Thread 96746432

The Warboot fallout continues. Will Siege survive this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYFUZWE3wg

Why are mini companies becoming so scummy?

>>96746432 (OP)
>Why are mini companies becoming so scummy?
they have no money

Why the hell do people work for companies that don't pay them? Do they think that a company that isn't capable of paying them today will suddenly turn around and be able to tomorrow?

>>96746432 (OP)
Small businesses are often run by shitbags. Peter principle in action.

>>96746535
The mini company fears the 3d printer

As a Britanon with something of an addiction to wargames Bring and Buy sales, I was quite aware of the whole Warboot attempted copyright fiasco. Just figured it was too niche and dull to mention on here.

The Siege Studios guy strikes me as that particular type, that sees opportunity to make money in what's quite a communal environment. The only piranha in the pond. Wargaming isn't a big industry outside of GW basically becoming EA. I'm just a guy of no real note, and yet I am mutuals with various companies and artists and such. You don't get that in a lot of hobbies.

Combined with how sketchy and ill-thought a lot of commission painting is (I'm sure we've all had a friend who thinks they can try it) I'm not surprised.

>>96746711
some fine blisterpacks you have there sir

Seems like theres a lot the guy in the video is not saying desu - hope some ex painters do come out and tell all

>>96746547
Fell for the exposure meme.

>>96747236
It's more that they wouldn't pay artists for thier last job when it became clear they were leaving the company

>>96746432 (OP)
Ok

>>96746547
>t. never in his life worked for a commission or a percentage
I won't say "lucky you", because you aren't anyway, but "clueless" definitely fits

Quick rundown? Have been in Gaza for the last year.

>>96747979
Warboot is a term of art in the UK for a wargaming boot sale - known more colloquially in North America as a swap meet or rummage sale.

It's a pretty commonplace occurrence and there are a number of organized warboots already extant in the British wargaming community.

Two weeks ago, Siege Studios' CEO attempted to copyright the term "warboot" and started issuing cease-and-desist letters to those preexisting organizers.

It did not go over well and now all of Siege Studios' dirty laundry is hitting the web.

>>96748529
lol that does seem particularity stupid.
Not only pushy and alienating, but not for any significant gain either.

>>96746547
A lot of the time it's not intentional by the creator, it's the company being scummy. I've had plenty of times where I've worked freelance for a company and they've tried to stiff me or trick me into working for free. I fell for it twice when I was younger but common shit includes things like:
>initially paying regularly for work and then acting like there's an issue in their finance department that will delay a payment, expect you to still deliver on a project, but then never paying you and cutting ties
>bombarding you with documents and contracts, refusing to use yours, and then tweaking them before the final contract is signed
>ignoring your existing portfolio and baiting you into doing work as an "example exercise" to give to HR to prove you're suitable, but secretly the example is an actual campaign they're planning to launch and are stealing the best ones from naive freelancers
>trying to buddy up to you and act like you're friends so that it's harder to draw proper professional boundaries, which they then exploit to steal work and concepts that they try to discuss with you outside of working hours
>using tight deadlines, stress, and confusion to cause you to slip up and provide work that isn't technically covered by a contract
>holding payments hostage for legitimate work, which they then claim new work is a part of and won't release funds until its done
>threatening to blacklist if you don't do more than you agreed for the project, even going so far as to put you on other projects without any hint of shame
>putting you into teams and claiming you are all working on the same project as freelancers, but half of them are internal employees looking to take what you're doing before you present it to the company so they don't have to pay you
>simply lying that you didn't do any work for them (this has happened once to me, took them to small claims court, they claimed bankruptcy and opened a second business under a different name but doing the same shit)

>>96746432 (OP)
Good.
Fuck artists. More importantly, fuck art.
Art has been dog shit for multiple generations, be it written, spoken, drawn, painted, sculpted, or otherwise.
As soon as art had Jackson Pollock, Tupac, and Stephanie Myers among their profitable contributors, the entire concept of what constitutes art needed to be blasted off the face of the earth so it can be rebuilt.