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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9449367" data-attributes="member: 11760">Let me put it this way:When someone runs their company in a great, ethical way and it's clearly a nice place to work -- [USER=239]@Mongoose_Matt[/USER]'s annual State of the Mongoose posts are a treat to read -- it makes me more likely to buy from them.Does that mean I never buy from a company or corporation that does things I disapprove of? No, unless I go live like a hermit in the woods and create my own paper from fallen trees to create my own RPGs with, at some point, I have to hold my nose to one degree or another.But there are also companies that are so problematic that I am just done with them. They're mostly in the OSR space: You can guess which two companies spring to mind immediately there. And there's another one I haven't bought from in a decade that I am theoretically not boycotting yet, but they just haven't done anything that outweighs their stink. But no company is immune to potentially being on this list.RPGs are not a necessity of life and even if they were, there's enough stuff out in the Creative Commons for me to roll up a system I would be happy playing for the rest of my life. (I am not someone who ever needs a premade adventure, splatbook or supplement -- I like homebrewing and, if I may say so, am no worse at it than a number of folks who've produced some stuff from the big companies.)</blockquote>