Sorry, that laugh was a result of clumsy fingers on my phone.
I'm more amused at the fact that the context of the quote clearly shows that to Hasbro D&D is directly equated with other games like Risk, Scrabble and Candy Land in terms of where it stands as a product. Which makes me imagine for a moment that just as there's a crew of 7 managing the D&D brand I now wonder if somewhere in Hasbro's corporate HQ there's a 7-man team working on the best way they can leverage Candy Land into a juggernaut, all the while glaring out the window in Renton's direction, grimacing in anger at the new high bar that has been set for ALL Hasbro titles this quarter.
They said the pop-a-matic was a gimmick. They said it was a rip off of a classic, Parcheesi. They said all the cool kids wanted the card based movement of Sorry.
Well my friends they were wrong. Trouble is back. The one true move-your-guy-around-the-board-to-home-base is getting it's props from the Hasbro investor call, and that can only mean good things for the future.
Yeah, 5e wasn't exactly in very good company in that statement, was it?
Risk, Scrabble, Trouble, Life, Candy Land, CLUE. Are you saying this is bad company?
Those games are pretty much rites of passage in the US.
I wonder how long before we can get a "no support" sub-board. It might be better for everyone if the no support supporters could have a place to commiserate together, rather than post their lamentations in every other thread here...
Yeah, 5e wasn't exactly in very good company in that statement, was it?
Risk, Scrabble, Trouble, Life, Candy Land, CLUE. Are you saying this is bad company?
Those games are pretty much rites of passage in the US.
Us board gamers are trying to change that to Catan, Carcasonne, Ticket to Ride, King of Tokyo, just to show people that games can be fun instead of mindless drek.
Board game badwrongfun snobbery?
I've had alot of fun with those games, especially with my kids. :shrug: