WotC may have sent the Pinkertons to a magic leakers home. Update: WotC confirms it and has a response.

[Gradine]

She works for a company that very famously does not give a crap about the quality of the work or the working conditions for their writers at their various publications. I suspect she will bounce sooner rather than later. Hopefully she'll land somewhere that will keep her on the RPG beat.

Reminding folks once again that Linda Codega's pronouns are they/them.

 

[Parmandur]

Honestly in retrospect I have the hunch that the whole debacle rose out of Disney and Ravensburger releasing Lorcana, their CCG offering, and executives having a panic attack over how it might impact the M:tG market. "Lock everything down now! Yes, the entire company!"

Yup, I thought of that the first time Brink mentioned Disney.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Reminding folks once again that Linda Codega's pronouns are they/them.

Fixed. I keep forgetting.

 

[Dausuul]

Send a company rep (not a PI, but an actual employee of WotC - preferably someone with some M:tG street cred) to the house with a polite request to see the card boxes, in order to get production/print-run info etc. Otherwise, from the you-tuber's side of things, let it ride for now as a one-off mistake.

So... someone at WotC, with no expertise in this kind of thing (but "M:tG street cred," whatever that means), is going to have to identify the person, find out where they live, get on a plane, fly there, and hope the person is reasonable and doesn't get violent?

And apparently they did make repeated attempts to get in touch by email, unsuccessfully, before they sent someone physically.

There's an argument for just letting the whole thing go. But if you accept that it's reasonable of Wizards to try and get the cards back at all, hiring private security to do the legwork is the only reasonable option I can see if the person won't answer an email or a call.

 

[darjr]

Official statement from WotC on the matter:

As part of an investigation into the unauthorized distribution and disclosure of embargoed product, we repeatedly attempted to contact an individual who had received unreleased cards. After that outreach was unsuccessful, an investigator visited him and asked that he reach out to us as part of our investigation and return the embargoed product and packaging. He agreed to do both. The unreleased product will be replaced by us with the product he intended to purchase. We appreciate the individual’s cooperation and the investigation is ongoing.

Do you have a link? Was this updated in an article?

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Do you have a link? Was this updated in an article?

Magic publishers sent Pinkerton agents to a YouTuber’s house to retrieve leaked cards

March of the Machine: The Aftermath isn’t due out in stores until May

www.polygon.com

Seems to be an update from today (bottom of article).

 

[ersatzphil]

Magic publishers sent Pinkerton agents to a YouTuber’s house to retrieve leaked cards

March of the Machine: The Aftermath isn’t due out in stores until May

www.polygon.com

Seems to be an update from today (bottom of article).

Yep, that’s where I got it from - sorry about that @darjr , I should have cited my sources.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yep, that’s where I got it from - sorry about that @darjr , I should have cited my sources.

In penance, we're going to need you to post in MLA format for the next week.

 

[Maxperson]

Jeezus. How did anybody at WotC or Hasbro think that this would play out well?

Good decisions seem to be a weak point with the company.

 

[ersatzphil]

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