Psychic Warrior
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Wow. Almost 77% of responses say that personal opinions either have lost sales of are a contributing factor. I'm rather surprised at that as I don't think the pervious poll was quite so heavily weighted that way.
Do Personal Opinions Of Authors, Etc Dissuade You From Purchases?
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Mercule
Adventurer
They are, theoretically, a factor. But no sales have been lost to me due to politics, religion, etc. There are a couple of people who immediately come to mind as being pretty far removed from me, politically, whose books I'd happily buy -- because they make good stuff. But, someone who was really off the deep end might prompt me to pass, too. If you give heavily to the KKK (as an example that is hopefully not controversial), you aren't likely to get my money.
It's more someone being a complete jerk that'd make me want to pass on their goods. There have been a few of these. Fortunately, their products sucked, too.
It's more someone being a complete jerk that'd make me want to pass on their goods. There have been a few of these. Fortunately, their products sucked, too.
Eosin the Red
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A "no, but... " answer for me. There are people out there who I refuse to support with my money BUT none of them work in RPGs. IMO, it is ok to have any reasonable opinion about anything; it is the rabid evangelizing of said opinion that turns me off to people/products.
Yes: Valar Project because I won't support pornographers but no to different political beliefs.
I have fairly strongly held political opinions but the political opinions of others never bother me. I actually admire people who are consistent in their beliefs; whether or not I agree with those beliefs is irrelevant. Most of my favourite political biographies are of politicians whose beliefs conflict with my own (and I don't want my beliefs reinforced, I want them challenged).
I have fairly strongly held political opinions but the political opinions of others never bother me. I actually admire people who are consistent in their beliefs; whether or not I agree with those beliefs is irrelevant. Most of my favourite political biographies are of politicians whose beliefs conflict with my own (and I don't want my beliefs reinforced, I want them challenged).
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Not yet, but Michael Crichton and Axl Rose have pushed it at times.
There are exactly two people in the RPG industry that I refuse to give my money to. If a product has their name on it, I absolutely refuse to purchase it, no matter how good it might be (usually they're not, so I'm not missing out). It doesn't have anything to do with politics or personal beliefs. These people are just, IMO, ![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
s and I don't want to give them my money.
s and I don't want to give them my money.JustaPlayer
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Jim Ward drove me away from any product his company could ever put out. Now Fast Forward is defunct and I'm happy. 
Sorry for all the people he never paid though.
Sorry for all the people he never paid though.
frankthedm
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I had no quams with thier material but would never buy from them because my gaming budget and my pron budget are two seperate things that only are allowed to meet when paying my internet bill.Imruphel said:
I commend you.
I'm more likely to base my decisions not to buy a product on the company than the author, and more likely to base a decision to buy a product based on author or system than company.
To explain: I buy a lot of RPG product, and purchased several Mongoose products for D20 early on...and was universally dissapointed. Most of those products have now been sold off at Half-Price Books, and I stopped buying anything Mongoose put out- except their Paranoia XP products which have proven to be excellent IMHO. At this point, Mongoose would have to give me a D20 product for me to own it, while I generally pre-order their Paranoia books. Green Ronin (along with AEG and Atlas) products, OTOH, have proven to be generally useful and well written to me, so I tend to buy more of their stuff than other publishers. That doesn't mean I buy everything they publish, only that for which I percieve a need. If Green Ronin, WotC and Mongoose put out a D20 sourcebook on a given topic, WotC would be the marginal front runner, Green Ronin would get serious consideration, and I wouldn't touch the Mongoose product unless it came highly reccommended from a trustworthy source.
Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell have a virtual free pass from me. I'll buy almost anything they produce. Meanwhile, I can't think of a single rpg designer who has offended me so much that I drop their products like hot coals.
To explain: I buy a lot of RPG product, and purchased several Mongoose products for D20 early on...and was universally dissapointed. Most of those products have now been sold off at Half-Price Books, and I stopped buying anything Mongoose put out- except their Paranoia XP products which have proven to be excellent IMHO. At this point, Mongoose would have to give me a D20 product for me to own it, while I generally pre-order their Paranoia books. Green Ronin (along with AEG and Atlas) products, OTOH, have proven to be generally useful and well written to me, so I tend to buy more of their stuff than other publishers. That doesn't mean I buy everything they publish, only that for which I percieve a need. If Green Ronin, WotC and Mongoose put out a D20 sourcebook on a given topic, WotC would be the marginal front runner, Green Ronin would get serious consideration, and I wouldn't touch the Mongoose product unless it came highly reccommended from a trustworthy source.
Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell have a virtual free pass from me. I'll buy almost anything they produce. Meanwhile, I can't think of a single rpg designer who has offended me so much that I drop their products like hot coals.
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