Holy Cow! Wizards delegates...

[reddist]

Yeah, "payment" in product that I'm not interested in or won't use doesn't sound exciting at all, especially for the amount of time involved. And don't fool yourself, there is a LOT of time involved in this.

Now if they were offering CASH... that'd be a different story...Say per store visit or demo done? Give me some incentive to go out and do your dirty work!

-Reddist

 

[MerricB]

Meh. It looks like you get a bit of stuff from ten different games. I don't find that much interesting; the vast majority of the stuff would be useless to me. How many people are interested in six different CCGs, two miniatures games, D&D and 5 board games?

Even I would have problems doing it!

During my life, I've played:

D&D RPG
Magic: the Gathering CCG
Star Wars CCG
D&D Miniatures
Star Wars Miniatures
Acquire
Axis and Allies
and at least one variant of Risk.

Adding the other board games and CCGs to that? Eek. And I'm a dedicated gamer.

Cheers!

 

[Acid_crash]

I'm on the flip side, I'd love to do it, but there is only one store within 75 miles of where I live. I think that sucks.

 

[Campbell]

Well...Label me passionately disinterested. While free product is great, and becoming accomplished with this program might do wonders for my resume, I just can't relate to the CCG/CMG market segment. If you could focus on the games that actually interest you, this program could actually be worthwhile.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Sounds like the focus isn't on D&D at all; rather it's on WotC's other products.

 

[dpmcalister]

And yet another example of WotC ignoring the non-US market!

 

[reanjr]

Hmm. Can anybody say 'free stuff' just to play games?

http://boards1.wizards.com/announcement.php?f=462

jh

Sounds to me like servitude. What they are asking for is an employee they don't have to pay.

If they paid a nominal wage (US minimum's what... 5.25?) I could see it being an attractive offer. But as it stands, it's too much work for very little benefit.

[edit] The funniest thing is that they are asking for delegates able to "represent Wizards of the Coast in a professional ... manner". Maybe they forgot that:

profession 1.a. An occupation or career
occupation 1.a. An activity that serves as one's regular source of livelihood

Wizards is the one not acting in a professional manner.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Well, I dunno about too little benefit. I'm sure there are gamers out there who would love to broaden their horizons with new games and schmooze with the owner of the FLGS. I don't think cash payment is necessary; freebies are enough.

Besides, for someone to truly be a "delegate" for the game, I would imagine financial gain should be well down the list of priorities. The way they've structured it is so that those who will do it "for the love of the game" will be most attracted to the position.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Well, I dunno about too little benefit. I'm sure there are gamers out there who would love to broaden their horizons with new games and schmooze with the owner of the FLGS. I don't think cash payment is necessary; freebies are enough.

Besides, for someone to truly be a "delegate" for the game, I would imagine financial gain should be well down the list of priorities. The way they've structured it is so that those who will do it "for the love of the game" will be most attracted to the position.

Exactly why I want to do it.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

Meh. I only play D&D and occaissonally other d20 games from Wizards. And I play Axis&Allies about once every 1-2 months but I don't want that stuff they give you for free and I don't think they'd like it when someone asked me about one of their books to say, 'yea I wouldn't buy that book it sucked, half of it was PRCs the other half was worthless information the average gamer will never need.'

And the last reason I'm not going to look into it is that it'd waste too much of my time.