Baldur’s Gate 3 has made bank for Hasbro, significantly contributing to a 40 percent increase in digital revenue for the company.

  • @vzqEnglish
    52•8 months ago

    Hasbro owns wizards of the coast, which is the owner of the D&D trademark.

        • The OctonautEnglish
          5•8 months ago

          It is completely overblown, and most people seem to be picturing the people from Red Dead Redemption and not a dead brand name that a Swedish security company bought to do collections under. Yes if you have sensitive possessions of a company they will send someone to get it, not trust you to mail it back to them.

          The context that this was to prevent an NDA and happened within a month of someone else breaching an NDA with a leak that had a handful of noisy people declaring D&D dead is also pretty important, but never mentioned. It would never have even been a story without that context.

        • conciselyverbose
          4•8 months ago

          I don’t know the story, but if it’s something that wasn’t supposed to be released, it’s pretty much definitely stolen property. You’re not entitled to keep stolen property because you think it’s cool, and sending PIs to recover stolen property instead of the police is the nice route.

          Showing property that belongs to someone else online and can’t be acquired legitimately is absolutely grounds for an actual police search warrant.

            • bane_killgrind
              3•8 months ago

              Yeah he complied his family was in a house surrounded by a group of men that could have had guns.

            • conciselyverbose
              1•8 months ago

              Knowingly being in possession of stolen property is a crime.

              If there’s no legitimate source and a reasonable person would recognize that it’s stolen by default, you can definitely go to jail.

                • conciselyverbose
                  1•8 months ago

                  It’s generally hard to prosecute because there are plausible other explanations for intent. You don’t have any way of knowing a generic laptop is stolen vs used.

                  Having a unique item from a company you make money covering, that wasn’t ever sold legitimately and you didn’t acquire from any legitimate source, is absolutely something that could get to trial at minimum, if the company is pushing the DA to do so. You’d end up having to have a lawyer convince a jury that “I didn’t know” is believable.

                  The fact that they chose to give the streamer a pass for cooperating doesn’t mean that they couldn’t have perfectly reasonably or successfully pursued charges. Choosing not to do so is more evidence of them choosing the nice way.

        • bane_killgrind
          4•8 months ago

          They said they were going to detain him and seize all of his cards, and make him prove he owns any of them.

          That’s a huge disruption to his life and business.

          It wouldn’t take a genius to be polite enough to be invited inside to talk about stuff, and slowly ramp up the severity enough to keep a guy listening and minimise confrontation.