I don’t care whether you have a side on this or not. My own commentary has nothing to do with what I think should or will happen on the case. I’m not emotionally invested in anything. Perhaps one useful piece of evidence of this is that I’m not running around trying to assign a bunch of random motives to anyone.
And as I said, you are welcome to it. But your attempts to support this opinion have been bad. Really bad.
You know what’s way more important than the appearance and public perception of the lawsuit?
The actual lawsuit.
You know I know that? It (1) involves something they created and appear to have loved and still love (2) they face losing that thing and (3) it’s an extremely fucking expensive fight to try not to lose it and (4) this is Paul and Fred’s resources on the line. Not some corporation’s money. Their own. The same thing isn’t true for Stardock.
No PR will impact the case directly. All it could impact is (1) the decision making of either party in the case or (2) the ability to raise money via the GoFundMe The legal fund is simply one part of what P&F will use to make a decision to keep going/settle/etc. These are “facts” as you call them.
If the PR (by either side) is supposed to influence decision making, it has utterly failed because this is full steam ahead and so far there hasn’t been any suggestion there will be a settlement. Those discussions won’t happen publicly of course, and the Lawyers will probably keep that avenue open. And they have may have been talks behind the scenes. But so far, we don’t know where those things sit. If you think it’s possible Paul and Fred could have presented the gofundme “differently” and gotten better negotiation leverage. . . well that’s an argument. I think it’s a flimsy argument, but I’m open minded.
The motives behind the legal fund are never going to be fully known, as I said. Maybe they thought it was a way to try an attract a bigger lawyer. Maybe they thought it could help change Stardock’s mind, or be an additional tool when it came to negotiation. No idea. But that time is past, and there’s no evidence whatsoever Stardock would back down. Initiating the lawsuit included a non trivial amount of backlash and that didn’t stop them. Additionally, the strategic decision making for the lawsuit is. . . well it’s odd but again we don’t know everything. In either case, I do know the gofundme represents a way to mitigate risk on P&F’s side (even if it won’t mitigate very much). That’s also a fact. Whoopity do.
[quote] I did not say whether i cared if they raised money, I frankly don’t. I find it interesting that they decided it was a good idea to do it that way when they could have done it differently and avoided the negatives that surfaced in people’s opinions because of it. I am not saying those opinions are wrong or right, I am saying they were formed by people.I think that could have been avoided.
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The negatives in people’s opinions, in this thread, are largely gibberish. Here, let me give you another example:
Paul and Fred are being sued. They stand to lose their creations/properties, and the only recourse they have is to pay money out of their own pocket to fight it. The idea that the gofundme is being done to “benefit themselves economically” is insane.
You think they should have taken another tack with the legal fund, but you haven’t actually made a good argument as to why. It’s just feels on your part. That’s deeply ironic given that you think I am “emotionally invested”. The thing is, feels aren’t automagically invalid. It’s ok to not like what they are doing based on your feelings, and to exercise your right not to donate. But don’t act like it’s anything other than feels driving you.
What is it you think this accomplished? Again, if you think it hurt the godfundme. . . maybe. I doubt it. But maybe.
