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Hillside Games, Asheville: The Unfriendly Local Game Store
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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5836264" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Thanks for relaying this, <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention -->@<u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=21473" target="_blank">Sebastrd</a></u> <!-- END TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>What an interesting reply, though!</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><strong>It takes more than one business day to respond?</strong> </span></p><p> </p><p>No, it takes approximately 5 minutes to pick up the phone and apologize and offfer to hand over the domain names. </p><p> </p><p>No offence, guys. You're a game store, not Hasbro. Amanda, have a quick chat with Nate if you really feel you have to, but it doesn't take much. It'll take less time than it took you to write that reply to Sebastrd, above - I don't think The Wyvern's Tale folks will want to hang on the phone and chat for an hour about the weather.</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><strong>However this barrage of attacks is serving to do nothing except inflame a situation that was actually going to be resolved quite peacefully before this all began had we been given more than 1 business day to respond to the initial message.</strong> </span></p><p> </p><p>This is remarkably disingenous. It <em>wasn't</em> going to be resolved peacefully until we all got involved. If it hadn't been reported in the news, nothing would have happened. Here's the timeline:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On <strong>18 February 2012</strong>, Hillside Games, Inc. registered <a href="http://www.thewyvenrstale.com" target="_blank">www.thewyvenrstale.com</a>, .net, .org, .us, .mobi, .info.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-On <strong>27 February 2012</strong>, The Wyvern's Tale LLC, through the medium of Facebook, announced that Hillside Games, Inc registered the aforementioned domain names on the aforementioned date. Let the record show that these announcements did contain some emotional language.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-On <strong>28 February 2012</strong>, the Chief Financial Officer of Hillside Games, Inc. contacted the proprietors of The Wyvern's Tale LLC and demanded that all related posts be removed from Facebook and that The Wyvern's Tale LLC issue a public, written apology, lest they bring suit for libel.</li> </ul><p>So The Wyvern's Tale told us (as in the public) what happened<strong> 9 days</strong> after the event. Not one day, but nine days. And thenthe very next day, Hillside Gamesthreatened them with a lawsuit. So they had their "one business day", and they used it to threaten a frivolous lawsuit. If one day is enough time to threaten a lawsuit, it's enough time to pick up a phone and say sorry. It's now the<strong> 29th February</strong>, the day after their threat. What "message" are they waiting to respond to? They've responded. With a threat. </p><p>As for the "constant barrage of attacks" - here's a good rule of thumb; perhaps they could write it down somewhere so they don't forget:</p><p> </p><p><strong>If you don't want people to criticize you for doing bad things, don't do bad things.</strong> </p><p> </p><p>The people criticizing you aren't the ones in the wrong. You don't get to blame them for your actions.</p><p> </p><p><em>[Edit - I had a list of suggestions here for how to fix the situation, but it's really The Wyvern's Take's place to make those requests, not mine.]</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 5836264, member: 1"] Thanks for relaying this, <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention -->@[U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=21473"]Sebastrd[/URL][/U] <!-- END TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> What an interesting reply, though! [COLOR=darkorange][B]It takes more than one business day to respond?[/B] [/COLOR] No, it takes approximately 5 minutes to pick up the phone and apologize and offfer to hand over the domain names. No offence, guys. You're a game store, not Hasbro. Amanda, have a quick chat with Nate if you really feel you have to, but it doesn't take much. It'll take less time than it took you to write that reply to Sebastrd, above - I don't think The Wyvern's Tale folks will want to hang on the phone and chat for an hour about the weather. [COLOR=darkorange][B]However this barrage of attacks is serving to do nothing except inflame a situation that was actually going to be resolved quite peacefully before this all began had we been given more than 1 business day to respond to the initial message.[/B] [/COLOR] This is remarkably disingenous. It [I]wasn't[/I] going to be resolved peacefully until we all got involved. If it hadn't been reported in the news, nothing would have happened. Here's the timeline: [LIST] [*]On [B]18 February 2012[/B], Hillside Games, Inc. registered [URL="http://www.thewyvenrstale.com"]www.thewyvenrstale.com[/URL], .net, .org, .us, .mobi, .info. [*]-On [B]27 February 2012[/B], The Wyvern's Tale LLC, through the medium of Facebook, announced that Hillside Games, Inc registered the aforementioned domain names on the aforementioned date. Let the record show that these announcements did contain some emotional language. [*]-On [B]28 February 2012[/B], the Chief Financial Officer of Hillside Games, Inc. contacted the proprietors of The Wyvern's Tale LLC and demanded that all related posts be removed from Facebook and that The Wyvern's Tale LLC issue a public, written apology, lest they bring suit for libel. [/LIST]So The Wyvern's Tale told us (as in the public) what happened[B] 9 days[/B] after the event. Not one day, but nine days. And thenthe very next day, Hillside Gamesthreatened them with a lawsuit. So they had their "one business day", and they used it to threaten a frivolous lawsuit. If one day is enough time to threaten a lawsuit, it's enough time to pick up a phone and say sorry. It's now the[B] 29th February[/B], the day after their threat. What "message" are they waiting to respond to? They've responded. With a threat. As for the "constant barrage of attacks" - here's a good rule of thumb; perhaps they could write it down somewhere so they don't forget: [B]If you don't want people to criticize you for doing bad things, don't do bad things.[/B] The people criticizing you aren't the ones in the wrong. You don't get to blame them for your actions. [I][Edit - I had a list of suggestions here for how to fix the situation, but it's really The Wyvern's Take's place to make those requests, not mine.][/I] [/QUOTE]
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