| From: | Lady Jestyr jestyr@*********.html.com |
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| Subject: | Game systems (Was: Re: Yet another crossover possibility |
| Date: | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:04:48 +1000 |
>>> >WotC....
>>>
>>> People keep saying that like it's a bad thing. It's really starting
>>> to bug me.
>>
>>Well if you have noticed those last years WoC is buying everything.
>
>You exaggerate, sir. You exaggerate a lot. They acquired TSR several years
>ago, and they acquired LUG this year. That's two. (Wizards itself was
>recently purchased by Hasbro.) They haven't shown any great tendency
>towards buying "everything."
Just to be nit-picky - Five Rings Publishing Group, as well.
>I see the same pattern with LUG. LUG's been struggling, and struggling
>hard, for some time. They've had distribution problems, production
>problems, all sorts of problems...
And payment problems. It's no secret that LUG paid their freelancers almost
NEVER. Most of the industry's most talented people refused to work for LUG
because they were owed so much money and LUG was never going to pay up.
WOTC was a godsend.
Of course, WOTC doesn't employ freelancers, so either way they're out of
luck, but at least now they'll get paid for what they've already done. :)
Lady Jestyr
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