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<blockquote data-quote="King_Stannis" data-source="post: 175245" data-attributes="member: 324">fair enough...but let me throw a hypothetical at you. what if monte cook walked out of the rpg business. i have no figures to back it up, but i'd say that if anyone was successful in this biz it would probably be him. what if you are a huge monte fan. you buy his products, everyone buys his products. he is, we would term &quot;a success&quot;. now suppose, despite all of this support, monte stops making games one day because he is burnt out or he becomes a devotee of jack chick. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; now you, i and just about everyone else have done everthing we could to make him as successful as anyone in the biz. but on a whim he quits. does monte then &quot;owe&quot; us anything? of course he doesn't. you can support someone all you want, and that's great. but just know that it's not a two way street. your loyalty could be spurned for reasons that have nothing to do with economics. and suppose by supporting him, you didn't support a young rpg writer at &quot;company z&quot;, who really showed promise with an adventure he had written. but, in making an economic choice, you opted to support someone you were familiar with and someone you wanted to make &quot;happy&quot;. young writer concludes that if you aren't already &quot;a name&quot;, you might as well not even waist your time in this business. he quits and pursues a career in the computer industry. now the industry is short his talent, too, because you aren't making decisions of cost vs. value as a consumer. you are allowing your heart to make decisions for you.to me, that is what happens when you don't judge each individual product on it's own merits. by blindly supporting a product because of its author - despite it's utility to you, someone else may get hurt (economically) by your decision.i'm not saying your wrong for doing what you do in supporting your favorite rpg &quot;personalities&quot;. occasionally, i do it myself. however, i think your wrong in assuming that it is as simple as:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; a)&nbsp; you buy rpg designer &quot;x&quot;'s stuff&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; b)&nbsp; rpg designer is happy&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; c)&nbsp; rpg designer will continue making stuff as long as &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; you continue to buy it.other variable enter into it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="King_Stannis, post: 175245, member: 324"] fair enough...but let me throw a hypothetical at you. what if monte cook walked out of the rpg business. i have no figures to back it up, but i'd say that if anyone was successful in this biz it would probably be him. what if you are a huge monte fan. you buy his products, everyone buys his products. he is, we would term "a success". now suppose, despite all of this support, monte stops making games one day because he is burnt out or he becomes a devotee of jack chick. ;) now you, i and just about everyone else have done everthing we could to make him as successful as anyone in the biz. but on a whim he quits. does monte then "owe" us anything? of course he doesn't. you can support someone all you want, and that's great. but just know that it's not a two way street. your loyalty could be spurned for reasons that have nothing to do with economics. and suppose by supporting him, you didn't support a young rpg writer at "company z", who really showed promise with an adventure he had written. but, in making an economic choice, you opted to support someone you were familiar with and someone you wanted to make "happy". young writer concludes that if you aren't already "a name", you might as well not even waist your time in this business. he quits and pursues a career in the computer industry. now the industry is short his talent, too, because you aren't making decisions of cost vs. value as a consumer. you are allowing your heart to make decisions for you. to me, that is what happens when you don't judge each individual product on it's own merits. by blindly supporting a product because of its author - despite it's utility to you, someone else may get hurt (economically) by your decision. i'm not saying your wrong for doing what you do in supporting your favorite rpg "personalities". occasionally, i do it myself. however, i think your wrong in assuming that it is as simple as: a) you buy rpg designer "x"'s stuff b) rpg designer is happy c) rpg designer will continue making stuff as long as you continue to buy it. other variable enter into it. [/QUOTE]

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