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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6305399" data-attributes="member: 2525">Which is why I've said, repeatedly and with quite a bit of emphasis, that I am describing the perspective of WOTC, not the perspective of gamers or third parties.  I do not think the OGL was good FOR WOTC.  Even if they had come out with a new edition under the OGL, even if they had fully supported the OGL, it harms them overall in the very long term for several reasons.  For instance, they always have to compete with themselves, never get the full benefit of the money and resources they sink into research and development and playtesting, because competitors can always then turn around and publish their stuff without having to pay those R&D costs.  Another instance, the last edition will always still be supported so there is always less incentive to check out the new edition (even if it is better) and thus exacerbated fracturing of the community each time.  In the long term, the harms outweigh the benefits to WOTC of having an INDEFINITE OGL, under all circumstances.  It needed to end at some point, as the benefits to them are not indefinite, only the harms.</blockquote>