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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 9883273" data-attributes="member: 1008">The hobby exists, in the first place, because of a series of individual and group passion projects. It spread for the same reason. Yes, it was and is financially viable for a number of companies, and it will most likely continue to be so -- but if it does, it should be because people are releasing material that other people feel is worth buying, not because people buy the material simply out of obligation to support the industry.The hobby does not require the ongoing success of WotC. Even if multi-million dollar kickstarters cease to be a thing, the hobby will still be there. No corporation can stop you gaming. There are thousands of people releasing cheap and free material, and they will continue to do so.The industry is not the hobby, and the the hobby is perfectly fine and safe. It does not require your financial support to survive and thrive.Edit:We started by making our own games, without any official products, and just a general idea about how the whole thing works. Perhaps that's influenced my overall feeling, but I've never been dependent on official material. However, as implied above, that also doesn't mean that I don't spend money on the hobby and support the industry. It's just that I don't see "supporting the industry" as any sort of moral obligation. Make good products that I can use and I'll pay for them, just like anything else I spend my my budget for leisure activities on.</blockquote>

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