How to lose trust and alienate customers, TTRPG edition
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WotC/Hasbro gave in...for now. OGL 1.0a left alone, newer stuff under one of the Creative Commons licenses.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons
They said they've gotten some 15,000 responses, most of which told them to stuff it.
Paizo's said they're going to keep going with their ORC license regardless.
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@Parody said in How to lose trust and alienate customers, TTRPG edition:
most of which told them to stuff it.
Something like 90% for each of the specific things they mentioned.
I fully expect them to put the new edition under some other license, but this is a win as far as I'm concerned. Still not planning to buy more stuff from them, but now it's just for the preexisting "it sucks" reason.
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@boomzilla If only there were some kind of competitor to D&D, which could be used as a good-enough drop-in replacement if, on the off chance, D&D somehow became unpalatable...
Sadly, the startup costs for making a new RPG are insurmountable. It's such an onerous task that nobody has even the slightest interest of doing it unless there's serious VC money being thrown at them.
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@PotatoEngineer Which is why development of my system is stalling, not enough venture capital. I should do it the swedish way and make a kickstarter to get money for development/release, then release my system and then immediately drop support for it and make another kickstarter for another system.
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@PotatoEngineer said in How to lose trust and alienate customers, TTRPG edition:
Sadly, the startup costs for making a new RPG are insurmountable. It's such an onerous task that nobody has even the slightest interest of doing it unless there's serious VC money being thrown at them.
True. This is why D&D, Vampire, and Cyberpunk are the only RPGs in existence.
There was an attempt to make a 4th RPG in the late '90s, but it quickly exhausted all existing capital, leading to the European financial collapse.
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@Gribnit said in How to lose trust and alienate customers, TTRPG edition:
This is why D&D, Vampire, and Cyberpunk are the only RPGs in existence.
The M72 LAW also counts.
