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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6305762" data-attributes="member: 2525">They have no choice now.&nbsp; You can use the existing one to replicate anything they can come up with that even vaguely resembles D&amp;D.&nbsp; So they always have to be the best at it, or else they fail horribly.&nbsp; Before, they could fail, but at least they never had to compete against themselves, their own intellectual property.&nbsp; Now, they always must be the best at using that intellectual property, or else they lose much bigger than they would have.They could get most of those benefits by using limited time frame OGLs for each edition. Ones that expire when they think they will move on from that edition, so they never have to compete against themselves indefinitely.&nbsp; Now, the genie is out of the bottle - they have no choice.And it's a very bad thing that essentially one ex-employee made a choice for the company years ago that impacts the company forever.&nbsp; However you look at it, some part of it always functions as a constraint on what they can do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6305762, member: 2525"] They have no choice now. You can use the existing one to replicate anything they can come up with that even vaguely resembles D&D. So they always have to be the best at it, or else they fail horribly. Before, they could fail, but at least they never had to compete against themselves, their own intellectual property. Now, they always must be the best at using that intellectual property, or else they lose much bigger than they would have. They could get most of those benefits by using limited time frame OGLs for each edition. Ones that expire when they think they will move on from that edition, so they never have to compete against themselves indefinitely. Now, the genie is out of the bottle - they have no choice. And it's a very bad thing that essentially one ex-employee made a choice for the company years ago that impacts the company forever. However you look at it, some part of it always functions as a constraint on what they can do. [/QUOTE]

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