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<blockquote data-quote="smerwin29" data-source="post: 5756945" data-attributes="member: 15050"><p>Thank you, Alphastream, for bringing some much needed perspective to this topic. I have interviewed twice to work at WotC as a game designer/editor. Then I stopped applying for jobs there because of the uncertainty of the industry as a whole--I couldn't leave a good job and uproot my family. However, if I didn't have those responsibilities, I would have happily and with eyes wide open continued to pursue opportunities there.</p><p></p><p>As you said more eloquently than I could, WotC is in a strange position as being a small company beholden, if only tangentially, to a huge corporation. But in the end, it really is still a small company. And if you separate out the RPG side of things from the rest, it is a REALLY small company.</p><p></p><p>I've got a shelf full of games from more and diverse companies than I care to think about. Some are great, regardless of the size of the company. Some are less than stellar, again regardless of company size. But I know that these games have quite literally changed the course of my life from a very early age. I can only thank those people who have helped make them happen, no matter what company they work for. I hope WotC, Paizo, and all of the other RPG companies of the present and the future can prosper and continue to give us all the choices to play any game we want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smerwin29, post: 5756945, member: 15050"] Thank you, Alphastream, for bringing some much needed perspective to this topic. I have interviewed twice to work at WotC as a game designer/editor. Then I stopped applying for jobs there because of the uncertainty of the industry as a whole--I couldn't leave a good job and uproot my family. However, if I didn't have those responsibilities, I would have happily and with eyes wide open continued to pursue opportunities there. As you said more eloquently than I could, WotC is in a strange position as being a small company beholden, if only tangentially, to a huge corporation. But in the end, it really is still a small company. And if you separate out the RPG side of things from the rest, it is a REALLY small company. I've got a shelf full of games from more and diverse companies than I care to think about. Some are great, regardless of the size of the company. Some are less than stellar, again regardless of company size. But I know that these games have quite literally changed the course of my life from a very early age. I can only thank those people who have helped make them happen, no matter what company they work for. I hope WotC, Paizo, and all of the other RPG companies of the present and the future can prosper and continue to give us all the choices to play any game we want. [/QUOTE]
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