We've got smaller, indie-style products that have traditionally not been a good fit for DriveThruRPG on the agenda, but the fact also remains that Waystation Deimos did pretty well there.

It's really interesting that you come to this position because it's not the first time that I've heard small-press developers talking about itch.io as a preferential distributor over DriveThruRPG. As someone who was around back in the day when DTR actually got established, that such reasoning mimics all the discussion of why anyone would go to them as a distributor in the first place makes me laugh.

They've gone from being the newbie upstart which lets developers keep more of the money they earned to The Man who's gouging the little guy who wants to get into the field. You live long enough to become the bad guy or die trying, I guess.

From my perspective, I'm not sure that itch.io has enough public-facing reputation as a distributor for RPGs to justify doing an ongoing open beta for work – but I'm also not sure it doesn't. Promotion is really complicated right now, not because there are too many big players but because the audience has once again become extremely fragmented and it's difficult to reach everyone that might be interested in a product. Ultimately, it probably doesn't matter what storefront you move product through as much as what social media interfaces you promote your product and link to that storefront on. Get that right and it just doesn't matter. Get it wrong and it just doesn't matter.

I love freelancing as a journalist. It makes a lot more money for me when I write about games for an actual publication in writing about games for the Steem blockchain. That is just a simple fact of life that will probably be true forever. I am trying to get back into posting here more than I have, not because of the money but because there is a very small community interested in that content, one that I know exists, and one that I know is hungry for more stuff. A hungry audience goes a long way toward gratifying a writer's need to be read. Maybe it will pay off, maybe it's just adding to my portfolio. We shall see.