That’s quite telling, thanks for sharing.
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caseofthematts@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m just going to post this comment to this thread as well, since this is newer.
Fun fact: Funko’s current CEO is the ex-president of Wizards of the Coast!
Why is this relevant? Well, under her leadership, WotC sent pinkerton agents to someone’s home to threaten them because they got some Magic the Gathering cards early. She said things like Dungeons & Dragons players were under-monetised, pushing to make the Table Top game more like a microtransaction-filled video game, and helped with the OGL scandal.
The OGL, for anyone unfamiliar, was an Open Gaming License WotC had for years with D&D 3rd party creators. It allowed certain things to be created using D&D mechanics and lore by anyone that followed its guidelines and allowances. A couple years ago, WotC tried to change that so they would make more money off of people trying to create things for D&D - to profit off of indie creators passionate about the game. There was a huge backlash, and they eventually went back on this decision.
All this to say, you can see what kind of leader the current Funko CEO is, and what’s happening with itch isn’t surprising to me.
donuts@lemmy.world 1 week ago
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Name the CEO. Image too, or wiki link.
Let’s stop letting scummy people hide behind brands and companies.
tb_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Might as well add those details to your comment.
Cynthia Williams
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Hell yeah! Thank you. I would have but was on spotty mobile
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
We need to compile a list of shitty executives for boycotting purposes. No more “this company did a bad thing”. No. We need exactly this, with “this is David Davidson, who led the enshittification of ABC, Inc”
It needs to be a document, a wiki, of exactly the shitty things those people did so that businesses will have monetary reasons to want to avoid shitty executives.
Let’s help those poor, poor companies from being victimized by those awful greedy people. The poor things.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Peter Molyneux is going to require an entire volume bound in leather at this right
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fucking Pinkertons? That’s a company who can use a visit from Luigi.
moody@lemmings.world 1 week ago
Literally the company that RDR2 portrays as the bad guys, that sued the makers of the game and lost because they objectively ARE the bad guys.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
They have also had EVERY opportunity to rename themselves, over a century, and haven’t, which means they want the reputation the name has.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you had a business that boiled down to “corporate mercenary” don’t you think it would be incredibly convenient to have a reputation as a villainous bulldog?
There are very few companies who get to pretend they don’t give a flying shit about people. This is one who will thrive on that reputation. Pinkertons and whatever Blackwater is now.