Someone’s eager to have another BG3 on their hands. Given Hasbro’s recent moves it wouldn’t surprise me if half of these ended up being cancelled and other half were trying to squeeze as much money out of players as possible. Hasbro thinks D&D is an “under-monetized” brand after all.
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.
Someone’s eager to have another BG3 on their hands. Given Hasbro’s recent moves it wouldn’t surprise me if half of these ended up being cancelled and other half were trying to squeeze as much money out of players as possible. Hasbro thinks D&D is an “under-monetized” brand after all.
And ironically, the only reason BG3 succeeded is because WOTC had nothing to do with it.
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.