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<blockquote data-quote="seskis281" data-source="post: 4867473" data-attributes="member: 41593"><p>Fair enough. </p><p> </p><p>But that means everyone associated with the business, including yourself as a publisher, needs to give "facts without interpretation?" My own experience (and this is just MY opinion lol based on submissions, etc.) is that the 3-5 cent per word is pretty accurate for RPG writing - which is different from the 6-9 cents one might get from fiction writing for magazines. Did James perhaps overemphasize with a statement like "10 to 20 times?" probably - so note that and say I think he's wrong on this here.</p><p> </p><p>But as to "responsibility of the authority," why does this apply to a small, one-man co. and blog differently than to larger entities? His only "responsibility" is to his customers, so if he's saying things he wants with an agenda towards making knocks at other companies, heh - well, that happens all the time - many representing WotC and many other companies give interviews or post things that are clearly meant to make knocks at competitors - this is called pushing the product and competing - nothing wrong with it and certainly expected - doesn't make them bad or good, right or wrong, just the nature of competing business - should we criticize and say "don't trust Mike Mearls or Scott Rouse!!" because they don't release sales specifics to back up assertions that 4e is doing better than 3e? Of course not, because we assume the nature of the biz and that they're gonna stand up for the product. If it's true then all the good for them and the market, if not, the market will determine a change or course-correction in the future.</p><p> </p><p>Same thing with James's assertions - time will prove him right, wrong, or somewhere in the middle....</p><p> </p><p>The RN and Lawyer comparisons are a bit problematic - yes, a lawyer can be disbarred for that - if he is in the process of acting in a contracted way as a lawyer. If a lawyer gives some bad info over a couple of beers or just venting on his own.... rambling on a blog is just venting personal feelings, and god help us if we start saying "you have the responsibility of not saying anything on your OWN site that might offend me."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seskis281, post: 4867473, member: 41593"] Fair enough. But that means everyone associated with the business, including yourself as a publisher, needs to give "facts without interpretation?" My own experience (and this is just MY opinion lol based on submissions, etc.) is that the 3-5 cent per word is pretty accurate for RPG writing - which is different from the 6-9 cents one might get from fiction writing for magazines. Did James perhaps overemphasize with a statement like "10 to 20 times?" probably - so note that and say I think he's wrong on this here. But as to "responsibility of the authority," why does this apply to a small, one-man co. and blog differently than to larger entities? His only "responsibility" is to his customers, so if he's saying things he wants with an agenda towards making knocks at other companies, heh - well, that happens all the time - many representing WotC and many other companies give interviews or post things that are clearly meant to make knocks at competitors - this is called pushing the product and competing - nothing wrong with it and certainly expected - doesn't make them bad or good, right or wrong, just the nature of competing business - should we criticize and say "don't trust Mike Mearls or Scott Rouse!!" because they don't release sales specifics to back up assertions that 4e is doing better than 3e? Of course not, because we assume the nature of the biz and that they're gonna stand up for the product. If it's true then all the good for them and the market, if not, the market will determine a change or course-correction in the future. Same thing with James's assertions - time will prove him right, wrong, or somewhere in the middle.... The RN and Lawyer comparisons are a bit problematic - yes, a lawyer can be disbarred for that - if he is in the process of acting in a contracted way as a lawyer. If a lawyer gives some bad info over a couple of beers or just venting on his own.... rambling on a blog is just venting personal feelings, and god help us if we start saying "you have the responsibility of not saying anything on your OWN site that might offend me." [/QUOTE]
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