Comments on: Ransom http://www.lategaming.com/2008/05/06/ransom/ staying up late, playing games Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:49:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: matt http://www.lategaming.com/2008/05/06/ransom/comment-page-1/#comment-5128 matt Thu, 08 May 2008 08:17:52 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/?p=391#comment-5128 I guess it depends. It was said on the RPGnet forums that Crucible Design was 'underappreciated' when we were producing books. I think it's more accurate to say that I was busy with a full time job as well as writing, proofing, organising, doing layout and negotiating with the publisher. It would have been nice for even one of the others involved to do some active promotion. As a result, we put nearly zero effort into PR and marketing and even less money. Any surprise we were obscure? I guess it depends. It was said on the RPGnet forums that Crucible Design was ‘underappreciated’ when we were producing books. I think it’s more accurate to say that I was busy with a full time job as well as writing, proofing, organising, doing layout and negotiating with the publisher. It would have been nice for even one of the others involved to do some active promotion.

As a result, we put nearly zero effort into PR and marketing and even less money. Any surprise we were obscure?

]]> By: Mark http://www.lategaming.com/2008/05/06/ransom/comment-page-1/#comment-5127 Mark Thu, 08 May 2008 08:01:54 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/?p=391#comment-5127 I saw this through boingboing recently: <a href="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_reality_of.php" rel="nofollow">the reality of 1000 fans</a>... My own experince with doing free software pretty much convinces me that it's not worth doing piecemeal. You have to do it all-out, not just full-time. You have do your own promotion, distrubition, community-building, be completely nutzo passionate, proflic, etc but if your like me and you just want to create, that's a lot of extra work that I'm not willing to do. I saw this through boingboing recently: the reality of 1000 fans…

My own experince with doing free software pretty much convinces me that it’s not worth doing piecemeal. You have to do it all-out, not just full-time. You have do your own promotion, distrubition, community-building, be completely nutzo passionate, proflic, etc but if your like me and you just want to create, that’s a lot of extra work that I’m not willing to do.

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