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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 3876059" data-attributes="member: 40359">Well, I wasn't one of the parties involved, but I had heard names named and examples cited, so from what I recall:is pretty much exactly what happened. Although I don't know exactly how much lower the prices were, and there was serious questioning of how new the wrapper was even. But basically publisher A (and C, and D, if I recall) released products that were 100% OGC. Publisher B then released pretty much the exact same content at a lower price immediately afterwards. Legally, it's 100% OGC, so it's fine. Ethically, it's really friggin' rude.There were many, many other complaints against this publisher (including using the "product update" function of RPGNow to spam customers), and the end result was them getting booted from RPGNow (where the majority of this was taking place). RPGNow then revised their own policies to exclude those sorts of products (I don't know what the exact restrictions are, however). That was a couple years ago and I see they are back now selling at RPGNow.Personally, I have no problems with names being named as long as both sides get to fairly represent their side. In fact, some threads at EN World and RPGNet at the time were clear about who was involved. (And since I wasn't one of them, I won't be the one to name names.) The market is better at self-policing if it is informed - as long as it is well informed of both sides. As a both a customer and a freelancer, I would never want to deal with a company that had even half the practices I've heard this one had. Needless to say, this company is on my (thankfully short) personal blacklist.But, in that case it took the retailer to handle the situation if you were wondering how it was dealt with.</blockquote>

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