LordGrise
07-12-2012, 02:17 PM
Ok, originally I was going to post this in the AB thread over at the other table there. But the more I wrote, the more it felt like an attempt to hijack the thread. So, herewith: (width? I dunno, night shift/dayshift swapover is doing weird things to my thinking...)
Concerning the latest not-understandable (Chaos has infiltrated GW management! has to be!) legal maneuver GW has performed - cease-and-desist on Army Builder - I just don't get it. I mean, I understand protecting your IP. I have no issue with that - you created it, you want to make money off it.
But Cease and Desist on AB is just dumb; you're ticking off your own customers and quite arguably impeding your own sales, since one of the things about AB is that it tends to highlight what you DON'T have yet. (Oooo, shoppy list! Gotta get 'em all, gotta get'em all... NO! Bad fingers. Not done here. Must post first. THEN we shoppy. We'll go to FW in a little bit...) Sorry - uhm, as I was typing...
So, fully understanding that this is probably an unanswerable question... why does GW not either form partnerships with folks like these who (kinda) ride their coat-tails, or just buy them out? That's been my biggest thing with the entire Chapterhouse debacle - if they're doing add-ons to your product lines, and making a buck doing it, why not just show up on the front doorstep with a suitcase of money in one hand and a baseball bat in the other? Unleashing the lawyers just makes for fat lawyers... and not all of them yours. Does nothing for the bottom line except create tax write-offs.
(NO! Gimme my wallet! Mine! Mine...!
Concerning the latest not-understandable (Chaos has infiltrated GW management! has to be!) legal maneuver GW has performed - cease-and-desist on Army Builder - I just don't get it. I mean, I understand protecting your IP. I have no issue with that - you created it, you want to make money off it.
But Cease and Desist on AB is just dumb; you're ticking off your own customers and quite arguably impeding your own sales, since one of the things about AB is that it tends to highlight what you DON'T have yet. (Oooo, shoppy list! Gotta get 'em all, gotta get'em all... NO! Bad fingers. Not done here. Must post first. THEN we shoppy. We'll go to FW in a little bit...) Sorry - uhm, as I was typing...
So, fully understanding that this is probably an unanswerable question... why does GW not either form partnerships with folks like these who (kinda) ride their coat-tails, or just buy them out? That's been my biggest thing with the entire Chapterhouse debacle - if they're doing add-ons to your product lines, and making a buck doing it, why not just show up on the front doorstep with a suitcase of money in one hand and a baseball bat in the other? Unleashing the lawyers just makes for fat lawyers... and not all of them yours. Does nothing for the bottom line except create tax write-offs.
(NO! Gimme my wallet! Mine! Mine...!