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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8889590" data-attributes="member: 85555">Like you say, only time will tell. But it isn't just forums. And what I am seeing makes what happened with 4E pale in comparison (and that gave rise to Pathfinder). I could be wrong of course, the future is hard to predict, but what I am seeing online is everyone, over 90 percent of the hobby is united in its anger towards WOTC. And I am seeing people who seem very serious about not giving WOTC another dime. If you go to twitter, it is just post after post of anger and hatred towards WOTC (in the past when I have seen other kerfuffles in the hobby there are maybe a group of dedicated angry posters but it isn't so ubiquitous and a constant stream like it is now). You see it on every forum. But, importantly, it is also what I am hearing among the people I game with in real life. Also there are so many publishers who are doing this pretty much as a hobby (there must be thousands of OGL products on Drivethru). Those people, even though they make just a small amount of change in many cases, have devoted time, money, etc to putting their passion into the culture that emerged around OGL. They deeply invested in this and I think this isn't going to be like other periods of anger or controversy we have seen. This looks like it has legs to me. Also D&D can't rely on people who just participate in the brand by buying merchandise and watching movies. That is a fad. What keeps the game going are the people dedicated to playing it (and many of those people are online). Certainly there is a gulf between online gaming discussion and real life. And in 90 percent of cases where a controversy arises, I would agree with you (the combination of that, and the fact that it is usually a small but very vocal group online usually meant nothing really happened or changed). But here I don't think that is the case at all. I think they are going to lose a lot more than 5% (I think this could lead to another game taking D&D's place). But like you say, it does largely depend on how accurate that draft is.</blockquote>

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