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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 2322236" data-attributes="member: 8396">You know what I'm finding interesting?  A lot of people are saying, "pay for a GM?  No way!  That's a hobby and the guy who's GMing should do it for the love of the game!"  Yet in a lot of cases, these same posters are also saying, "but I'd certainly pay for an online game!  Consider the servers, the connection, the program, the 'when I want it' convenience, etc."Now, I'm not against paying for online games, playing D&D for free, or technically even for or against paying for a GM, (I think you'd have to be REALLY GOOD to deserve being paid to GM though!).  I do however find it odd that people will happily pay strangers for the priviledge of borrowing the use of computer games in a very impersonal arrangement, but think the idea of paying a person they know to devote personalized attention to just them for essentially the same thing but with much more human interaction is a "bad thing(TM)".I'm also surprised that no one has brought up that people are perfectly willing to pay to watch other people play a game (football, hockey, baseball, etc) and think that there's nothing wrong with the players receiving salaries to play...  Hey, there you go!  Let's set up indoor stadiums with big "theatre-style" video screens everywhere, in-game commentators, etc, and charge people money to come and watch other people play D&D! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />I agree with Monte.  If we were used to paying, then we'd think nothing of paying.  We're used to not paying, thus we don't want to consider giving up our free hobby.  I find it amusing that several people above have stated that while they wouldn't pay a GM, they also wouldn't turn down payment for GMing! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />In North America, it's free to operate a TV - in most places you can even pick up free TV stations using antennae.  In the UK however people pay a TV broadcasting tax to receive those stations & they have vans that drive around neighbourhoods detecting whether or not you're receiving broadcasts in your home without paying the tax...  In the UK no one thinks it's strange to pay a broadcast tax.  Just try and introduce that now to the Americans or Canadians though!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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