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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5980838" data-attributes="member: 2205">Maybe.  But maybe not.  Lots of people play without really buying new stuff.  Heck, I've seen handwavey estimates from WotC that up to 1 in 6-7 or so gamers are really purchasers of new material in significant numbers--basically 1 or 2 per group, mostly.I don't necessarily disagree with you.  I just don't care.  I don't have any responsibility to the hobby. I think it's obnoxious and in most cases socially unacceptable--maybe not to the level of rude, but certainly to the point of being highly annoying--to talk about your hobbies with people with whom you don't share them.  Doesn't mean I hide the fact that I'm a gamer (heck, I've got a baseball sized d20 on my desk at work, which invariably susses out gamers when they see it), but I don't do anything else to promote the hobby either.And frankly, I don't think I should feel any obligation to. You believe that when a hobby isn't fun anymore, people leaving the hobby is an exaggerated response?  See, I think the main problem with this entire premise is that it assumes a priori that the hobby should be promoted, or that any given individual should do stuff merely because it's "good for the hobby."  There's an easy response to that: why?  I don't think that's really been adequately answered except in specious and vague ways.  I have no incentive to do anything "for the good of the hobby."  As long as I have a solid gaming group that I like playing with and adequate material to play with, why should I care at all what happens to the hobby overall?  And I have a great gaming group that I really enjoy playing with, I know many other players waiting in the wings that I could recruit with little effort if I needed to, I know how to find new players if I move, or whatever, and I have more material than I can reasonably use in a lifetime.And even if I didn't, there's so much fan based stuff out there that I don't see any sign of that drying up anytime soon.  And even if I move, there are getting to be some pretty good options for playing non-face-to-face (Google+ hang-outs, etc.) that folks have had good success with.  Not that it's exactly the same, but still.  And I still have many other hobbies that--to some degree--have suffered because of time spent on roleplaying that I'd be happy to slot into place and devote some time to if my roleplaying ever falls apart.  I just really see no reason to be concerned about the good of the hobby.  At all.  I have zero motivation whatsoever.</blockquote>

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