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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smokewolf" data-source="post: 2668375" data-attributes="member: 16839">I will preface this by saying that I am a publisher and use both RPGNOW and DTRPG. While this is not an attack or anything, I do want to voice my opinion (as small as it is).I am not sure what to make of this new policy. I see both GMS and Steve's point of views. ENWORLD has been a huge source of customers for RPGNOW and others and that addition hoops will cause a reduction in sales.I also see the other side, ENWORLD is not here to serve our needs. It is not suppose to drive sales for us. And now that it is preparing to enter the PDF market it would like to generate money for itself instead of others.My real concern though is my impression of ENWORLD from this point forward. Please take this as an honest assessment and not simply a bitch because I am a vendor.Before I felt that ENWORLD was a good source of unbiased information. I felt that information I received here was solid and that it was a news site. I check ENWORLD 5-10x a day just to keep up with the industry and consumer sentiment. However, it seems that recently steps have been taken to get information in a form that ENWORLD wants it in rather than in an unbiased honest form.Press Releases are NEWS. Regardless of what they say, they are reporting on some facet of the industry that some people want to here about. Placing restrictions on what can go into a PR is a form of censorship. Maybe not in the constitutional way, but at least in a restriction of what information is to be and what isn't to be passed to the average reader.At this point, I feel I am forced now to read ENWORLD with a grain of salt more so than I did before. Am I getting an honest reflection of the news or am I getting the news as ENWORLD wants me to see. Tie that into the fact that not only are we talking about generating money from store sales, I am sure that ENPub will be part of the new store. Thus blurring the line between commerce and news even more.Outside of this market, most professionals would tell you news and commerce are not a good mix, especially when they are both in the same area. Imagine if MSNBC only reported about Computer News. There would be 20 negative linux stories to each negative MS story (or at least that is the justification behind the industry keeping the mix from happening). I respect that decisions need to be made and sometimes a shift in direction happens. However, as both a publisher and a gamer, I am not sure that ENWORLD is going to be the place for me to get the news and information I can trust. There are definitely other sites without such an appearant conflict of interest and maybe those will become more important to me than ENWORLD.I hope this makes sense and is accepted in the honest way I am trying to present it.</blockquote>

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