{"id":6387,"date":"2011-10-21T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2011-10-21T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T21:54:11","slug":"mlag-issue-9-selling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/mlag-issue-9-selling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"MLAG: Issue #9: Selling Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue #9: Selling\u00a0Out<\/h2>\n
By Ryan MacDonald<\/div>\n

I need to have words on this phrase and I need to do it now. \u00a0Since the game Munchkin<\/em> found it\u2019s way into my hands some months ago I\u2019ve been an avid fan. \u00a0I frequent the forums, offer help when I can and a misguided opinion more often than most. \u00a0Anyway, there was a not-so-recent announcement and more recent upcoming release of Munchkin\u2019s second ever licensed product. \u00a0Munchkin Axe Cop. <\/em>If you know nothing about Axe Cop all you need to know is that it\u2019s a web comic done in a page by page style created by a 7 year old and illustrated and brought to the masses by his 31-year old brother. \u00a0The comic has a massive following and has recently seen success in print. \u00a0Thus breaking it from the doom of being a web comic forever. \u00a0Well, attention begets attention and it caught the eye of Steve Jackson and I guess he had a great time making it because now the next licensed products from SJ Games are on their way out. \u00a0And the boards are A FLAME with people screaming \u201cSell Out!\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, this is nothing new to me. \u00a0I went through high school slightly ahead of the pack as far as discovering music goes. \u00a0I\u2019d hear something, 3 months later everyone I knew would be jumping on board with it, and 3 more months later you couldn\u2019t turn on the radio without hearing them. \u00a0And, of course, wherever I looked I heard the ever vigilant call of \u201cSELL OUT!!!\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s a term disgustingly mishandled by the youth. \u00a0Recording contracts don\u2019t make bands sell outs. \u00a0Turning their backs on their fans doesn\u2019t even make someone a sell out.<\/p>\n

A sell out is, in MY personal edition of the dictionary where words and phrases mean what I say they mean, someone who\u2019s changed who they are, what they\u2019re about and what they believe in and the way they do something for a paycheck. \u00a0In the case of bands, a lot of them started playing for the music, no one started playing music for money, because if they started playing for money they wouldn\u2019t have made it very far to begin with. \u00a0It takes a lot of begging for gigs and getting stiffed on pay days to see a full check come in with your name on it.<\/p>\n

The same goes for SJ Games, which is what I\u2019m writing this in regards to. \u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure Steve Jackson didn\u2019t start up this gaming company because there was going to be money in it. \u00a0I think they\u2019re still climbing the ladder to commercial success. \u00a0And licensing a creative property to base a card game on causes fans to scream and rant and rave and burn hotter than the fires of Mordor? \u00a0That\u2019s kind of ridiculous.<\/p>\n

The fact is, we do things because we love doing them. \u00a0If there\u2019s money to made doing it, great! \u00a0The first thought is \u201cI never thought I\u2019d be able to make money doing what I love.\u201d \u00a0So the next time you think about slinging the term \u201cSell out\u201d in the direction of anyone, consider this;<\/p>\n

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Would you do something you loved to do if you could make money doing it? \u00a0OF COURSE YOU WOULD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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