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D&D's Best Year Ever - But Hasbro's Goal Is For D&D e-Sports
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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7754405" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Ah corporate executives - they know the buzzwords but they often don't know what they're talking about.</p><p></p><p>An "esports" model for D&D would be quite different from one for Magic the Gathering or Overwatch or whatever because ... D&D isn't competitive. It's cooperative. So you can't actually have a league and have a model like that because it's nonsense.</p><p></p><p>OTOH - spectator D&D already exists and figuring out how to tap into that model is an opportunity. People like to watch D&D livestreams and tapping into that could be a good way to raise revenue. Imagine Hasbro hosted livestreams where they sell advertising - if you can build up the viewership it could be a decent bit of money.</p><p></p><p>I suspect that's what he's talking about when he talks about "esports" - he's either dumbing it down for the mass audience by using a familiar term that is close to what they need to do, or his people have dumbed it down to him and he's just repeating the analyses he's been given. Either way, I suspect that Hasbro will be trying to dip into the livestreaming business around D&D - it would be kind of dumb of them not to if they're also getting into the eSports business in other areas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7754405, member: 19857"] Ah corporate executives - they know the buzzwords but they often don't know what they're talking about. An "esports" model for D&D would be quite different from one for Magic the Gathering or Overwatch or whatever because ... D&D isn't competitive. It's cooperative. So you can't actually have a league and have a model like that because it's nonsense. OTOH - spectator D&D already exists and figuring out how to tap into that model is an opportunity. People like to watch D&D livestreams and tapping into that could be a good way to raise revenue. Imagine Hasbro hosted livestreams where they sell advertising - if you can build up the viewership it could be a decent bit of money. I suspect that's what he's talking about when he talks about "esports" - he's either dumbing it down for the mass audience by using a familiar term that is close to what they need to do, or his people have dumbed it down to him and he's just repeating the analyses he's been given. Either way, I suspect that Hasbro will be trying to dip into the livestreaming business around D&D - it would be kind of dumb of them not to if they're also getting into the eSports business in other areas. [/QUOTE]
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