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<blockquote data-quote="Zak S" data-source="post: 7722779" data-attributes="member: 90370"><p>I <em>never</em> said more mainstream publishers with legacy IP and impressive licenses were raking in the dough.</p><p></p><p>I'm asking why, with <strong><em>so</em></strong> many structural advantages over the littler guy, you aren't.</p><p></p><p>Because we're doing alright over here.</p><p></p><p>But more than that, I want to recognize how generous and engaged and thoughtful the fans have been in taking a chance on something like a Willy-Wonka D&D adventure that's being smeared online as some kind of secret perv project: they are the ones who made this possible, they're the ones who recognize when something is missing, when they're being underserved, when they see new talent.</p><p></p><p>James and Kiel and Jeff and Mike Evans couldn't just show up and make a decent thing and wrap it in a nice hardcover and expect a rave response: printing is cheap in 2017. We needed fans who realized that they had risked something real (in many cases, due to online backlash, very substantive damage to their means of livelihood, in other cases, simply quitting dayjobs just to write or draw games with absolutely no safety net) in order to bring them something more interesting and more humanly engaged than what you get when freelancers are paid by the word, and it's been gratifying after all these years to see it pay off.</p><p></p><p>We had a whole hall full of people shouting WE LOVE YOU JEFF--and that means something---it means that all the extra blood sweat and tears people put in can't just be reduced to "one more indie product". We have the attention of the people we made these things for--and that is what matters, because <strong>those </strong>are the people who will make the next generation of things.</p><p></p><p>And that's when it becomes a rising tide that lifts all boats--when people stop scrambling for magic tickets and jealously guarding them and start manufacturing them en masse and handing them over to anybody with energy and a good idea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zak S, post: 7722779, member: 90370"] I [I]never[/I] said more mainstream publishers with legacy IP and impressive licenses were raking in the dough. I'm asking why, with [B][I]so[/I][/B] many structural advantages over the littler guy, you aren't. Because we're doing alright over here. But more than that, I want to recognize how generous and engaged and thoughtful the fans have been in taking a chance on something like a Willy-Wonka D&D adventure that's being smeared online as some kind of secret perv project: they are the ones who made this possible, they're the ones who recognize when something is missing, when they're being underserved, when they see new talent. James and Kiel and Jeff and Mike Evans couldn't just show up and make a decent thing and wrap it in a nice hardcover and expect a rave response: printing is cheap in 2017. We needed fans who realized that they had risked something real (in many cases, due to online backlash, very substantive damage to their means of livelihood, in other cases, simply quitting dayjobs just to write or draw games with absolutely no safety net) in order to bring them something more interesting and more humanly engaged than what you get when freelancers are paid by the word, and it's been gratifying after all these years to see it pay off. We had a whole hall full of people shouting WE LOVE YOU JEFF--and that means something---it means that all the extra blood sweat and tears people put in can't just be reduced to "one more indie product". We have the attention of the people we made these things for--and that is what matters, because [B]those [/B]are the people who will make the next generation of things. And that's when it becomes a rising tide that lifts all boats--when people stop scrambling for magic tickets and jealously guarding them and start manufacturing them en masse and handing them over to anybody with energy and a good idea. [/QUOTE]
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