Statement from CGL regarding financial situation, Addressing the rumors Options

[Redjack]

If you don't wish to abide by the TOS, then why stay?

[Mesh]

If you don't wish to abide by the TOS, then why stay?

You assume I believe I am not abiding. That is not the case. If the intent of the rule in the ToS is to prevent spammers from posting a message (like an ad for example) on every thread on the boards, throwing it my face for posting a relevant reply in two nearly identical threads is abusive overmoderation.

[Redjack]

We wrote the TOS. Now you are going to tell us what we meant by it? Rich.

[Mesh]

We wrote the TOS. Now you are going to tell us what we meant by it? Rich.

I don't hear you disagreeing. I do hear you sarcastically mocking a new member.

[WinterScale]

Or you know, if you hate the mild moderation that occurs here, maybe you should choose to leave. Jesus dude, take a chill pill. They're nipping a lot of things in the bud of late, because we've had *rampant* violations recently. If you don't like it how our mods do their job, then there are always other forums to visit.

And Mesh, if the mods warn you about a potential violation with colored text, then that is an indication you are *not* abiding by the TOS. They don't just use that text because it makes them feel saucy.

[Bull]

To turn this back on topic a bit... This was just posted to CGL's site.

Catalyst Game Labs Update

While Catalyst has been publically quiet, we’ve been working behind the scenes these last few weeks, reviewing our processes across the board and changing and updating as necessary, while still working on future products.

As announced on March 20th, a select list of Shadowrun books was put on hold as we negotiated with several freelancers concerning those products. We’re pleased to say that within the last three weeks we’ve been able to make 65 payments to dozens of freelancers covering a variety of projects and resolved the hold issues. This process included completely paying off four books already in print while simultaneously auditing past due contracts in order to continue payments on completed projects. We also chose to pay off a book in preparation for sending it to print. We believe that this three-fold approach of resolving the disputed contracts, establishing a payment plan for completed work, and ensuring new product continues down the pipeline is the best recipe for success at this time.

Catalyst has been in negotiations with some additional parties for weeks concerning how to pay down debts, including making partial payments, turning over stock and so on, as they’ve requested. We’ve been notified that some of these parties are pursuing additional legal means to secure the monies owed despite the negotiations. Our legal counsel has advised that the lawsuit is baseless. As such, Catalyst will defend against it and expect it to be dismissed in the near future. Regardless, we’re continuing our negotiations and will continue to move, as we’ve been doing, to pay debts down as quickly as possible.

Finally, as some of you may have noticed, we’ve just changed the legal text and logos on all our appropriate sites that reference Shadowrun and BattleTech from WizKids to The Topps Company, Inc., per their direction. We’ve been in contact with Topps for weeks regarding these situations. We are currently in negotiations to re-secure the Shadowrun and BattleTech licenses.

[Fuchs]

Catalyst has been in negotiations with some additional parties for weeks concerning how to pay down debts, including making partial payments, turning over stock and so on, as they’ve requested. We’ve been notified that some of these parties are pursuing additional legal means to secure the monies owed despite the negotiations. Our legal counsel has advised that the lawsuit is baseless. As such, Catalyst will defend against it and expect it to be dismissed in the near future. Regardless, we’re continuing our negotiations and will continue to move, as we’ve been doing, to pay debts down as quickly as possible.

That's interesting. Turning over stock? Partial payments? "and so on"? That doesn't sound well at all.

[fistandantilus4....]

I don't hear you disagreeing. I do hear you sarcastically mocking a new member.

When a new member comes on to post almost entirely about the style of moderation, we wonder at their intentions. When you go around baiting the mods with snippy comments and little else, you're going to get replys. Of course, you no doubt realize that. Your first post here was to complain about the moderation, which means that you're here to do little else than flame. It would be nice to say that you're concerned with the style and format of Dumpshock, but that would be more believeable if you'd been posting here before. You came here to pick a fight. Don't pretend to be surprised when you're not cordially received.

Argue moderation in the appropriate area.

[Method]

Unstickied in an effort to consolidate overlapping discussions.
Please direct further discussions to CGL Speculation #6

[Mesh]

Mesh

[Method]

This one is drifting off topic anyway, so I'm going to lock it. Please feel free to continue the CGL discussion in the speculation thread. Thanks!