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<blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4135064" data-attributes="member: 62992"><p>Orcus; welcome to this debacle! I wish I could say I have achieved something, but I fear I haven't. Perhaps more people now know about this issue than having it hidden away on the OGL forums that most people don't read.</p><p></p><p>I am particularly sorry for 3PPs like yourself because you were clearlyas excited as I was about 4E and actually came out and openly supported 4E (unlike most others).</p><p></p><p>Reaper Steve; you need to do some more reading before making statements like this. Look at the front page of the 4E guide on EN world complied by Morrus. There you will find a very detailed press statement laying out WoTCs vision of the GSL.</p><p></p><p>They have completely failed to back up these promises so far and have missed every deadline. This has caused many 3PPs to opt not to support 4E and so, by trying to hold onto D&D, WoTC may in fact have played into the hands of Paizo and the other 3PPs who will now fracture D&D gamers into those who go via 3.75E and those who go with 4E. I suspect the former group will now include MANY more gamers than any market research suggests because this scenario could never have been envisaged at the time</p><p></p><p>A company that stays silent in the face of gamers and completely fails to engage with its market audience and that disregards their wishes. Where I have I heard that before? Wait, wasn't a company called TSR?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ydars, post: 4135064, member: 62992"] Orcus; welcome to this debacle! I wish I could say I have achieved something, but I fear I haven't. Perhaps more people now know about this issue than having it hidden away on the OGL forums that most people don't read. I am particularly sorry for 3PPs like yourself because you were clearlyas excited as I was about 4E and actually came out and openly supported 4E (unlike most others). Reaper Steve; you need to do some more reading before making statements like this. Look at the front page of the 4E guide on EN world complied by Morrus. There you will find a very detailed press statement laying out WoTCs vision of the GSL. They have completely failed to back up these promises so far and have missed every deadline. This has caused many 3PPs to opt not to support 4E and so, by trying to hold onto D&D, WoTC may in fact have played into the hands of Paizo and the other 3PPs who will now fracture D&D gamers into those who go via 3.75E and those who go with 4E. I suspect the former group will now include MANY more gamers than any market research suggests because this scenario could never have been envisaged at the time A company that stays silent in the face of gamers and completely fails to engage with its market audience and that disregards their wishes. Where I have I heard that before? Wait, wasn't a company called TSR? [/QUOTE]
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