Re: freeflow games & paying 2 play

From: Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>

Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000

"Karen J. Cravens" <phoenyx@southwind.net> writes
>When I
>pay to go to a sports event, I'm paying to watch, not
>participate... when's the last softball game you played in that
>you hired out a pitcher for?  My point is just that paying for
>things doesn't automatically make them better.  Around here, I
>can pay to play paintball at a nice field with well-maintained
>barricades, or I can pay to play at a sandbar on the river with
>locust trees and poison ivy, or I can play for free in the
>floodway with nice trees, or I can play for free by the railroad
>tracks and get run over by dirtbikes.
>
Sorry, I've no idea what a softball game is<g>. Don't you feel as if you are
part of the event when you go to something like a sports game or a rock
concert? I do. If not, why bother going, just sit at home and watch it on
television. Obviously paying for things doesn't make them better, but it
also doesn't make them worse. Why pay to watch a softball(?) game so
that the players can be paid massively inflated wages when you can go and
watch people playing for fun without it costing you anything?

>Nor am I whining, merely defending myself when someone criticized
>my suggestion that there are plenty of free roleplaying games out
>there.  If you'll check the back posts, you'll note that my
>original attacker asserted that free roleplaying games were
>inferior before ever I mentioned paid ones.

I appreciate that, I did say at the start of my message that I'd only seen
half the thread, sorry I accused you of whining! As I said before, there's
room for free and fee gaming, which suggests to me that there's no real
argument and so we could go round in ever decreasing circles for ever
achieving nothing but allowing some people to flex their ego's in the
process!

Phil Shulkind
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References

re:freeflow games & paying 2 play
Williams <mlwilliams@taz.dra.hmg.gb>
Tue, 09 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000