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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 7679580" data-attributes="member: 6680772"><p>I know it's a month and some 25 pages ago, but there was context to Crawford's statement that seems to be gone now. That context was, before the EN World Multithread <em>Thème du Mois</em> was the role of whimsy, it was whether WotC's release schedule was too light, mistaken, or a good or bad strategy. The specific context was an Enworld thread wherein justin3x3 expressed happiness that the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide would be "WotC's first book in a year," and then expressed disappointment when he found out it was being written by Green Ronin. In the course of explaining his initial happiness and later disappointment, he repeatedly referred to products being "outsourced" or "not outsourced". Understand that he was not using it in a nuanced way to describe the collaborative effort described by Crawford, nor as a nuanced way to describe the industry's well-known reliance on contracted freelance work. No, justin3x3 was using it to explicitly remove ALL credit from WotC. HotDQ, RoT, PotA, none of that was put out by WotC, per justin. It was "outsourced".</p><p></p><p>Nor was justin3x3 the only person to use the word in this way. It was used by a number of folks in those threads, often to suggest that WotC no longer had the manpower to release any content, and so had to "outsource" all product after the Core Books. All used in a negative way, all to suggest that WotC had minimal involvement in the development of the those products. justin3x3's comments were just the straw that broke the camel's back, and encouraged Crawford to clarify WotC's collaborative role in the products.</p><p></p><p>In the archest of ironies, justin3x3 then accused Crawford of semantic dishonesty for using the word in the way he (justin3x3) had been using it. He's not here any more.</p><p></p><p>So we can certainly have an interesting conversation about industry practices, but let us not pretend that the word "outsourcing" was being innocently used, or was anything but a proverbial "stick to beat a dog with".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 7679580, member: 6680772"] I know it's a month and some 25 pages ago, but there was context to Crawford's statement that seems to be gone now. That context was, before the EN World Multithread [i]Thème du Mois[/i] was the role of whimsy, it was whether WotC's release schedule was too light, mistaken, or a good or bad strategy. The specific context was an Enworld thread wherein justin3x3 expressed happiness that the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide would be "WotC's first book in a year," and then expressed disappointment when he found out it was being written by Green Ronin. In the course of explaining his initial happiness and later disappointment, he repeatedly referred to products being "outsourced" or "not outsourced". Understand that he was not using it in a nuanced way to describe the collaborative effort described by Crawford, nor as a nuanced way to describe the industry's well-known reliance on contracted freelance work. No, justin3x3 was using it to explicitly remove ALL credit from WotC. HotDQ, RoT, PotA, none of that was put out by WotC, per justin. It was "outsourced". Nor was justin3x3 the only person to use the word in this way. It was used by a number of folks in those threads, often to suggest that WotC no longer had the manpower to release any content, and so had to "outsource" all product after the Core Books. All used in a negative way, all to suggest that WotC had minimal involvement in the development of the those products. justin3x3's comments were just the straw that broke the camel's back, and encouraged Crawford to clarify WotC's collaborative role in the products. In the archest of ironies, justin3x3 then accused Crawford of semantic dishonesty for using the word in the way he (justin3x3) had been using it. He's not here any more. So we can certainly have an interesting conversation about industry practices, but let us not pretend that the word "outsourcing" was being innocently used, or was anything but a proverbial "stick to beat a dog with". [/QUOTE]
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