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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vampyrknight" data-source="post: 1740680" data-attributes="member: 18703">A Hearty Thanks to ENWorld and All Its WorkMorrus's rant is, quite simply, eye opening.  As a gamer and purchaser of d20 system products, I've long used this site as a way of to determine what products I buy and what to look forward to.  Almost on a daily basis (hurricanes not withstanding), there is some news of interest to look at.  Though I don't normally post too often on the messageboards (and barely can give them a glance with what must be done in a single day), when I have taken a look at them, there is a wealth of information, humor, and help, showing just how large this community is (and though large, yes, WotC still can't boast of the impressive size compared to ENWorld).What this site is to many of us can't really be expressed in words.  That publishers and game designers (Monte Cook and the others Morrus mentioned not included, of course <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) have become what they hated and see ENWorld and the valuable service it provides them only as a service Morrus should have to pay them for is absolutely despicable.  They have forgotten what makes any business, really, the customer, the very people that frequent sites like this.Morrus has every right to rant on this.  Not only do some countries have laws protecting Free Speech (the U.S. even has a Constitutional Amendment for that purpose) but what these companies have done demands a wider response than just placating them and their fantastically large egos.  They need their eyes opened to just the problem they're creating by not supporting sites like this and further, by overlooking their customers.  That is, simply put, not good business.It is the customers who buy the products and customers who continue to buy future products.  Customers buy products based on what others say about them but also based on the company producing it.  I tend to buy WotC stuff simply because, once upon a time, they did put out good products and some still are good.  Yes, they've gone the route of big business, stepping on the little guy and thinking they will always be around, not caring about who's buying their products because they think someone will just because it's them who produced it.  Alienating the consumers through that thinking only ends up causing companies to close down or other drastic measures.In closing, I'd just like to add in one thing: Morrus, as already expressed on the boards hundreds of times before, this site and your work are invaluable to the gaming community and to d20 gamers specifically.  If the publishers and game designers don't see this, then it is there loss.  The fans support your site whole heartedly.VampyrKnight</blockquote>

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