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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 7652435" data-attributes="member: 27160">It's creative, sure, but it's done by a group of people, not by an individual. I should perhaps have said "individual art" - I was thinking of painting, but sculpture or the like could also qualify. And note that there is still no monopoly on "quality" - the judgement simply comes after the piece is complete.Even poor research tells us what something is not - which is better than no information at all.The problem with your assessment, here, is that it assumes some external authority on what constitutes "quality". To say that evidence for such an authority is sparse would be a gargantuan understatement.By it's own lights - which are the ones that matter, to it - the market is always right. It has the final say; the only thing that can gainsay it is power and that proves itself wrong by its own execution.It may be that you disagree with the market/masses. You have every right to do so. There may even be people who agree with you. But, unless you have some legitimate grounds for claiming superior authority as regards "quality", your consensus is merely a tautology. You agree with people who agree with you because they have the same views on the matter as you do. Everyone on the planet could say the same. But the final arbiter on what the market wants is always what people buy. Simples.This is at odds with itself.Suppose a company wants to produce a roleplaying game that is primarily intended for the OP market. Its primary aim is to be played at clubs and as convention and gameshop play events. Why should they not "do anything other than make the game"? And why should WotC be debarred from making D&D with such an agenda?If you were saying "not all game companies should support or focus any corporate effort on organised play", your point would be coherent. And, as an aside, I would agree with it. But you seem to be demanding that no RPG company should put any effort into organised play. That seems to be exclusive in a way that you claim that it isn't.Again the assumption that there is some absolute, external authoritative version of what is "right". I'm afraid you are destined to be disappointed, on that one.Especially if you think that the predetermined "right" version is the one you currently envisage it to be. That's a situation that never ends well.</blockquote>

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