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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9255799" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>"So you're saying there is a chance?"</p><p></p><p>I jest but the same was true with TSR & WotC, and WotC and Hasbro. In neither case were there many potential buyers. I think Microsoft is by far the most plausible buyer for either WotC or just the D&D IP, to be real, especially given Hasbro and Microsoft's relatively close links (most of Hasbro and WotC's upper leadership is ex-MS).</p><p></p><p>I'm not suggesting they are selling it, just pointing out it's very rare to see more than a handful of potential buyers for a company like WotC or an IP like D&D.</p><p></p><p>The issue is it's not a simple binary like that. Hasbro has a lot of IPs and a lot of products. WotC is currently doing pretty well where the others are not. This will probably not continue forever, and if you are going to sell, it's much better if you can get a good price, and thus a big injection of cash into your business (avoiding future trouble), than to have to fire-sale something after it becomes unsuccessful. Sure if you always sell off successful bits that's not a long-term way of operating, but equally "he who dies with the most toys wins" isn't a sustainable strategy either - yet it seems to be the one pursued by some companies - Electronic Arts, for example, which like Hasbro, seems like it would die before selling off an IP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9255799, member: 18"] "So you're saying there is a chance?" I jest but the same was true with TSR & WotC, and WotC and Hasbro. In neither case were there many potential buyers. I think Microsoft is by far the most plausible buyer for either WotC or just the D&D IP, to be real, especially given Hasbro and Microsoft's relatively close links (most of Hasbro and WotC's upper leadership is ex-MS). I'm not suggesting they are selling it, just pointing out it's very rare to see more than a handful of potential buyers for a company like WotC or an IP like D&D. The issue is it's not a simple binary like that. Hasbro has a lot of IPs and a lot of products. WotC is currently doing pretty well where the others are not. This will probably not continue forever, and if you are going to sell, it's much better if you can get a good price, and thus a big injection of cash into your business (avoiding future trouble), than to have to fire-sale something after it becomes unsuccessful. Sure if you always sell off successful bits that's not a long-term way of operating, but equally "he who dies with the most toys wins" isn't a sustainable strategy either - yet it seems to be the one pursued by some companies - Electronic Arts, for example, which like Hasbro, seems like it would die before selling off an IP. [/QUOTE]
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