that material at some later point,2. a OGL product published by another company was the reason why somebody bought WotC products that would not otherwise been purchased.I claim that they could have given other companies the right to use the material with a time limit, a cancellation time frame if you will ("you have to stop using our rules in 3 years").I also claim that people jumped on the 3rd edition train because they were tired of the old rules, the 3rd edition rules were good and people liked them. The content was there, support through the magazines was stable and campaigns like Eberron were a huge success. I would therefore guess that the amount of people who only wanted to play with the product of a third party publisher or otherwise not play 3rd edition at all is very limited.</blockquote>