Does a publisher/author's interaction here influence your purchases?

[Christoph the Magus]

With so many publishers printing so many products I really don't feel that I'm missing out by passing over anything written by GMSkarka. My game has been running along just fine for several years without his help/insight and I imagine that it will continue to do so. Now, if he works on D&D 4.0 I may be forced to rethink my position, until then, I'll continue to drop him back on the racks whenever I see him.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I have to go to the post office for some eBay stuff anyway. It'll probably ship tomorrow or Friday.

Don't suppose you'd be willing to ship mine then too, would you. My wife can't find anything on my X-mas list, so it looks like I'm going to have virtually no presents under the tree this year.

 

[DaveMage]

My wife can't find anything on my X-mas list, so it looks like I'm going to have virtually no presents under the tree this year.

E-bay is your (her) friend!

 

[Michael Silverbane]

I guess I'm coming to the conversation a bit late, as it's developed into some sort of a layout size problem betwixt publishy types, but I'm not going to let that stop me from getting in my word edge-wise... Or whatever...

I've had publishy interaction influence me positively, but not negatively... That is, something from a publisher or author might turn me on to a product that I wouldn't normally have bought or known about, but if I'm going to buy a book, I'm going to buy it regardless of who wrote or otherwise worked on the thing.

So... continue to be nice, and probably see my money. Or... continue to be a jerk and maybe see my money.

Later
silver

 

[tonym]

...You... however negotiated your contract at the time of settlement. ...You hadn't seemed upset at the negotiations. You acted politely. I figured things were a done deal.

Tensen, you seem like a nice guy, but you don't seem to understand something. When a guy is late paying a freelancer--especially more than a month late--the freelancer is totally justified in thinking the guy is a deadbeat.

See, when months and months pass without payment, a freelancer may despair of ever seeing a penny for their work. At this time, the freelancer may politely negotitate a lower fee in the hopes of seeing at least a little money for their work.

Tensen, the "politeness" shown by a freelancer asking for less money should never be interpreted as indicating that the freelancer is happy. Quite the opposite!

If any publisher is so late paying a freelancer that the freelancer wants to negotiate a lower rate, I suggest the publisher pay the guy in full, immediately. The freelancer thinks you are a deadbeat and will look for opportunities to tell other freelancers about your behavior. For years!

Heck, they'll work it into any thread they can. Like, for example, some years ago I did eight paintings for a RIFTS-related game and was never paid!

See?

Tony M

 

[kanithardm]

To everyone who says "yes": You guys suck and are killing the industry.

No wait, I mean that for the ones who said "no." The guys who say "yes" are all getting tickets to the next Interpol concert. I love you.

(Quick attempt at humor, now I sit back and watch the sales fallout. It's part of a larger experiment!)

Go buy Dark Harbor. Or a Counter Collection. Or gems and jewels and send them to my house.

Thanks!

- James

my answer was yes and here is aperfectly good example. I now know he is funny(or trys to be) and i like funny people, so i will have a positive outlook on his products. Or TheLe, he gives away FREE( can i stress this anymore i mean FREE) PDFs and whenever i go to a PDF store the first two publishers i look at are TheLeGames and EnWorld Publishing cuz well, they are ENWORLD Publishing.

 

[blargney the second]

I'd heard of Denizens of Avadnu, but frankly the Avadnu thing made me write it off as too setting specific.

Ditto. My first thought was, "I don't play a game set in Avadnu." A more generic title would have elicited more response from me. As it is, from what people have said in this thread, I'll have to look at the demo!

-blarg

 

[Darrin Drader]

E-bay is your (her) friend!

Yes (and she knows this), but it's too late in the game at this point.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Don't suppose you'd be willing to ship mine then too, would you. My wife can't find anything on my X-mas list, so it looks like I'm going to have virtually no presents under the tree this year.

To be fair, what I meant was on his site it says he ships on Saturdays. All I could imagine was the book sitting there past Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, waiting for a new Saturday.

For Christmas this year, I got a month's severence pay and cash from others, if I have anything on Christmas day besides gift certificates it'll probably be DDM, assuming my mother can figure out where to find them with her brief glance at the box.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Ditto. My first thought was, "I don't play a game set in Avadnu." A more generic title would have elicited more response from me. As it is, from what people have said in this thread, I'll have to look at the demo!

-blarg

Teling someone else I was buying it, they replied "what the heck is Avadnu?"
(to which I replied "how should I know, I don't have the book yet!")