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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8681944" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I tend to agree with your interpretation. I just posted it so that the relevant text was there (sometimes in these discussions people start debating other peoples interpretations of texts or a posts, so I thought it would be beneficial to repost the original text). I do think it is a little unclear as you say, and I think there is a gray area here as well. You could argue for example that a publishers blog page is always promoting books they have on Drivethru (i.e. any time you post about anything it is feeding the overall marketing) or that their twitter account is always doing so, and if they interpreted their own guidelines very broadly, it might be applies to any post a publisher makes on a platform that is part of their marketing efforts. But I don't see any evidence that this is how they are intending the guidelines to be used. I think it would be good if they revised it though for clarity. </p><p></p><p>Also because I think a little mercy on this one would be a good idea. I can easily foresee something like a publisher making an appeal to a political issue that heats up and they feel emotional over, and then mention one of their books or say they will be donating all proceedings from that book to a cause (we saw that with some recent events in US politics for example). I wouldn't want to see those individuals punished by Drivethru for that. </p><p></p><p>I think the bigger problem with this one is it basically says you can't make an overtly political RPG. I am not sure that is a good thing for anyone (one any side of the political aisle). Because it isn't just about the marketing: it says the work itself in the intro. Personally I am not into RPGs that are trying to advance political agendas. Just my opinion and preference. But I think that is a valid form of expression in the medium and probably important to a lot of creators and fans to have. It doesn't seem like they are enforcing this, so maybe it is just weirdly phrased, and not really the guidelines. But if that is the case, again, I think changing the wording would go a long way to help clarify what is allowed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8681944, member: 85555"] I tend to agree with your interpretation. I just posted it so that the relevant text was there (sometimes in these discussions people start debating other peoples interpretations of texts or a posts, so I thought it would be beneficial to repost the original text). I do think it is a little unclear as you say, and I think there is a gray area here as well. You could argue for example that a publishers blog page is always promoting books they have on Drivethru (i.e. any time you post about anything it is feeding the overall marketing) or that their twitter account is always doing so, and if they interpreted their own guidelines very broadly, it might be applies to any post a publisher makes on a platform that is part of their marketing efforts. But I don't see any evidence that this is how they are intending the guidelines to be used. I think it would be good if they revised it though for clarity. Also because I think a little mercy on this one would be a good idea. I can easily foresee something like a publisher making an appeal to a political issue that heats up and they feel emotional over, and then mention one of their books or say they will be donating all proceedings from that book to a cause (we saw that with some recent events in US politics for example). I wouldn't want to see those individuals punished by Drivethru for that. I think the bigger problem with this one is it basically says you can't make an overtly political RPG. I am not sure that is a good thing for anyone (one any side of the political aisle). Because it isn't just about the marketing: it says the work itself in the intro. Personally I am not into RPGs that are trying to advance political agendas. Just my opinion and preference. But I think that is a valid form of expression in the medium and probably important to a lot of creators and fans to have. It doesn't seem like they are enforcing this, so maybe it is just weirdly phrased, and not really the guidelines. But if that is the case, again, I think changing the wording would go a long way to help clarify what is allowed. [/QUOTE]
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