Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8906584" data-attributes="member: 86051">While I do think that you're right that certain high-ups currently at WotC probably won't give a fig about losing some subscriptions, that doesn't necessarily mean that they can do whatever the <s>hell</s> lamp they want and that they won't try to limit the damage done to their "brand" on some level.If you are referring to their recent statement, this may, indeed, give the impression that they "are willing to listen". However, so far, it appears that they are only going to do so in the form of a questionnaire, of which we know nothing. Much will depend on the questions in this questionnaire, their wording, what WotC is going to do with the information they get, and how they are going to react to it.I think that this "No" is for a large part the result of WotC still having said absolutely nothing about the possibility of allowing future 3PP publications to operate under the OGL 1.0/1.0a, which is a major - if not actually the main - concern for many of these 3PPs. And however people express themselves here - in anger, frustration, with reason, sarcasm, cynicism, or a sense of humor - I do believe that the gut-feeling many have that WotC is not going to back down where their statements on the OGL 1.0/1.0a so far are concerned, is correct.That remains to be seen. As far I have come to understand it, it would seem that there is a good case to be made against WotC killing the OGL 1.0/1.0a unilaterally, also in light of what seems to have been their intent (under different rule) at the time the original OGL was issued. As to the argument that 3PPs are going to lose that fight because money, I would hope that this will not affect a judge. Where you're right is that money can buy lawyers perhaps not very interested in the moral aspect of the case but in winning it at all costs. For now, I guess we'll have to wait for the questionnaire and see whether that allows for any kind of "talking to them".</blockquote>

Verification