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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 7734975" data-attributes="member: 1620">For the freelancers, I guess.Kinda sucks for everyone else.And since the RPG industry isn't sustanied by the freelancers alone (you know ... since they need the people who actually offer them the job opportunities just like the publishers need the people who fill them), well ... let's just say I don't see the whole "let's fire our staff and stop fulfilling orders so we can downsize and pay writers and artists more" busines model happening market-wide anytime soon.Because your entire premise depends on the assumption on your part that if people aren't doing business like LotFP is, the only reasons are they are either wasting money or hoarding it to their own unfair benefit. Your points repeatedly rely on circumstances that ignore the basic principles of running a business in general, let alone a larger RPG publisher, which is probably why you don't address these points in your replies, instead cherry picking the ones that allow you to return to your previous refrain without saying anything new.EDIT: While it's true that lower rates may come with a bigger business and the accompanying expenses, I've not said anything about worse product. You keep returning to that point without explaining why it is you objectively think GR and Evil Hat have "worse product." Considering I've got products from both companies, all of which are on high grade paper and with good binding that hasn't failed, I'm wondering where that accusation arises from and why you think I've been saying it's an expected outcome.And the reason why, seemingly paradoxically, larger businesses may only be able to afford less is that, on the scale of economies, they have moved beyond the point of flexibility that a company with smaller outlay (e.g., LotFP) has, but not yet surpassed the point where their net profits allow them to pay more. It's an incredibly common place for small businenesses to find themselves operating in any industry, let alone RPG publishers.</blockquote>

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