Note on pdf piracy

[philreed]

Like most RPG companies worth their salt, Behemoth3 has corporate espionage specialists on our payroll. Normally our spies get jobs that are both boring (sifting through Phil Reed's garbage) and futile (not only did we not discover the secret dietary formula that makes him so productive, we didn't even find proof that it exists).

I shall now reveal my secret to life as a PDF publisher.

I have no life.

I leave the house maybe once a week (once every two to three weeks is not unusual), have no children, and have company maybe once a week/two weeks. I also don't sleep much (never have) and am usually awake and working by about 4 am.

I shall become even more productive once I complete the largest phase of my plan -- moving even further from society. As it is, I'm currently 30 minutes from Austin and that's way too close and tempting. My solution is to buy a house in western North Dakota -- probably 100 miles or so from a town of any size -- and become the hermit I've secretly always been.

And, before any of you ask, yes my current place is surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire and a gate. If only I had some machine gun emplacements on towers my life would be perfect.

[matthijs]

[quote="Rorimack](...) the connection is not a company-customer connection, but a more "human", fellow player-fellow player one. [/quote]

As a buyer of indie games, I very much agree. I like the feeling of being in touch with the person who wrote the game I bought - getting a personal reply to a question, etc. It's not at all the same thing as buying a "pro" game in the store. It's a very big part of the attraction of indie games, at least for me. (That, and the fact that they're small, so I can be bothered to actually read them; they're cheaper than big hardcover games; they do new and unexpected stuff; and they have a cool attitude).

[Yokiboy]

That, and the fact that they're small, so I can be bothered to actually read them

Draug wheigs in at 240 pages, what gives?  ;)

TTFN,

Yokiboy

[Vaxalon]

I shall now reveal my secret to life as a PDF publisher.

I have no life.

That's the secret to success in ANYTHING, though, isn't it?  Sacrifice EVERYTHING else to get it?