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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6120017" data-attributes="member: 1">I always find these reports interesting - and appreciate the transparency.Steve Jackson Games Incorporated has a single stockholder: me. But many people have a stake in our success. Our STAKEholders are our employees, our distributors and retailers, and, of course, the people who play our games . . . as well as the freelance artists and designers we work with, the printers who create the finished product, the volunteers who demonstrate our games at conventions and retail stores, and the folks who run game conventions.We try to stay in touch with our stakeholders. Most of our communications nowadays are via Internet: our Daily Illuminator blog, our Twitter feed, our forums, the web pages for our games, and the letters that go to the 200+ people and companies to whom we pay royalties. And, every year since 2004, I've written an annual report not unlike the &quot;report to the stockholders&quot; that you'd expect from a public company. This is it.<a href="http://www.sjgames.com/general/stakeholders/" target="_blank">Here's the report</a>.Interesting that OGRE, while being a massive Kickstarte successm isn't necessarily a win - in some senses, he calls it a failure since it reduced attention to the core business.Additionally, he summarises 2012 for the industry:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6120017, member: 1"] I always find these reports interesting - and appreciate the transparency. [I]Steve Jackson Games Incorporated has a single stockholder: me. But many people have a stake in our success. Our STAKEholders are our employees, our distributors and retailers, and, of course, the people who play our games . . . as well as the freelance artists and designers we work with, the printers who create the finished product, the volunteers who demonstrate our games at conventions and retail stores, and the folks who run game conventions. [/I] [I]We try to stay in touch with our stakeholders. Most of our communications nowadays are via Internet: our Daily Illuminator blog, our Twitter feed, our forums, the web pages for our games, and the letters that go to the 200+ people and companies to whom we pay royalties. And, every year since 2004, I've written an annual report not unlike the "report to the stockholders" that you'd expect from a public company. This is it.[/I] [URL="http://www.sjgames.com/general/stakeholders/"]Here's the report[/URL]. Interesting that OGRE, while being a massive Kickstarte successm isn't necessarily a win - in some senses, he calls it a failure since it reduced attention to the core business. Additionally, he summarises 2012 for the industry: [/QUOTE]

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