Is Wizards of the Coast really canceling the OGL?

[Prosperum]

Now, this news hasn't been confirmed yet, but it looks like WotC is seriously considering canceling the 3.0/3.5 OGL and replacing it with one that would take as much as a 25% cut of everything major 3rd-party publishers make on RPG products.

This includes Pathfinder 2e, because it includes the 1.0a OGL on page 638.

They seem to be trying to cancel and replace the 3.5e OGL with something very similar to the truly awful 4e license that nobody used (now updated with provisions that screw Foundry, Roll20, FantasyGrounds, and anybody trying to make virtual tabletops or other online tools).

Pushback might make them reconsider, but I'm worried that the final decision would rest with lawyers at Hasbro who couldn't give two damns about RPGs and basically consider Paizo, Kobold Press, and Green Ronin as pirates and parasites.

Could Paizo still produce content for 2e if they had to fork over 25% of everything they made off 2e? I haven't heard anything from the Paizo devs but this sounds terrible.

[Lord Fyre]

Yes!
The tentacles continue to expand!

[Kobold Catgirl]

We should probably avoid making duplicate threads. And if it actually happens, no, this would kill basically everyone but Wizards of the Coast.

[Prosperum]

This is more about the question of how it affects 2e specifically, though. 2e is considerably more different from 3.0/3.5 than PF1e is, to the point that I'm not sure why they needed to include it in 2e.

PF1e would never have been successful if it hadn't been as close as possible to 3.5, but 2e was intended to be a major overhaul rather than minor tweaks.

[Kobold Catgirl]

The other thread concerns the entire issue, including PF1 and PF2.

[Ravingdork]

There are a bunch of threads? This is the only one regarding this issue that I've seen so far.

Also, here's an informative article that goes into some detail on the matter.

*Runs off to hunt for the other threads*

[Kobold Catgirl]

I linked the other thread, RD.