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<blockquote data-quote="mxyzplk" data-source="post: 6208251" data-attributes="member: 16450">Come on guys, Business 101.&nbsp; Sure, they write good books.&nbsp; Guess what, a lot of publishers languishing out there in RPGNow land write good books.&nbsp; They wrote good stuff off the bat and got the money and buzz so that they could write even better books, pay better writers, buy better art.&nbsp; Do you think anyone without that would get the licenses they've got?&nbsp; They don't give licenses for &quot;writing good books&quot; they give them for business sense. Do you think any brand new company with no sales yet could put out a product like M&amp;M 3e? No, that takes already established pockets and resources.Don't propagate the pernicious false promise that &quot;if you just work reeeeeallly hard and put your heart into that 300 word manuscript you're writing, suddenly you'll have a successful game company.&quot; It's not true and all it gets you is depressed, disappointed creative types who don't realize why life &quot;gave them a raw deal.&quot; If you are not smart about how you release, when you release, how you market and/or get free marketing, how you fund your products - you will not be successful.&nbsp; Chalking up Green Ronin (or Paizo, or whoever's) success to nothing but &quot;good books&quot; and not the good business sense those companies' leaders have had reveals a dangerously naive lack of knowledge about publishing and business in general.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mxyzplk, post: 6208251, member: 16450"] Come on guys, Business 101. Sure, they write good books. Guess what, a lot of publishers languishing out there in RPGNow land write good books. They wrote good stuff off the bat and got the money and buzz so that they could write even better books, pay better writers, buy better art. Do you think anyone without that would get the licenses they've got? They don't give licenses for "writing good books" they give them for business sense. Do you think any brand new company with no sales yet could put out a product like M&M 3e? No, that takes already established pockets and resources. Don't propagate the pernicious false promise that "if you just work reeeeeallly hard and put your heart into that 300 word manuscript you're writing, suddenly you'll have a successful game company." It's not true and all it gets you is depressed, disappointed creative types who don't realize why life "gave them a raw deal." If you are not smart about how you release, when you release, how you market and/or get free marketing, how you fund your products - you will not be successful. Chalking up Green Ronin (or Paizo, or whoever's) success to nothing but "good books" and not the good business sense those companies' leaders have had reveals a dangerously naive lack of knowledge about publishing and business in general. [/QUOTE]

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