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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9444141" data-attributes="member: 18182">I'm mostly riding the same train as you are [USER=6801845]@Oofta[/USER], but . . .The MtG Pinkerton issue was pretty lousy on WotC's part. Different division of the company from the D&D guys, but relevant still. A MtG YouTuber got some product from a retailer early, a product WotC wasn't ready to have spoiled on the intertubes. A reasonable mistake on the retailer's part, and the YouTuber felt that since he was sold the product, there would not be a problem showcasing it in a video. Plus, the product the YouTuber actually ordered vs the one he got had very similar, confusing names. WotC's solution? Send the Pinkertons to pressure the guy into giving up the product he paid for legally, which in a matter of a month or so, everybody else would have as well. The Pinkertons are a security agency with a long, sordid history of strong-arming folks for corporations.WotC eventually did make it right with the YouTuber in question, without really apologizing for the issue. And it was a while ago.But the rest of that long laundry list of WotC complaints? Yeah, overblown. Many are true mistakes or at least concerning, but overall very minor, in the past, and often corrected by WotC. Some aren't mistakes, but simply choices made that some folks don't like. But hey, if you are a gamer with an axe to grind, keep stoking the forge with all of that!It's beginning to make me rethink my own frustrations with WotC. When their "crimes" get listed out like that, and I realize that most of them don't bother me in the slightest, I realize that the cranky gamers have infected my thoughts! It's a lot like my reaction to "The Phantom Menace" back in the day. When I first saw the film in theaters, I cheered out loud and whooped! I never do that! But then the loud and cranky fan faction started complaining about the film, and I drank the kool-aid and "hated" the prequels. I've since come back to normalcy. They're good, if not great movies! Not that they hold a candle to the original trilogy, of course!</blockquote>

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