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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alcamtar" data-source="post: 236433" data-attributes="member: 3842">If this had come along 10 years ago, I'd have jumped at it. Now I have a career and no real interest in getting into the "game industry"... it would be a major step down, and I have neither the time nor the need to moonlight. The only way I'd do it is if I were independently wealthy and didn't have to work -- then I'd design games all day for fun, even if I sold nothing. Or if the bottom fell out of what I'm doing now, maybe.Maybe, like Tolkien, I'll have my million-dollar idea. I'm not staking my career on it, and I really doubt it'll happen to me, but if it does, it's not for sale. I'd rather develop it and GIVE it away or leave it to my heirs. I'd want to do it right, do it for the art and for posterity. Besides, if I do ever have a Tolkien idea, I'm certain I don't have it now... but it'll build on ideas I do have now, so why give them away? If I do become famous for some game thing, I want it to be because of the quality of my creation, not because of someone's marketing muscle.Even if my idea is gold I'm not interested in a career change, and if it's only silver (marketable but not an art classic), I don't want to become a Greenwood -- someone who takes the credit/blame for a whole world which is 99% developed by someone else. I mean, it's a job, but I don't need a job. The guy had a great vision and is a skilled writer, but mostly he just gets blamed for Elminster.It's not a superiority thing, it's a quality/interest thing. I don't want to work on someone else's world, and I don't want creating to become a job/chore, or to have to deal with the business management side of things. Some people are complaining about snobbery; but what's wrong with wanting to do something for its own sake instead of for a career? I don't look down on professionals (except when they get too full of themselves and look down on me), and in fact I admire their discipline, but I'm pursuing a different path. There's nothing wrong with selling out, but there's nothing wrong with art either, even if nobody appreciates or wants my art. Do I think my entry would make it? No. Is this a sour grapes excuse? No. I thought about it and realized I just didn't want what they were offering.</blockquote>

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