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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6305726" data-attributes="member: 2525">LOLwut?No, it does not.  It assumes one of the many many many companies that were supporting 3e, would simply continue to support it once WOTC stopped supporting it.  It does not assume all things are inevitable, just one fairly rationale thing which was already happening before Paizo even did it.  They were not even the first to market on this concept.OK, so we agree someone would have filled the gap.  It does not matter if they were as successful as Paizo was.  We're not talking about levels of success, we're talking about whether or not it makes things hard for WOTC. If they were only 25% as successful as Paizo, that's still 25% more of a drag on what they're trying to do than the zero that happens with almost every other company out there.  And this is something they have to deal with forever!  Again...100 years from now, on whatever edition they're on, they will STILL be dealing with this issue.  Some company could be twice as successful as Paizo in that time.  Heck, they can use the original OGL to replicate most of 12th edition and stomp WOTC in the year 2056! There was simply no need to make this thing last forever.  It's nonsensical to think the short term benefits they gained from giving away hugely valuable intellectual property forever were worth that cost.  It should have had some sort of expiration date.  Even Hong Kong had an expiration date!</blockquote>

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