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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 6540957" data-attributes="member: 467">The reality is probably quite the opposite. Magic drives many, many more people into the stores. The Adventurers League and other Organized Play stuff is intended, I think, to make those Magic buyers aware of D&amp;D and pique their curiosity, possibly drawing some into the player/customer base.It is not about copying the strategy, it is about having a real world example that WotC is simply wrong in its belief that an open rules set and accessible PDFs are damaging to an RPG's sales. Whether it is WotC or Hasbro, there is a cultural problem in the company regarding electronic access to the game. Maybe they feel burned by Paizo. Maybe they are convinced DDI is still viable. Maybe they want to monetize the brand in such a way as to sell off licenses rather than give things away. In any case, they are not serving their customers by holding back on both an OGL and PDFs and some people will throw up their hands and walk away because of it, and others will feel justified to pirate books because of it. Even if those people represent a tiny minority, it is still a loss because *not* having an OGL or PDFs isn't going to draw any new customers who would not otherwise have appeared.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 6540957, member: 467"] The reality is probably quite the opposite. Magic drives many, many more people into the stores. The Adventurers League and other Organized Play stuff is intended, I think, to make those Magic buyers aware of D&D and pique their curiosity, possibly drawing some into the player/customer base. It is not about copying the strategy, it is about having a real world example that WotC is simply wrong in its belief that an open rules set and accessible PDFs are damaging to an RPG's sales. Whether it is WotC or Hasbro, there is a cultural problem in the company regarding electronic access to the game. Maybe they feel burned by Paizo. Maybe they are convinced DDI is still viable. Maybe they want to monetize the brand in such a way as to sell off licenses rather than give things away. In any case, they are not serving their customers by holding back on both an OGL and PDFs and some people will throw up their hands and walk away because of it, and others will feel justified to pirate books because of it. Even if those people represent a tiny minority, it is still a loss because *not* having an OGL or PDFs isn't going to draw any new customers who would not otherwise have appeared. [/QUOTE]

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