Hot take: board games, especially rpgs, are communist. If you have a phone or a pc, everything you need to play the game is free. If you have a printer, a pencil, and some dice, even better. The key limiting factor in how much you can play is other people’s time, which is almost always given freely on a community sharing basis. D&D requires no company, no money, no authority. DMing is distributed from each according to ability to each according to need, and it’s a self organising system. It’s commie AF.
So Hasbro is in this position of “wow, we technically own this communist system that’s really efficient at giving people what they want. Gee, if only it were organised according to the principles of capitalism”, and it just isn’t working because nobody wants D&D to be capitalist. BG3 is the best they’re going to get. They’re never going to trick people into paying for tabletop because people already know how to do it commie style and it’s great.
Hot take: board games, especially rpgs, are communist. If you have a phone or a pc, everything you need to play the game is free. If you have a printer, a pencil, and some dice, even better. The key limiting factor in how much you can play is other people’s time, which is almost always given freely on a community sharing basis. D&D requires no company, no money, no authority. DMing is distributed from each according to ability to each according to need, and it’s a self organising system. It’s commie AF.
So Hasbro is in this position of “wow, we technically own this communist system that’s really efficient at giving people what they want. Gee, if only it were organised according to the principles of capitalism”, and it just isn’t working because nobody wants D&D to be capitalist. BG3 is the best they’re going to get. They’re never going to trick people into paying for tabletop because people already know how to do it commie style and it’s great.