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<blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 7676759" data-attributes="member: 9213"><p>Yeah you just hit the nail on the head Zil. </p><p></p><p>I guess that the RPG industry gets to redefine what outsourcing / not outsourcing is for them while the rest of the world has this idea of what outsourcing is in any other case. </p><p>For me I consider it freelancing (individuals) to outsourcing (company). Case in point, where I work about 10 years ago they eliminated our mailroom and outsourced those services to Canon. Whereas our Creative Services dept sometimes falls behind or takes on a project that will need one or two extra hands and will hire one or two individuals not affiliated with each other to pick up the slack for the length of that project. Sometimes maybe longer. </p><p></p><p>The first instance is considered to have been outsourced and the second to have hired freelancers.</p><p></p><p>Now people are going to argue the point to the contrary, which is their prerogative. But when I saw that Kobold Press and Green Ronin were working on adventures for 5E? My mind having worked in non-RPG industry capacity for over 20 years immediately went to "Outsource" as opposed to "Freelance". If it had been Wolfgang Baur or Steve Kenson or Chris Premas writing adventures for 5E I would have thought "freelance". </p><p></p><p>I think that it's interesting that so many people are hell bent on telling each other that they're wrong for thinking a certain way even though out in the world (meaning outside of the RPG industry) if I'd explained it in exactly the same way a lot of people would have labeled it the same or come to the same conclusion. Which is in fact what I did when I spoke to our manager in Creative Services and one of our Conference Managers both of whom hire freelancers and outsource Conference Services from time to time. </p><p></p><p>None of this is to say what WOTC is doing is BAD. If I were playing 5E I'd be ecstatic that Kobold Press and Green Ronin were writing material for 5E. That's actually a GOOD THING.</p><p></p><p>Okay I just needed to say my piece. Back to tearing each other's throats out for incorrect nomenclature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ShinHakkaider, post: 7676759, member: 9213"] Yeah you just hit the nail on the head Zil. I guess that the RPG industry gets to redefine what outsourcing / not outsourcing is for them while the rest of the world has this idea of what outsourcing is in any other case. For me I consider it freelancing (individuals) to outsourcing (company). Case in point, where I work about 10 years ago they eliminated our mailroom and outsourced those services to Canon. Whereas our Creative Services dept sometimes falls behind or takes on a project that will need one or two extra hands and will hire one or two individuals not affiliated with each other to pick up the slack for the length of that project. Sometimes maybe longer. The first instance is considered to have been outsourced and the second to have hired freelancers. Now people are going to argue the point to the contrary, which is their prerogative. But when I saw that Kobold Press and Green Ronin were working on adventures for 5E? My mind having worked in non-RPG industry capacity for over 20 years immediately went to "Outsource" as opposed to "Freelance". If it had been Wolfgang Baur or Steve Kenson or Chris Premas writing adventures for 5E I would have thought "freelance". I think that it's interesting that so many people are hell bent on telling each other that they're wrong for thinking a certain way even though out in the world (meaning outside of the RPG industry) if I'd explained it in exactly the same way a lot of people would have labeled it the same or come to the same conclusion. Which is in fact what I did when I spoke to our manager in Creative Services and one of our Conference Managers both of whom hire freelancers and outsource Conference Services from time to time. None of this is to say what WOTC is doing is BAD. If I were playing 5E I'd be ecstatic that Kobold Press and Green Ronin were writing material for 5E. That's actually a GOOD THING. Okay I just needed to say my piece. Back to tearing each other's throats out for incorrect nomenclature. [/QUOTE]
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