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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 309185" data-attributes="member: 725">Re: Re: Three companies?No offense Twin, but whether or not they HAVE to follow the OGL is debateble, only way to set things straight is to go to court. The problem is that in the US right and wrong are decided by who has the most money, and the folks over at PcGen are piss poor in comperison to WotC. In other words they have no other option than accept every which way the wind blows...Again no offense, but to &quot;do things like this&quot; is a nessecity for WotC. You might not have noticed but WotC is currently nothing more than a house of cards that's trying to stay in the eye of the storm. On one side there's a lot of scrunity from big daddy Hasbro lately about how WotC runs it's business (anyone remember th bean pushers?). Then we have the global economic slump that's affecting everyone. And of course we have a fan base that's unpredictable at best. If WotC pulls a Homer in front of BD Hasbro they are pretty screwd, and pissing of a big piece of revenue is not the way to go about business.Some might say (and rightly so) that the online community is very small compared to the overall D&amp;D community. Maybe 5% of the entire customer base, but we are responsible for more than 10% of the revenue generated (a 10% drop in sales is going to get the attention of BD Hasbro). Also online fans are the people that spread the game and the people that are the links to the rest of the community (how many on here are just one of a group, the rest of the group often isn't online?).Now i really dig the guys and girls over at WotC that are gamers at heart, but i have this little problem with the bean pushers so to speak...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 309185, member: 725"] [b]Re: Re: Three companies?[/b] No offense Twin, but whether or not they HAVE to follow the OGL is debateble, only way to set things straight is to go to court. The problem is that in the US right and wrong are decided by who has the most money, and the folks over at PcGen are piss poor in comperison to WotC. In other words they have no other option than accept every which way the wind blows... Again no offense, but to "do things like this" is a nessecity for WotC. You might not have noticed but WotC is currently nothing more than a house of cards that's trying to stay in the eye of the storm. On one side there's a lot of scrunity from big daddy Hasbro lately about how WotC runs it's business (anyone remember th bean pushers?). Then we have the global economic slump that's affecting everyone. And of course we have a fan base that's unpredictable at best. If WotC pulls a Homer in front of BD Hasbro they are pretty screwd, and pissing of a big piece of revenue is not the way to go about business. Some might say (and rightly so) that the online community is very small compared to the overall D&D community. Maybe 5% of the entire customer base, but we are responsible for more than 10% of the revenue generated (a 10% drop in sales is going to get the attention of BD Hasbro). Also online fans are the people that spread the game and the people that are the links to the rest of the community (how many on here are just one of a group, the rest of the group often isn't online?). Now i really dig the guys and girls over at WotC that are gamers at heart, but i have this little problem with the bean pushers so to speak... [/QUOTE]

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