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**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Again thanks for the clarification

Think I get what is going off now the penny has dropped.
I didn't get the computer gaming aspect and was thinking minis.

Am I correct in thinking that the add ons are the peripheral upgrades people buy on MMORPG's?
I don't fully understand the click through thing as I am even less informed about online gaming than that which happens on the table top! And that is saying something!

**Laughing Man**

Am I correct in thinking that the add ons are the peripheral upgrades people buy on MMORPG's?

Add-ons are the various modifications people download for MMOs for free. Actually selling them is often against the ToS (or, at the very least, it's against Blizzard's), although not a violation of IP rights.

**Kanluwen**

Laughing Man wrote:http://www.curse.com/

They host addons, for free, along with various MMO-related news. They also sell a subsciption based premium version of their addon-installation client.

If they actually advertised anything Games Workshop, you'd be right. Most of their clickthrough traffic, however, leads to Curse Inc and its sites--which is generating them money at the expense of Games Workshop.

No it doesn't. It generates them money in a manner completely unrelated to GW's revenue streams, while promoting GW's WHFB IP to the internet-going public. Since GW has absolutely no interest in the MMO add-on market, saying that they're losing money due to Curse's actions is rather silly.

Of course, soliciting donations under the guise of a fan site while in actuality funneling said revenue into your corporate coffers is an entirely different matter, and would probably merit criminal charges (fraud, for instance) rather than the civil ones GW is pursuing. As I'm not familiar with the matter, I'll refrain from commenting further on the matter for now.

They had to change their site due to the lawsuit, and that was months ago.

And as for "warhammeralliance"--the case was that it generates them money that should be going to Mythic Entertainment(the owners and operators of Warhammer: Age of Reckoning), who are in turn paying to GW for licensing. GW's responsible for ensuring that their licensees are given as much support as possible, and to ensure nothing is done that could damage the integrity of the game or their licensed property.