The Butcher
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Éditions Sans Detour is the French publisher who puts out the beautiful, amazing French translation of CoC.
In March 2017 they crowdfunded a French translation of Masks of Nyarlathotep, to the tune of nearly 2000 backers.
The project is late, as crowdfunded projects are wont to be.
Now Chaosium claims ESD’s license expired in October 2018 due to unpaid royalties and “other problems” and they are forbidden from publishing the material they crowdfunded.
Even if Chaosium is right (and TBH ESD’s communique admits that they owe them royalties) this sounds like a remarkably shitty way of handling the fracas. Fans who had been going apeshit at ESD for the delay are now going apeshit over Chaosium’s “tough luck” statement.
Which is particularly rich considering Chaosium’s own history of (1) welching on royalties (just ask Michael Moorcock) and (2) bungling crowdfunding efforts (CoC7, anyone?).
In March 2017 they crowdfunded a French translation of Masks of Nyarlathotep, to the tune of nearly 2000 backers.
The project is late, as crowdfunded projects are wont to be.
Now Chaosium claims ESD’s license expired in October 2018 due to unpaid royalties and “other problems” and they are forbidden from publishing the material they crowdfunded.
Even if Chaosium is right (and TBH ESD’s communique admits that they owe them royalties) this sounds like a remarkably shitty way of handling the fracas. Fans who had been going apeshit at ESD for the delay are now going apeshit over Chaosium’s “tough luck” statement.
Which is particularly rich considering Chaosium’s own history of (1) welching on royalties (just ask Michael Moorcock) and (2) bungling crowdfunding efforts (CoC7, anyone?).