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

[overgeeked]

Wil Wheaton’s on fire over this. He’s good people.

The reddit thread is far more informative than you’d expect.

 

[Guest 7031328]

Wil Wheaton’s on fire over this. He’s good people.

The reddit thread is far more informative than you’d expect.

edit- Wasn't aware of a functionality with direct links. In any case, if anyone else is having issues accessing the link directly from the post like I was, it appears to be a megathread at the very top of the dndnext subreddit currently.

 

[darjr]

The Reddit link worked for me. It here is a text link if it helps

Link

 

[Scribe]

Wil Wheaton’s on fire over this. He’s good people.

The reddit thread is far more informative than you’d expect.

oh man. I picked a good time to peek at this forum I guess.

Shame I missed the leaks...but oh well.

 

[ersatzphil]

The Reddit link worked for me. It here is a text link if it helps

Link

Wait, isn't Wil Wheaton's reddit account u/wil ? I don't see him posting about this anywhere?

 

[overgeeked]

Wait, isn't Wil Wheaton's reddit account u/wil ? I don't see him posting about this anywhere?

His Facebook.

 

[Scribe]

Well...this served me very well during the OGL fiasco.

naughty word WotC

 

[Lanefan]

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.

That's just it - while I'll grant it's reasonable for Wizards to try to get the cards back I don't think they've any right to expect to succeed if the person who now owns them doesn't want to give them up. WotC doesn't own those cards any more.

It's reasonable that WotC be given an opportunity to look at the boxes to get print run etc. details to help them investigate the leak, but (unless outright stolen) the cards belong to the end buyer who has - one has to assume in good faith until-unless proven otherwise - paid for them.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Mod Note:

Some of the irritation at this situation is turning into eroding civility in this thread. I understand being agitated about this for any number of reasons, but taking jabs at fellow ENWorlders isn’t going to solve anything.

So if you’re hearing your heartbeat in your ears and you noticed a few blood vessels rising to the surface as you’re reading this story and thread…step back a moment and breathe deeply before posting.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes, it's a gross move. Doing some good things doesn't remove all the absolutely horrible things they have done and what they represent in this country. I'm not telling other people what to do with their money, but I will not support a company who utilizes an organization like that if they don't make it abundantly clear that they've made a mistake and wont' do so again.

I can't think like that, or I'd be unable to buy groceries, or even accept my paycheck.

Remote, material cooperation with evil.