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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 8407223" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>But Asmodee doesn't own Star Wars. Disney does. Even if Hasbro bought Asmodee, they wouldn't have the license to make Star Wars video games or movies. They'd just have the rights to make miniature wargames and RPGs. They wouldn't even get the rights to make Star Wars board games because they already have that. There are two flavors of Star Wars Monopoly in print right now, one for Star Wars in general and one specifically for Mandalorian.</p><p></p><p>The only settings that Asmodee owns outright for RPGs are Legend of the Five Rings and Android. L5R would be...let's say problematic to expand outside its niche in RPGs, CCGs, and LARP due to the nature of the setting. Plus Hasbro already owned and sold off L5R. When WotC bought TSR, they bought L5R as part of the deal. They sold it off to AEG who sold it to Fantasy Flight. And Android...the next word out of everybody's mouth with that setting is "Netrunner", which is a game they no longer own the rights to because that game is owned by Wizards of the Coast and thus owned by Hasbro.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention that Hasbro is already licensing off its properties to other RPG companies instead of having Wizards of the Coast make them. Power Rangers, Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony? Those are big-name brands but instead of having their own in-house RPG company make them, they've licensed the titles to Renegade.</p><p></p><p>If Hasbro wants Asmodee, they want Catan. That's where the money is for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 8407223, member: 6669048"] But Asmodee doesn't own Star Wars. Disney does. Even if Hasbro bought Asmodee, they wouldn't have the license to make Star Wars video games or movies. They'd just have the rights to make miniature wargames and RPGs. They wouldn't even get the rights to make Star Wars board games because they already have that. There are two flavors of Star Wars Monopoly in print right now, one for Star Wars in general and one specifically for Mandalorian. The only settings that Asmodee owns outright for RPGs are Legend of the Five Rings and Android. L5R would be...let's say problematic to expand outside its niche in RPGs, CCGs, and LARP due to the nature of the setting. Plus Hasbro already owned and sold off L5R. When WotC bought TSR, they bought L5R as part of the deal. They sold it off to AEG who sold it to Fantasy Flight. And Android...the next word out of everybody's mouth with that setting is "Netrunner", which is a game they no longer own the rights to because that game is owned by Wizards of the Coast and thus owned by Hasbro. Not to mention that Hasbro is already licensing off its properties to other RPG companies instead of having Wizards of the Coast make them. Power Rangers, Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony? Those are big-name brands but instead of having their own in-house RPG company make them, they've licensed the titles to Renegade. If Hasbro wants Asmodee, they want Catan. That's where the money is for them. [/QUOTE]
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