Reply To: Forums and arguments.

[McLaddie]

And how would you determine who qualifies as a ‘published game designer?’   I have published wargames in the past and simulation games in a number of venues.  Yet, a couple of game designers insist that I don’t ‘qualify’ as either a game designer or professional because I currently don’t have a miniature rules set out.  Who decides?  How would that be determined? What about all those folks that have rules free online?  Is that published, or does it require money exchanging hands to qualify?  Even the categories of professional and amateur aren’t necessarily established by selling a product.  In a small hobby where most designers don’t do it for a living, does that make a difference with those categories?  How about only those who design games for a living?  Do we send in our profit and loss reports as evidence of our ‘professionalism’?

I’m with Not Connrad.  What are the odds that such a division could or should work to anyone’s benefit?  The free exchange of ideas and information is what the forum is all about.  Obviously, some folks are against that…