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<blockquote data-quote="occam" data-source="post: 7676604" data-attributes="member: 39815"><p>You should review your history. WotC, and TSR before them, used freelancers on a lot of products. Among many others, perhaps you've heard of Ed Greenwood, Keith Baker, Erik Mona, James Jacobs, or Jason Bulmahn, all of whom wrote for TSR/WoTC when they weren't employed there? And I'm not even getting into <em>Dragon</em> and <em>Dungeon</em>. I don't recall them ever being criticized for "not really writing their own books" before now.</p><p></p><p>This semantic argument over the meaning of the word "outsourcing" doesn't seem to be going anywhere. If what WotC is doing is outsourcing, then Paizo is also outsourcing their APs, adventures, in fact the bulk of their gaming materials, most of which isn't entirely designed and written by Paizo employees. And that's fine. I don't think the word used matters, unless it contributes to mistaken impressions about the work being done. And that's what Jeremy was trying to counter, this mistaken impression that WotC isn't "really writing their own books", in some way that's fundamentally different than what they or other gaming companies have done for a long time. WotC is exercising close editorial control over the materials they're "outsourcing", as they have for decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="occam, post: 7676604, member: 39815"] You should review your history. WotC, and TSR before them, used freelancers on a lot of products. Among many others, perhaps you've heard of Ed Greenwood, Keith Baker, Erik Mona, James Jacobs, or Jason Bulmahn, all of whom wrote for TSR/WoTC when they weren't employed there? And I'm not even getting into [i]Dragon[/i] and [i]Dungeon[/i]. I don't recall them ever being criticized for "not really writing their own books" before now. This semantic argument over the meaning of the word "outsourcing" doesn't seem to be going anywhere. If what WotC is doing is outsourcing, then Paizo is also outsourcing their APs, adventures, in fact the bulk of their gaming materials, most of which isn't entirely designed and written by Paizo employees. And that's fine. I don't think the word used matters, unless it contributes to mistaken impressions about the work being done. And that's what Jeremy was trying to counter, this mistaken impression that WotC isn't "really writing their own books", in some way that's fundamentally different than what they or other gaming companies have done for a long time. WotC is exercising close editorial control over the materials they're "outsourcing", as they have for decades. [/QUOTE]
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