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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8890897" data-attributes="member: 18">Oh my god is WotC going for some kind of record of &quot;How bad can you let PR get before doing something about it&quot;? This is definitely going viral at this point.We've been meme'ing on WotC a lot for being Sauron and the One Ring and so on, but it's more WotC is the player and the fanbase is Illidan:[MEDIA=youtube]0gTX2tyZUIw[/MEDIA]Also at this point we're now actually beyond the point at which any kind of &quot;It was a fake leak&quot; story and&nbsp; almost beyond where a &quot;just a big misunderstanding&quot; story can function at all, because mainstream tech publications (and probably soon just plain mainstream publications), YouTubers who rely on the audience thinking they're honest/accurate, and so on are involved. People who wouldn't normally be involved, and who will fact-check any claims WotC makes, especially as they'll have fans saying WotC is lying.We're so far gone now we're beginning to see a real narrowing of the window of what WotC can get away with. Eventually that window will full-on close.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8890897, member: 18"] Oh my god is WotC going for some kind of record of "How bad can you let PR get before doing something about it"? This is definitely going viral at this point. We've been meme'ing on WotC a lot for being Sauron and the One Ring and so on, but it's more WotC is the player and the fanbase is Illidan: [MEDIA=youtube]0gTX2tyZUIw[/MEDIA] Also at this point we're now actually beyond the point at which any kind of "It was a fake leak" story and almost beyond where a "just a big misunderstanding" story can function at all, because mainstream tech publications (and probably soon just plain mainstream publications), YouTubers who rely on the audience thinking they're honest/accurate, and so on are involved. People who wouldn't normally be involved, and who will fact-check any claims WotC makes, especially as they'll have fans saying WotC is lying. We're so far gone now we're beginning to see a real narrowing of the window of what WotC can get away with. Eventually that window will full-on close. [/QUOTE]

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