trancejeremy
Adventurer
Even if you do get creative works, I'm not sure how WOTC wins.
Most gamers probably have a fixed entertainment budget. Are they going to spend it on WOTC products or third party stuff?
The theory behind d20 was they would sell more corebooks, but because many companies ditched the d20 license and went with just the OGL, there wasn't the need for the corebooks.
And I don't think there was any incentive to buy anything from WOTC besides the corebooks, because almost everything was either walled off or reprinted somehow if it was released as open content by them.
In theory, they wanted to use something like the Apple an iOS model, but in practice it was more like the old Atari 2600 one (which resulted in the crash)
Most gamers probably have a fixed entertainment budget. Are they going to spend it on WOTC products or third party stuff?
The theory behind d20 was they would sell more corebooks, but because many companies ditched the d20 license and went with just the OGL, there wasn't the need for the corebooks.
And I don't think there was any incentive to buy anything from WOTC besides the corebooks, because almost everything was either walled off or reprinted somehow if it was released as open content by them.
In theory, they wanted to use something like the Apple an iOS model, but in practice it was more like the old Atari 2600 one (which resulted in the crash)