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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8663181" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'm sorry, but, what part of gaming isn't commodified?&nbsp; The only thing that hasn't been commodified since pretty much day 1 is DMing.&nbsp; Everything else about the hobby certainly has been and has been for a very long time.I'm really not seeing this as a new thing.&nbsp; I could get paid for every part of my hobby except running a game for a very long time.&nbsp; I haven't, fair enough.&nbsp; But, I certainly could.&nbsp; Or at least I could try.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; So, why should running a game be any different?&nbsp; Do I want to?&nbsp; No, I don't.&nbsp; Not really my bag.&nbsp; Then again, there's lots of jobs I don't want to do.&nbsp; OTOH, maybe a lot of the really, really garbage gaming that I've experienced over the years, players who can't be bothered showing up, can't be bothered engaging when they do show up, can be bothered learning the rules or even the basic outline of their character rules, so on and so forth, would have been nipped in the bud if I was charging 25 bucks a session per player.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8663181, member: 22779"] I'm sorry, but, what part of gaming isn't commodified? The only thing that hasn't been commodified since pretty much day 1 is DMing. Everything else about the hobby certainly has been and has been for a very long time. I'm really not seeing this as a new thing. I could get paid for every part of my hobby except running a game for a very long time. I haven't, fair enough. But, I certainly could. Or at least I could try. :D So, why should running a game be any different? Do I want to? No, I don't. Not really my bag. Then again, there's lots of jobs I don't want to do. OTOH, maybe a lot of the really, really garbage gaming that I've experienced over the years, players who can't be bothered showing up, can't be bothered engaging when they do show up, can be bothered learning the rules or even the basic outline of their character rules, so on and so forth, would have been nipped in the bud if I was charging 25 bucks a session per player. [/QUOTE]

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