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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JLowder" data-source="post: 9704305" data-attributes="member: 28003">If you don't understand why most mid-tier and large game and comics publishers had to work with Diamond/Alliance in some capacity, you should talk to more publishers in the market. Those same retailers who complained about Diamond and related companies often had to keep working with them, too, especially in the US.The problems with the earlier failed distributors in the market (Wizards Attic, Osseum) and the problems now with Diamond were all different. Changes to distribution agreements that would have protected people from the bad things that happened with Wizards Attic or Osseum would not have automatically addressed what is happening now with Diamond.Moreover, business partners can often find ways around even the best contract to shift the costs of their failures on to others, often in legal ways. That does not make those actions any less predatory or malicious. And it does not automatically mean the people and companies impacted by these predatory, malicious actions have "failed."The problems GR have to deal with now also hit entertainment and retail specialist multinationals Disney/Marvel and Warner/DC. That, in itself, says that the loopholes Diamond is trying to exploit were far from obvious, even to companies with massive, highly paid legal departments.</blockquote>