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WotC Announces OGL 1.1 -- Revised Terms, Royalties, and Annual Revenue Reporting
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<blockquote data-quote="Bayushi_seikuro" data-source="post: 8867389" data-attributes="member: 7024851"><p>Here's my random speculation after skimming a bunch of the discussions going on: YMMV</p><p></p><p>Currently, Hasbro's got an issue with Magic and whether they're flooding the market to essentially print money. Shareholders are concerned.</p><p></p><p>They're going to have their own online platform. They probably want to drive traffic there and find a way to make money off it.</p><p></p><p>Given they've talked about 1D&D being backward-compatible, and given that the OGL is able to be used from any previous edition... I wonder if this talk about the royalties etc is just to bolster shareholder confidence. A way to say 'hey, here's a way that we're having residuals come to us.' New game stuffs will continue to be released, under new or old OGL - I don't feel anyone's going to be stifled. Personally, I felt at the time of the 3.x OGL that, largely, a lot of third-party materials and splatbooks were just... Not Good. The market got flooded and those companies ceased to be. I hope this won't be the case coming up.</p><p></p><p>On the talk of them seeing another company's financials.... I see why that may be objectionable to some people, but as long as that information is staying private, I don't see the harm. From their standpoint, I feel it's a way for them to really get real numbers on the 'health' of D&D, their main product, to really look at its profitability beyond what they make. Any business would be right to have someone they're going into business with look at their numbers and really do some forensic accounting on it - that's why there was an issue at Disney+ hiding costs and faking health by shunting things to appear on the Disney Channel first so the Channel eats the cost of it. That's why Peter Jackson had his lawsuit with New Line - they were 'paying' their own subsidiaries first and then claiming to him there was no revenue left to split.</p><p></p><p>I know it's a serious concern for ENWorld's publishing, for other people who hit that line, but again, it feels like, as we live in a content-driven age, a lot of these videos or posts out there seem to be out to just have discussions for page clicks. I hope I don't sound like I'm disparaging anyone's comments - I just come from an auditing background in a few industries, and currently work for a bank that's either always buying or merging with other banks.</p><p></p><p>Again, YMMV</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bayushi_seikuro, post: 8867389, member: 7024851"] Here's my random speculation after skimming a bunch of the discussions going on: YMMV Currently, Hasbro's got an issue with Magic and whether they're flooding the market to essentially print money. Shareholders are concerned. They're going to have their own online platform. They probably want to drive traffic there and find a way to make money off it. Given they've talked about 1D&D being backward-compatible, and given that the OGL is able to be used from any previous edition... I wonder if this talk about the royalties etc is just to bolster shareholder confidence. A way to say 'hey, here's a way that we're having residuals come to us.' New game stuffs will continue to be released, under new or old OGL - I don't feel anyone's going to be stifled. Personally, I felt at the time of the 3.x OGL that, largely, a lot of third-party materials and splatbooks were just... Not Good. The market got flooded and those companies ceased to be. I hope this won't be the case coming up. On the talk of them seeing another company's financials.... I see why that may be objectionable to some people, but as long as that information is staying private, I don't see the harm. From their standpoint, I feel it's a way for them to really get real numbers on the 'health' of D&D, their main product, to really look at its profitability beyond what they make. Any business would be right to have someone they're going into business with look at their numbers and really do some forensic accounting on it - that's why there was an issue at Disney+ hiding costs and faking health by shunting things to appear on the Disney Channel first so the Channel eats the cost of it. That's why Peter Jackson had his lawsuit with New Line - they were 'paying' their own subsidiaries first and then claiming to him there was no revenue left to split. I know it's a serious concern for ENWorld's publishing, for other people who hit that line, but again, it feels like, as we live in a content-driven age, a lot of these videos or posts out there seem to be out to just have discussions for page clicks. I hope I don't sound like I'm disparaging anyone's comments - I just come from an auditing background in a few industries, and currently work for a bank that's either always buying or merging with other banks. Again, YMMV [/QUOTE]
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