The Business: GW's Latest Legal Fuckery (& More)

Arch talks about G-Dubs' latest fuckery.

This, as Arch notes, is not the first time that GW did this.

This is also, as Arch notes, not just GW doing this.

This is part of a trend by corpos using lawfare to shut down anything at all looking askance at them. We're not even close to where Axanar was when Paramount nuked them from orbit; this is a passing resemblance in one blink-and-you-miss-it shot in a trailer we're talking about.

Yes, GW is that petty; remember the lawsuit over "Space Marine" that ended up going MCA Hoegarth's way, forcing GW to asspull renames because they couldn't lawfare others into not using "Space Marine" or "Imperial Guard" anymore? We're on that level of petty here, and others (e.g. Trench Crusade) are now following suit.

Not that GW was done there. Pat has more.

GW flubs a release. Tuesday.

That's not the issue (but it is an issue).

The issue is refusing to fix a problem that GW is responsible for, knowing full well that the buyers lack the means to enforce their rights so they can just screw the customer even harder while capitalizing on the success of a tie-in product in order to buoy revenue during Yet Another Fucking Edition Turnover.

Chimping out is in order here.

No, not unhinged ranting. I mean the effective kind; if Pat were to have included links to legal authorities able to coerce corrective action out of GW, that would be effective chimping.

This is a Consumer Rights issue. The Yookay, occupied and deliberately dysfunctional as it is, still has those things and those agencies- use them. You're not whining about Pakis and rapists, so they may actually do something about it. Here in the US, this is a Federal agency: The Federal Trade Commission. Drop them a line, with all the information they ask for and more, and do so in massive numbers (so yeah, spread that link around). The FTC is SLOW, but when it hits it does so like a colony drop; GW can't ignore the damage.

Oh, and if you GW people on YT want a hint: see that above paragraph? Cut a video; show the link(s), and have a template ready to copy/paste for the complaint. Call To Action, friction minimized, Great Success.