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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DinoInDisguise" data-source="post: 9453834" data-attributes="member: 7045806">The argument was that it was overblown.Based on the Polygon article at the time, link below, there can be an argument for this. The person was asked for the product back and refused, as an example. And that the article even points out that such tactics aren't uncommon in cases like that. Citing a 2021 Pokemon trading card game incident. Or that the youtuber changed their story about the incident.So the argument might be that people want to hate WotC so bad, they find reasons to by exaggerating the "bad" aspects. And you can argue, although I'm not getting into it, downplaying the good.We can see this in recent events, with a layoff followed, months later, by a hiring. This is far from abnormal practice. But the reaction was pure vitriol. It doesn't actually matter what the reasons for either action were, or if they were warranted. WotC did it, so it has to be bad.And in that very thread people who point this out, that this behavior is normal and could very easily be warranted, were just dismissed as "shills." You may see that same reaction to this post.The community has two wings to it. Both treat WotC unfairly. One to the positive, one to the negative. Hussar is, from my understanding, just calling out the latter for what it is. Just like so many call out the former in similar manner.So making it into something so binary, as you do with your quoted comment, is a disservice to the argument at hand. But that's just my understanding.Polygon article: <a href="https://www.polygon.com/23695923/mtg-aftermath-pinkerton-raid-leaked-cards" target="_blank">Magic publishers sent Pinkerton agents to a YouTuber’s house to retrieve leaked cards</a></blockquote>

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