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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nikchick" data-source="post: 428166" data-attributes="member: 344">I think the point isn't that the customer should care if I'm living in poverty (although please, if you don't care that *I* am living in poverty, please don't expect me to care if you say you're too poor to afford a book...it cuts both ways).  The point is that we shouldn't be expected to run our businesses like a hobby, and that we're not arbitrarily raising the prices of game books.I'm proud of the stance my company has taken: that we give credit where credit is due, that we pay people as reasonably well as we possibly can, that we add value to the products we produce in as many ways as we can afford to (by using high quality materials, hiring talented professionals, by offering products that give their users pleasure by being clever and pretty as well as utilitarian, by offering previews, samples and enhancements for free on our website), that we offer these things in lieu of "making a buck" by cutting those corners in order to under-price the end product.  I've worked in the game industry for 15 years, and I've seen many companies rise and fall.  I'm willing to accept the risk that people aren't going to want what I'm offering.  If they don't , I will go out of business, that's the way of the world.  But I don't agree that it's a foregone conclusion that our philosphy of business can't work and I'm willing to see it through to the end, charging enough to make a modest living, paying those who work for me as "generously" (if you can call 4 cents a word generous) as I can afford so that they too may earn a modest living.  Book of the Righteous has been used as an example in this thread, as if it is an example of a book that is "too expensive" to succeed, but despite the folks who have admitted that it's a book beyond their means here, it remains one of the most successful products Green Ronin has produced in the history of our company.I'm not bitter that not everyone can afford to buy everything my company produces.  I hope others can refrain from being bitter that I'm determined to produce those things in the best manner I can.Nicole</blockquote>

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