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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5025789" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I think you're giving far too much weight to the number of individuals who have moved onto alternate game systems, but would come into the 4E fold if only they had additional Paizo 4E adventures or Necromancer Games fluff to play with.</p><p></p><p>From all the indications I've seen here on ENWorld... those fans who aren't playing 4E fall primarily into two camps... those who just don't like the game of the new addition itself (and who wouldn't play it regardless of who produced product for it - WotC or otherwise)... and those who only played 3PP 3rd edition stuff, and thus won't play 4E so long as WotC itself is the only maker of product. And of those people, if WotC ever did make their GSL as open as the OGL had been... those folks would go back to playing the 3PP 4E products exclusively (because of some internal beliefs of the quality of those companies over what WotC has).</p><p></p><p>Long story short, I think many 3PPs and their products most certainly <em>did</em> compete with WotC in many cases and splinter the fanbase... which is why they chose to make the GSL as restrictive as they did. They could still claim that their game was "open" to other publishers, but they could also make sure that the game platform would be less likely to be inundated with piles upon piles supplements that would intrude upon territory they eventually were planning on creating and marketing to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5025789, member: 7006"] I think you're giving far too much weight to the number of individuals who have moved onto alternate game systems, but would come into the 4E fold if only they had additional Paizo 4E adventures or Necromancer Games fluff to play with. From all the indications I've seen here on ENWorld... those fans who aren't playing 4E fall primarily into two camps... those who just don't like the game of the new addition itself (and who wouldn't play it regardless of who produced product for it - WotC or otherwise)... and those who only played 3PP 3rd edition stuff, and thus won't play 4E so long as WotC itself is the only maker of product. And of those people, if WotC ever did make their GSL as open as the OGL had been... those folks would go back to playing the 3PP 4E products exclusively (because of some internal beliefs of the quality of those companies over what WotC has). Long story short, I think many 3PPs and their products most certainly [I]did[/I] compete with WotC in many cases and splinter the fanbase... which is why they chose to make the GSL as restrictive as they did. They could still claim that their game was "open" to other publishers, but they could also make sure that the game platform would be less likely to be inundated with piles upon piles supplements that would intrude upon territory they eventually were planning on creating and marketing to. [/QUOTE]
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