But thats the thing, they hired private investigators exactly because of the number of leaks. Further reporting states they were there to follow the trail of the cards in order to plug the proverbial hole, not to randomly intimidate this one random youtuber

Why not? Someone is leaking your product and you need to find out who, and private investigators are how you do that. More in depth reporting on this reveals this was exactly the point of them, to follow the paper trail, not to specifically intimidate this one guy who definitely didn’t get these illegally i pinky…

No i dont. He got product under dubious circumstances and instead of doing anything decent about it, like contacting the seller or wotc, he spoiled it all in his YouTube channel for money. Hes not a victim here.

Here’s the thing with the material being shown. Its visceral topical and sensitive, thus by making it into a game, aside from anything else, you are sending the message its ok to make it into a game. People will have things to say about that

You literally left this comment on someone making a prediction based on being unimpressed with the handling of the issue at hand, who also ended their comment with “happy to be proven wrong”

Body cams are an excellent solution for holding police accountable, provided there’s the legislatural framework to prosecute them and body cams are actually ON when it matters.

What do you mean “if you belive all art is political”?. How can art not be political. Unless its literally pong or smth, all art has a message explicitly or implicitly thus it can’t not be political

What does their intent have to do with anything? The thing that is being ans should be criticised is the game itself. Intent is irrelevant, impact and the thing itself is what matter, aka what message does the work send, what does it advocate for, what does it glorify, who does and doesn’t it hold into acount, what…

The its capitalism/people wanna play this game defense, aside from stupid for the reasons you mentioned, plus a whole set of others (like the its capitalism statement itself making everyhting instantly even more political etc), is at its most nonsensical when you realise it describes... The motive. We literally aren't…

Its not kotaku readers making political, its an inherently political choice, as is every part of this game, and its a relevant and topical political subject too, which involves real people being killed at the momment.

Its not damned if you do damned if you don’t, its that all decisions are political in this context

No one is judging the game prematurely. People are judging the game based on what we jave seen. As the article says, it might be a game that examines the ways in which police overuses violence and how there are real flaws in the system. But based on what we have seen and other games, it’ll probably end up glorifying…

Yea dude. The fact you are playing a cop shooting real people in the real world matters. Ofc its not the same with when you are playing a random post apocalyptic citizen shooting zombies, or even other people.

Is this about the youtuber? Because it sure sounds like “not sorry for doing it sorry for getting caught “ applies more to the guy who proceeded to leak the entire set after getting it by accident instead of contacting the seller or wotc. And this is provided he didn't steal it or knowingly buy stolen goods

I mean hes automatically not innocent since he knowingly leaked the whole thing 

I think its more that they are concerned people are stealing from them or collaborating with retailers to leak stuff on purpose because there's been more leaks than average lately. Ergo rhe private investigators

Why is wotc an awful company for this? They sent private detectives to a guy who leaked their entire new set. I don’t see how anything here is a problem. Had he not leaked the set he at beast got by accident and at best on purpose none of this would have happened

Another in a long list of “play stupid games win stupid prizes”

“the product does a fine job at teaching the game “

Yea exactly