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Author Topic: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.  (Read 2338 times)

honeydipperdavid

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #45 on: August 21, 2023, 07:45:16 PM »
Best case scenario for Hasbro is they spin off the digital studio for stock, that's the best they can do.  If they spin of D&D and retain the digital rights, they will have no control over the direction of future games.  If D&D gets unshackled from Hasbro and they have to pay their own bills, the writing and direction will revert to the norm.  Hasbro's blessed ESG score can't handle releasing good games with normal values.

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #46 on: August 22, 2023, 05:46:05 AM »
One important fact that I bet Hasbro didn't even stop to consider- WOTC has screwed the pooch on every single digital initiative that they have attempted.

DNDBeyond is awesome and has been for many years.

That was not a WOTC property.  It was a third party product that licensed D&D.  IT was purchased by WOTC just a few months ago.  I don't think that counts as a success for WOTC.

That and wotc plans to make it potentially obsolete once their VTT goes live, if ever. Unless someone over there rubbs 2 brain cells together and realizes it would be better to merge the two.

Problem is that alot of people left during the OGL uproar and a chunk never came back.

honeydipperdavid

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #47 on: August 22, 2023, 08:19:58 AM »
I for one would love to see a VTT only version of D&D 6E.  Get rid of the paper, require a subscription, modernize D&D.  In fact, we should all be encouraging WotC to do this.  We should also encourage WotC to commit to the contract, do not renew any contingencies with printers, fire their writing staff, hire all coders, maybe hire some match 3 game designers to build mini-games, hire Critical Role voice actors to do all the voices and get ChatGPT to write all modules.  It will be all profit for Hasbro.

It would take 2 to 3 years before we could bankrupt WotC and get Hasbro to sell of their IP.  Just go on X and Dnd Beyond with sock puppets and cheer it on, talk about how much non-existent money you'll spend on it.  I want this one to crash and burn.

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #48 on: August 22, 2023, 06:26:17 PM »
I for one would love to see a VTT only version of D&D 6E.  Get rid of the paper, require a subscription, modernize D&D.  In fact, we should all be encouraging WotC to do this.  We should also encourage WotC to commit to the contract, do not renew any contingencies with printers, fire their writing staff, hire all coders, maybe hire some match 3 game designers to build mini-games, hire Critical Role voice actors to do all the voices and get ChatGPT to write all modules.  It will be all profit for Hasbro.

It would take 2 to 3 years before we could bankrupt WotC and get Hasbro to sell of their IP.  Just go on X and Dnd Beyond with sock puppets and cheer it on, talk about how much non-existent money you'll spend on it.  I want this one to crash and burn.

1) Hasbro will never sell their IP. 2) No one should care about the IP - you can play D&D in a variety of ways that doesn't benefit WotC. Arguably better then the shit they offer now 3) WotC is going to slit their own throat in this venture when it comes to TTRPG's as a hobby - but it might work for them as a videogame company - we should encourage this. 4) We should stop hugging the balls of the D&D brand WRIT LARGE. Start making original stuff for people that want to play and pay for it. Stop framing your engagement in the hobby by the Corporate Brand that is not the brand most of us started with, and gives no shits about you, or your concerns over its actions. They do not care.

Support independent gaming companies that produce good stuff. Make your own content and if you are daring, PUBLISH IT/SHARE IT with others (if you're generous/communist/or simply want to give back). Promote the latter two categories and become a proselytizer for what you think is good, but be open minded to other opinions.

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #49 on: August 22, 2023, 07:14:19 PM »
Support independent gaming companies that produce good stuff. Make your own content and if you are daring, PUBLISH IT/SHARE IT with others (if you're generous/communist/or simply want to give back). Promote the latter two categories and become a proselytizer for what you think is good, but be open minded to other opinions.
I'm planning some ripoffs of TSR's old dead IPs and I'll release my work into public domain. It's gonna take some time though since I don't have a team of writers on call.

tenbones

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #50 on: August 22, 2023, 07:21:43 PM »
Well legal issues aside - good luck.

You don't need a team of writers, you only need discipline, passion and determination.. I did a half-a-book with Mearls back in the day, in a month. I churned out over 120k words (about 30% of edited out for space reasons - otherwise the book would have been massive) - while working full time at Microsoft, with a newborn keeping me at 3-hrs of sleep a night.

It can be done.

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #51 on: August 24, 2023, 04:25:22 AM »
We all know wotc will somehow find a way to fuck it up.

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Re: Hasbro wants to become a digital games giant.
« Reply #52 on: August 24, 2023, 08:24:46 AM »
DNDBeyond is awesome and has been for many years.

...[since]...

April 2022

For some values of "many".
Old School? Back in my day we just called it "School."