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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7679307" data-attributes="member: 2525">Lolwut?Outsourcing has been a big issue since well before that.  Outsourcing as a primary business strategy in the U.S. started in 1989 and was all the rage in the 1990s.  It was a huge issue during the passage of the NAFTA agreement, and earlier rounds of China negotiations. It was a big topic in the 2004 Presidential race debates - where it had been happening for over a decade at that point.  By the time Paizo was doing it, it was very old hat already.  Paizo was only founded in 2002 remember, and started work on Pathfinder in 2007. In 2008 <a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5la07?Meet-The-Artists-Concept-Art-House" target="_blank">Paizo announced outsourcing</a>. "Concept Art House is an international art studio/outsourcing company....a full production studio in Shanghai, China...You'll be seeing plenty of their work in the pages of Pathfinder products." Nobody said a negative word about it, as far as I can recall.  I would say that aspect (and just that kind of overseas usage) of what Paizo did is legitimately called outsourcing. So let me see if I follow the double standard here.  Paizo is bigger than WOTC for D&D when it comes to bashing them for running "a skeleton crew" for D&D (which was never true but has been the repeated claim).  But when discussing this topic, now they're "the big company" and held to a different higher standard than Paizo..  Even though Paizo has a lot more employees working on the topic we're discussing (D&D). And even though there is zero justification to be discussing the Magic the Gathering employees of WOTC for the purposes of this discussion.  Did I cover the double standard?Nobody is tarring and feathering people. We're disagreeing civilly.  Things like "outsourcing wasn't a big negative thing in the year 2003 or so when Paizo started doing it", or "hold WOTC to a double standard of either bigger or smaller than Paizo depending on the topic" are plenty fair grounds for disagreement.  If people feel disagreement is the same as dipping in burning tar and covering in feathers to punish for speaking, I think perhaps there should be some re-thinking on who is being overly defensive here.</blockquote>

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