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I've put a lot of money into EA over the last few years, and companies like EA; I've been scorched by the release of Diablo 3. This community is like an oasis in a cost-benefit desert. The amount of content here, the amount of time that people put into creating and maintaining and updating that content, is overwhelming. The people here are doing it for fun, because they love it; and it's good to see that the shepherd tending the flock has the same values. Gaming has always been a business, but a business that was once for the most part dominated by a sort of "by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts" culture. Over the last few years, it is becoming more clear how polluted that culture can feel when it becomes fine tuned as an industry. Good and bad comes with that when you really break it all down; you want to see people with talent that create incredible content get paid for their work, get rewarded with the time to continue making that content; like any other art or craft, you want them to be able to pay the bills by doing what they love, and you want to personally continue reaping those "wow" moments you have when you use their content. But when you get waist deep in stockholders, you aren't talking about a culture, a set of people who have any sort of vested interest in the devices they use to make their money. You're talking about people who have vested interest in a modus operandi: I put money in, and get more money out than I put in. There is nothing about buying and selling shares that creates an incentive for any other sort of value judgments. Some traders still buy stock based on what they like, what they want to enable, but as the increase in high frequency trading over the last few years shows, they are a dying breed; and they always were kinda scarce. I'm not a Marxist, but the simple fact is, there are some things in life that are worth putting more money into than you get back out of. Love can't be privatized OR legislated; all you can do is give people the space to share. It's really nice to see a community still dedicated to keeping the stream that they share along clear and pure. Keep up the good work.