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WotC Names 10 "Adepts" On Their DMs Guild Store
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<blockquote data-quote="skerritthegreen" data-source="post: 7721546" data-attributes="member: 70203"><p>Addressing the earlier comment about having authors post for some amount of money besides for free or PWYW, there are some really good reasons for that. </p><p></p><p>1) Free or PWYW really messes up all the tracking metrics and makes it hard what to make of a product. Either its AMAZING since it has 100,000 downloads, or its crap cause only 25 paid for it. It does a disservice to the author and makes it hard to filter them as the number of authors on the DMsGuild gets bigger and bigger. It also makes the star system statistically sketchy. You have a 4.3 rating! Gratz, but you only have four people who ranked out of the 100,000 that downloaded. People seem more likely to rank when they pay something. </p><p></p><p>2) Having a price puts a value the work. If its free, its too easy to post something that's not great (as an author) or not care when it sucks when you didn't pay anything (as a consumer). If it costs something, even a quarter, the consumer is more likely to make a comment and the author is more likely respond with an update (or even spend a little more time on it at the start). That is something we definitely watch. </p><p></p><p>3) WOTC (and lots of people in the industry) really want the author and the audience to value the work of our authors. Right now the industry generally pays very low on average. It makes it pretty much impossible for it to be your job unless you like near poverty. As someone who freelances for a lot of companies (in addition to a "normal" full-time job), WOTC actually pays the best I've seen (there are some others who are decent as well) and I think that having people getting used to paying something for quality is a step in the right direction to helping authors out. It only works of course if the work is good, but that is something else this program should help promote as it draws attention to some of the talented folks on the DMsGuild.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skerritthegreen, post: 7721546, member: 70203"] Addressing the earlier comment about having authors post for some amount of money besides for free or PWYW, there are some really good reasons for that. 1) Free or PWYW really messes up all the tracking metrics and makes it hard what to make of a product. Either its AMAZING since it has 100,000 downloads, or its crap cause only 25 paid for it. It does a disservice to the author and makes it hard to filter them as the number of authors on the DMsGuild gets bigger and bigger. It also makes the star system statistically sketchy. You have a 4.3 rating! Gratz, but you only have four people who ranked out of the 100,000 that downloaded. People seem more likely to rank when they pay something. 2) Having a price puts a value the work. If its free, its too easy to post something that's not great (as an author) or not care when it sucks when you didn't pay anything (as a consumer). If it costs something, even a quarter, the consumer is more likely to make a comment and the author is more likely respond with an update (or even spend a little more time on it at the start). That is something we definitely watch. 3) WOTC (and lots of people in the industry) really want the author and the audience to value the work of our authors. Right now the industry generally pays very low on average. It makes it pretty much impossible for it to be your job unless you like near poverty. As someone who freelances for a lot of companies (in addition to a "normal" full-time job), WOTC actually pays the best I've seen (there are some others who are decent as well) and I think that having people getting used to paying something for quality is a step in the right direction to helping authors out. It only works of course if the work is good, but that is something else this program should help promote as it draws attention to some of the talented folks on the DMsGuild. [/QUOTE]
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