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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8169193" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Exposure is certainly valuable, but exposure alone is not typically worth the work it’s used to pay for.</p><p></p><p>It’s been a group of friends playing a game together for that many years. The DM is the one who introduced the idea of monetizing it. If he wants people to do labor to help him grow his brand, he should be expected to compensate them for that labor.</p><p></p><p>Typically DMing isn’t a service, it’s a leisure activity. When it is done as a service (when “professional DMs” run games for pay), they are paid for it.</p><p></p><p>That is <em>an</em> issue. <em>Another</em> issue is that this DM apparently wants to try and profit off the extra work they’re expecting the players to do, and not compensating them for the value extracted from their labor.</p><p></p><p>That’s like saying an employer is doing their employees a service by giving them a job. The players aren’t asking the DM to run a streamed game for them and offering to pay him for it with exposure and ad revenue (which would be a pretty reasonable arrangement). The DM is telling the friends he has been playing with for years that he wants to stream their game to establish a brand for himself as a professional DM, and assigning them work to do outside of the game, in service of his brand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8169193, member: 6779196"] Exposure is certainly valuable, but exposure alone is not typically worth the work it’s used to pay for. It’s been a group of friends playing a game together for that many years. The DM is the one who introduced the idea of monetizing it. If he wants people to do labor to help him grow his brand, he should be expected to compensate them for that labor. Typically DMing isn’t a service, it’s a leisure activity. When it is done as a service (when “professional DMs” run games for pay), they are paid for it. That is [I]an[/I] issue. [I]Another[/I] issue is that this DM apparently wants to try and profit off the extra work they’re expecting the players to do, and not compensating them for the value extracted from their labor. That’s like saying an employer is doing their employees a service by giving them a job. The players aren’t asking the DM to run a streamed game for them and offering to pay him for it with exposure and ad revenue (which would be a pretty reasonable arrangement). The DM is telling the friends he has been playing with for years that he wants to stream their game to establish a brand for himself as a professional DM, and assigning them work to do outside of the game, in service of his brand. [/QUOTE]
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