I mean it’s more like if they tried to stop Apple buying another major phone manufacturer. It’s not like they’re trying to shut down the monopoly they already have, they’re just saying they can’t make it bigger by restricting the competition.

I mean it sounds nice if you just happen to have access to a matchmaking service but that just isn’t going to be the case for everyone. A lot of my friends didn’t have that many single female friends. Neither do I for that matter.

They want to restore the patriarchy to its former glory and go back to a time where women couldn’t vote and did what they were told.

Thing is I'm not really concerned with playing it legally when it's no longer available for (first hand) sale legally. I'm generally of the opinion that you should pay for content. But anything where you can't pay for it because it's no longer being sold is fair game in my book. 

All I know is I’ve lost access to more of my physical games over the years than I have my digital ones. Some have been stolen, some left at my parents and getting sold on years after I moved out, possible I even just plain lost some as a kid. Don’t think I’ve ever had a game damaged to the point it isn’t usable but I…

Subtlety isn’t your strong suit I see. No I did not explicitly correct you. But you’d think you’d realise that my aspersions about the source of your information is a hint that you don’t really know what you’re talking about. No they’re generally not in the practice of selling units in unusable unit sizes, there is…

Not to mention it’s often entirely blown out of proportion as an issue. It’s a problem that exists more in potentia than it actually does in reality. We haven’t hit a point where there’s been a significant loss of access to single player digital games. Yes storefronts are starting to shutter for the first generation…

Physical media still has some value to me because there’s actual price competition on it. With only a single storefront to buy it from digital games on consoles are often more expensive than their physical counterparts. And they almost never get permanently discounted. Meaning that for any older game you pretty much…

Make better games, sell more minis, sell more paint for minis. GW isn't prepared to divorce the printing press any time soon though.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. While he was an idiot to upload videos of the new set that doesn’t justify WotC sending hired goons (which is what Pinkerton are, they aren’t merely “private detectives”) to intimidate him and repossess his property.

If you’re getting your information second hand I’m not sure why you’re weighing in. Especially if it’s from someone who was into Warhammer Fantasy, a game that was discontinued 8 years ago.

While I don't find myself defending Kotaku's reporting often the issue here is your reading comprehension. The person being described as nice and apologetic is who they phoned at WotC to try and sort out things afterwards. Given they made his wife cry I doubt the Pinkerton agents were particularly nice or apologetic.

Calling GW the “absolute worst” is kind of over the top. They’re not nearly as litigious since they changed management in 2015, not to mention the mess that was the Chapterhouse lawsuit seemed to teach them a lesson. They're still problematic in some ways but mostly their biggest issue is that they're dinosaurs who…

This isn't strictly true. You can copyright the original elements of a derivative work. But in practice defending or utilising that copyright is a non starter. Because even though you can copyright parts of your fanfiction you can't monetise it because of the elements that infringe on the copyright of the work it's…

It’s only being reported on because it’s funny. People like laughing at people who don't have a clue trying to punch well above their weight.

Shame because Final Fantasy used to have some of the best covers during the PS1 era, at least in Japan and Europe. Clean white background with just the game name and the Amano logo behind it. 

“So by your logic, anyone who didn’t want a plastic tchotchke ALSO literally lost access to a product they purchased.”

What really needs to be done is to target their ability to find potential customers. If there was legislation that would see the practice banned on most mainstream reselling sites (eBay, Facebook marketplace, Craigslist etc) it would go along way to reducing the problem. The harder it is to find customers the harder…

It’s not really that simple though. Demand forecasting is not easy. They have to predict how much people will buy it, often before the product is even announced. Because with lead times on manufacturing and global shipping being as long as they are sometimes they have to commit to those numbers before they’re ready to…

It would probably look less like greenscreen if they’d actually used a greenscreen. He looks like a cutout in a lot of the shots.