gleichman wrote:
> tussock wrote:
>> The harder they squeeze, the more will slip through their
>> fingers.
>
> If you really believed that, you wouldn't care what WotC does because to
> the end user it flatly doesn't matter.
Market segmentation hurts as each product has a smaller customer
base, interoperability helps as every product supports every other
product. This _obviously_ matters.
> But yet you're here claiming the sky is falling because WotC is
> following standard business practice instead of chasing open content
> butterflies.
Whose standard's that, dude? Feel free to pry my OS and newsclient
out of the headers, I can assure you they're the most functional I've
found.
Through what medium are we communicating, and how's it doing?
> Very amusing.
See, I agree they'll almost certainly do fine, being the 500lb
gorilla means they can sit where they want. I am however claiming that
they are missing the chance to do very much better.
> WotC will make their changes, D&D will continue to hold the lion's share
> of a shrinking market. The sky won't fall, but under no conditions will
> the hobby as you now know it grow significantly for the long term.
Very amusing. You know they're getting it wrong, you just refuse to
acknowledge that there are alternatives that might do better, because
it's "standard practice" to ignore them.
Ignoring the rather massive growth of this little open standards
based interoperable user-created thing ycleped betwixtubes. Growth, much.
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tussock
Zzzzzzzzzz... uh, wha? What the hell? I was sleeping, bugger off.
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