Heated? When someone maligns me publicly and accuses me of arguing something I never said, and does so in full knowledge of the fact that their status as moderator is going to make people believe it whether or not it's true, you're damn right I'm going to get heated, for good cause.
' If you don’t want to pay a fair price for the creative work that goes into developing a game book, you do not have to buy the book. But it is not kind to argue that game creators are unreasonable for wishing to make a living from their work. '
I never argued any such thing. All I said was PDFs cost less to produce than physical books, and Patrick O'Duffy (who literally just got off a three day ban for outrageous hostility against another user, check the Infractions from the other day) jumped all over me making false accusations, then multiple other users jumped on and dogpiled me with some really nasty comments, culminating in Arethusa libelling me.
That is some seriously unethical stuff, right there.
And what's even funnier is how they continued arguing about irrelevancies, never once actually addressing what "substantially lower" might actually mean. Let's say a physical book costs $50. If a PDF version sells for $40, that's a 20% discount. Now again, I'm not arguing specific numbers, but would you say 20% is "significantly lower"? I think a lot of people would. What if the PDF were $30, or even $25? Now we're talking a full 50% discount, yet I guarantee you some people would say that's too expensive. I, on the other hand, didn't say any such thing. All I said was, a PDF *should* cost substantially less, and left it open-ended.
I *am* a game creator. These dunderheads have convinced themselves I am arguing that I myself am being unreasonable for wishing to make a living from my work.
I didn't say a single thing in that thread that will embarrass me later. The others? Not so much. The written record stands and is clear as day.