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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9288100" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Both his wife and multiple neighbours felt threatened and upset by the behaviour of the Hired Goons.</p><p></p><p>The Hired Goons also painted a rather fanciful picture of the consequences of not cooperating, which to a certain extent is to be expected, but is also fundamentally not honest or forthright (not that the guy was, he was somewhat cagey about how he got the products, though apparently everyone agrees it wasn't criminality, but he's an individual, not the representative of a corporation). However, he said that they behaved "cordially" when the spoke to him. It was only after he spoke to his wife and neighbours that he found they'd been behaving less appropriately (including apparent trespassing - they also lied that they had an appointment).</p><p></p><p>No.</p><p></p><p>That's not what amenable means. The issue appears to be that WotC didn't even succeed in contacting him prior to this, not that he was difficult or unpleasant with them. Unfortunately, we only have his account. All WotC said was they didn't "instruct" the Hired Goons to be "intimidating or threatening" (which is <em>very different</em> from saying they<em> weren't</em>), and generically said that they "strongly refute" his account of events, but did not specify what part of his account, or in what way it was supposed to be wrong. Let's be real here, no specifics means they aren't actually refuting anything, they're just a defensive corporate statement in case they end up in court, and don't appear to have tacitly agreed to his version of events. If people actually refute something, they give their own account - but WotC didn't do that at all (AFAICT). You see this over and over in the news - "[politician/actor/CEO] strongly refutes [person's] statement that [crime/corruption/sex scandal] happened" - but when they don't give their own version, it's funny how often it emerges that the "strongly refuted" account was in fact, basically true.</p><p></p><p>Yeah good luck with that. Whilst they may handle the 5E 2024 SRD gracefully (or not, we shall see), they seem to be feet-dragging on the previous-edition SRDs, and the 3D VTT is likely to be a disaster on multiple levels. Even if it succeeds, if it's set up as MTX-heavy and ultra-monetized as WotC's own announcement video for it suggested, it's going be pretty bad PR.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9288100, member: 18"] Both his wife and multiple neighbours felt threatened and upset by the behaviour of the Hired Goons. The Hired Goons also painted a rather fanciful picture of the consequences of not cooperating, which to a certain extent is to be expected, but is also fundamentally not honest or forthright (not that the guy was, he was somewhat cagey about how he got the products, though apparently everyone agrees it wasn't criminality, but he's an individual, not the representative of a corporation). However, he said that they behaved "cordially" when the spoke to him. It was only after he spoke to his wife and neighbours that he found they'd been behaving less appropriately (including apparent trespassing - they also lied that they had an appointment). No. That's not what amenable means. The issue appears to be that WotC didn't even succeed in contacting him prior to this, not that he was difficult or unpleasant with them. Unfortunately, we only have his account. All WotC said was they didn't "instruct" the Hired Goons to be "intimidating or threatening" (which is [I]very different[/I] from saying they[I] weren't[/I]), and generically said that they "strongly refute" his account of events, but did not specify what part of his account, or in what way it was supposed to be wrong. Let's be real here, no specifics means they aren't actually refuting anything, they're just a defensive corporate statement in case they end up in court, and don't appear to have tacitly agreed to his version of events. If people actually refute something, they give their own account - but WotC didn't do that at all (AFAICT). You see this over and over in the news - "[politician/actor/CEO] strongly refutes [person's] statement that [crime/corruption/sex scandal] happened" - but when they don't give their own version, it's funny how often it emerges that the "strongly refuted" account was in fact, basically true. Yeah good luck with that. Whilst they may handle the 5E 2024 SRD gracefully (or not, we shall see), they seem to be feet-dragging on the previous-edition SRDs, and the 3D VTT is likely to be a disaster on multiple levels. Even if it succeeds, if it's set up as MTX-heavy and ultra-monetized as WotC's own announcement video for it suggested, it's going be pretty bad PR. [/QUOTE]
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