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Reply To: HEROQUEST – Hasbro / Ludofilia GameZone

December 16, 2021 at 5:27 pm #1703165

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– I’m not angry at them and I lost no money. I am bothered by the way you’re denying the reality that I witnessed. I believe I am overstating their dishonesty to a point, but I am baffled by how you can believe what you’re writing.

They were no more dishonest than Restoration Games? Because Restoration Games made zero announcements or claims about bringing back Heroquest? Restoration bought a trademark; fans found out and jumped all over at what it might mean (it turns out- nothing).

Gamezone claimed they had rights to Heroquest that they did not have. They came clean after they were caught by TGN, but still lied about making a deal with Moon Design. They were booted from their second crowdfunding attempt because they maintained wording that implied that they had rights to the MB game, and only stopped implying this on their final crowdfunding website.

If you want to say that backers by that point all knew, I think you’re right.

I might compare them to TSR- the current company that bought the trademark. It isn’t hard to find out the truth, but there’s still a pretty clear attempt to portray their brand as being a continuation of the old brand.

– I thought they’d still deliver their game because none of this dishonesty meant that they were going to fail to deliver and continually claim that delivery was just around the corner.