Comments on: Episode 02 – OGL/d20 Panel at Gen Con http://thedigitalfront.com/2007/09/05/episode-02-ogld20-panel-at-gen-con/ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:18:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Daniel M. Perez http://thedigitalfront.com/2007/09/05/episode-02-ogld20-panel-at-gen-con/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Daniel M. Perez Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:19:20 +0000 http://thedigitalfront.com/2007/09/05/episode-02-ogld20-panel-at-gen-con/#comment-7 Clyde, thanks a lot for your comments; they are really good and bring up some great points. If you don't mind, I'm going to move them into the forums for a more thorough discussion. You can find the post and the rest of the conversation here: http://thedigitalfront.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=32#32 Clyde, thanks a lot for your comments; they are really good and bring up some great points. If you don’t mind, I’m going to move them into the forums for a more thorough discussion. You can find the post and the rest of the conversation here:
http://thedigitalfront.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=32#32

]]> By: Clyde L. Rhoer http://thedigitalfront.com/2007/09/05/episode-02-ogld20-panel-at-gen-con/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Clyde L. Rhoer Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:28:55 +0000 http://thedigitalfront.com/2007/09/05/episode-02-ogld20-panel-at-gen-con/#comment-6 Thanks for this show, it was very interesting. I found it intriguing that some of the folks who have been most rewarded by the very open market WotC created with third edition are the first ones to try to advocate various things that close markets, like setting up gatekeepers, or adding a charge to get the mark of saleability. I think wizards while perhaps well intentioned isn't examining this issue well. They obviously feel the previous set up helped them financially or they wouldn't be sticking with the open license. Trying to add controls for quality is just not understanding what drives a free market. In a free market, the market decides. Cost of entry is low, so the consumer has to consider their purchases. The stores that survived the order everything phase after 2000 are not going to repeat their mistake, I think that all these ideas are to fix something that isn't broken. Now if they wanted to have some kind of "these are good products" without oversight, they should create a Gleemax mark and use it in a similar way the Origins awards are placed on products, but let the users choose the products. I think what would be an interesting discussion is why did the mark become devalued, is it because there was a glut of material, or is it because their trademark requires a more restrictive license, thereby reducing the creative things that can be done with it? Also Daniel could you email me by taking "theory from the closet" squishing all the words together and appending an at gmail dot com? I want to talk to you about doing a future show with me. -Clyde Thanks for this show, it was very interesting. I found it intriguing that some of the folks who have been most rewarded by the very open market WotC created with third edition are the first ones to try to advocate various things that close markets, like setting up gatekeepers, or adding a charge to get the mark of saleability. I think wizards while perhaps well intentioned isn’t examining this issue well. They obviously feel the previous set up helped them financially or they wouldn’t be sticking with the open license. Trying to add controls for quality is just not understanding what drives a free market. In a free market, the market decides. Cost of entry is low, so the consumer has to consider their purchases. The stores that survived the order everything phase after 2000 are not going to repeat their mistake, I think that all these ideas are to fix something that isn’t broken.

Now if they wanted to have some kind of “these are good products” without oversight, they should create a Gleemax mark and use it in a similar way the Origins awards are placed on products, but let the users choose the products.

I think what would be an interesting discussion is why did the mark become devalued, is it because there was a glut of material, or is it because their trademark requires a more restrictive license, thereby reducing the creative things that can be done with it?

Also Daniel could you email me by taking “theory from the closet” squishing all the words together and appending an at gmail dot com? I want to talk to you about doing a future show with me.

-Clyde

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