My brother and I talked about this a bit today, and it doesn't come down to a blanket objection to merchandising, but this is the internet, and when people drop by and say that they'll turn what you've been doing for years into money that they'll then give back to you, you have to be a little suspicious. Now, I know who Derek is, so that's not a problem here, and it seems like a lot of you are interested in stuff like this (and I've received more than a handful of emails expressing similar interests, mostly in shirts, several just in the past three or four days).
As far as the business end of it goes, I've been approached by people in the past over shirt production/sales and so on, and I've turned them down for a variety of reasons which have been fluid with time. Now, with this sort of setup, I'm willing to give it a try, if you'd like, since there continues to be some enthusiasm. It's important to me that the process be somewhat transparent and that I have a bit of trust in the people using the game to generate money. I mean, I recognize that you're offering to do me a favor through your own expertise and time with zero effort on my part, and that's awesome, but I hope you can understand where I'm coming from as well. In any case, as far as I'm concerned, this specific instance is cool at this point as a test of this process and we can go from there. If others come up from now on, I'll consider those case-by-case as well.
At the end of the day, I think it's cool for people to be able to get the stuff they want to decorate their homes and themselves, I'm just somewhat cautious about this sort of thing.
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