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WOTC Cracking down on posts at ENWorld

Started by Joethelawyer, April 29, 2010, 08:21:37 PM

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ggroy

Quote from: Joethelawyer;377500Yeah I was looking forward to a weekend of heavy duty WOTC bashing.  Alas...

Still, whats it say about the mindset over there that we're reduced to letters from legal over bullshit like this?

Their legal eagles are snorting too much cocaine and drinking at the office.  :rolleyes:

Maybe they're hell bent intent on repeating history again (ie. 1990's TSR), hoping things will be different this time around.

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Quote from: Joethelawyer;377520BTW, you have read my sig about stirring the shit, right?

How can you miss it? It only takes up half the goddamn thread. :/
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Quote from: thecasualoblivion;377525I am of the firm belief that angry internet people don't matter anywhere near how much they believe they do, and that catering to angry internet people often causes more problems than it solves.
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Angry people who are not paying customers, are probably largely ignored by WotC.

Probably the only time a company will ever give into angry people, is if it affects revenue greatly and/or it produces a lot of lawsuits or really bad publicity in the form of government hearings or class action lawsuits.

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Quote from: Joethelawyer;377441From a twitter tweet of the ENWorld owner "Morrus" :

"Eeek. WotC has its lawyers send us letters about member posts now? I  miss The Rouse!"

WTF?  Hopefully he posts the letter.  How stupid is WOTC?  ENWorld is  like the last bastion of supporters outside their own message boards.   Maybe they want the entire message board content of the internet for  their own as well.

I would suspect, if I had to guess, that it has something to do with  people posting shit with proprietary WOTC stuff in it, like power cards  or stat blocks of something they think they own.

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Quote from: Windjammer;377681Too funny. You wait and see, TheRPGSite is next. Or any post with quotes from a 4E book, ever... will be retroactively removed from any message board.
WotC's line of thought is so fucked up on this, it actually wouldn't surprise me.

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Quote from: Nightfall;377477Okay it's offical. WotC's legal department and Hasbro's management team are idiots.

I've been telling people that since they lied about their plans six months before they announced the release of 4e.

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