Asmodee and MAPP

 

One thing I have always found annoying s companies saying they take violations of street date and MAP violations seriously but never show any evidence of it.  Legend Story Studies publishes a list of retail stores that have been suspended, for unnamed reasons, from selling the company’s Flesh and Blood card game and participating in organized play events which indicates the company takes seriously violations of  its posted rules by  retailers selling the game. Meanwhile, companies such as Wizards of the Coast, The Pokemon Company and Konami says they take seriously and enforce their policies regarding breaking street dates and violating MAP, stores that report violations never see any apparent results from any reports made. Wizards of the Coast has stated a number of times the company welcomes reports of street date violations but does not comment on them and Asmodee NA states specifically in its MAP policy (Section 2:10) that:

“ANA refuses to engage in any communication with Resellers regarding whether a competing Reseller’s advertised pricing behavior is consistent with the ANA MAP Policy. ANA assumes sole responsibility for monitoring and enforcing the MAP Policy and will not discuss such activities with any Reseller, except for the limited purposes of discussing an individual Reseller’s own advertised pricing behavior or penalties relating to the same.”