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Revelation34 posted...

They were pretending to be cops.

Basically, WotC hired a company with a looong history of harassment, abuse, and violence to recover something from a YouTuber who received it early by accident, by 100% legal means, and who was under no NDA obligations. After making almost no effort to actually contact him through legitimate channels or otherwise address the issue by civilized means or through official channels. And then those agents engaged in harassment, abuse, and implied threats of violence to get what they wanted... in spite of the fact that, because of how US postal law works, they had literally no legal right to do so (you're not actually obligated to return a product if it's accidentally sent to you prior to the street release date - you're only culpable if you deliberately took action to acquire it ahead of time).

WotC essentially overreacted to a relatively meaningless leak for PR reasons, and in the process created a PR clusterfuck of astronomical proportions. It may be the worst thing they've done recently - which is incredibly impressive considering they've spent the last few years acting like cartoonish supervillains.

At this point a fire that burns down their entire office and kills half their staff would probably do less damage to the company than they've been doing to themselves.