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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8320506" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Hence my winking emote. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Although, to be fair, IMO, it's always been about both the money and the hobby.  Even in those first heady, halcyon days, Gary was trying to feed his family. And the loan he had to take from Brian Blume to get TSR off the ground in the first place had far-reaching implications, eventually down to Gary being forced out of the company in '85/86. Perhaps we could say that in the period where WotC first acquired TSR to save D&D from TSR's creditors, it really wasn't about the money. Although of course WotC management really didn't want to lose any more money once they had acquired that dying company. Part of publishing games we love, once we get out of just doing it as a hobby, does mean that the money matters and influences everything.  That being said, from what I've seen there have always been passionate, hardworking gamers focused on the game itself even during the periods of worst mismanagement.  Whether that was when Williams & co were threatening fansites with lawsuits and making the terrible business decisions around Buck Rogers and the Random House deal, or in 3.5 when WotC was pumping out books ad nauseum seemingly at the behest of Hasbro to sell MORE, MORE, MORE!</blockquote>

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