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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lrsach01" data-source="post: 5007687" data-attributes="member: 18397">It's not a problem running a contest... but notice that they fail to inform the buyer of the contest content. How much of the item is written by professionals and how much by novices? Granted, this is STILL no guarantee of excellence... but you generally get what you pay for. And just because others do it, doesn't make it right. Crafty Games doesn't get a pass for being the most recent to "build an obvious copy/homage/counterfeit/tribute/spoof of a genre." Be up front! Be honest! If you can't make money at it, give it away! Or at LEAST give the contest winners use of their work under the OGL. Under full disclosure (since I feel it is implied I am grumpy about this topic because I feel slighted by the company) I've never participated in any contest from them nor have I ever purchased an item from Crafty Games. I just feel full disclosure is the least a company can do. If a contest is held to add content to a product, then declare it in the copy for that product. Announce it on the cover. Or is there a reason not to?Seriously, I'm not on some wind mill tilting crusade.... but people SHOULD know what they are buying. Cheers! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>