D&D Beyond teams up with Wikia (Fandom)

[Ash Mantle]

Not sure if this has made the newsrounds yet, but it appears that Fandom (formerly known as Wikia) has teamed up with Curse Entertainment, and now own it and D&D Beyond.

Announcement of this news starts at around 5:19 into the Twitch VOD
[video]https://www.twitch.tv/videos/348564609[/video]

And also posted to YouTube
[video=youtube;7onXMyKyrQg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7onXMyKyrQg[/video]

 

[oreofox]

I saw something similar to this over on an mmorpg forum that is owned by Curse. So, did Fandom purchase Curse from Twitch, purchase Twitch, or were purchased by Twitch? I know Wikia was into aggressive ad placement on all their websites, so this is probably a bad thing.

 

[Ash Mantle]

I saw something similar to this over on an mmorpg forum that is owned by Curse. So, did Fandom purchase Curse from Twitch, purchase Twitch, or were purchased by Twitch? I know Wikia was into aggressive ad placement on all their websites, so this is probably a bad thing.

Good questions, oreofox, seems like Curse got purchased by Fandom. Hopefully nothing changes and the employees at D&D Beyond continue doing their own thing. Yeah, I've also heard some bad things about Fandom and their aggressive marketing and intrusive ads, and apparently laggy and unresponsive sites. Hopefully this merger means D&D Beyond is left to their own devices, but you never know how mergers pan out.

 

[oreofox]

Saw a thing about this over on a D&D reddit last night before bed. According to the guy that runs D&D Beyond, he says that this will allow them to speed up their development and nothing bad will happen. I honestly don't know how much of what he says can be believed and isn't just PR speak so he doesn't lose his job. Only time will tell.

 

[DEFCON 1]

I believe Twitch is owned by Amazon, so I'd be extremely surprised if Fandom bought Twitch (seeing as how Twitch is to Amazon as YouTube is to Google). But if Twitch wanted to divest themselves of Curse, then I could see Fandom picking Curse up.

 

[Dausuul]

Saw a thing about this over on a D&D reddit last night before bed. According to the guy that runs D&D Beyond, he says that this will allow them to speed up their development and nothing bad will happen. I honestly don't know how much of what he says can be believed and isn't just PR speak so he doesn't lose his job. Only time will tell.

Yeah, I don't think he's in any position to know just yet. The new boss always promises roses and rainbows. Sometimes they deliver what they promised. Sometimes they deliver brimstone and boils instead.

As you say, time will tell.

 

[Dausuul]

I believe Twitch is owned by Amazon, so I'd be extremely surprised if Fandom bought Twitch (seeing as how Twitch is to Amazon as YouTube is to Google). But if Twitch wanted to divest themselves of Curse, then I could see Fandom picking Curse up.

You are correct. It's Fandom buying Curse from Twitch, not buying Twitch from Amazon.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

This is a weird development. Why would twitch let Curse go at a point where they’ve never been more valuable?

I really hope this doesn’t screw up the quality of DDB.

 

[Morrus]

This is a weird development. Why would twitch let Curse go at a point where they’ve never been more valuable?

Because they make more then than by selling it when it's less valuable?

 

[Leatherhead]

Well I didn't expect this to happen, they even just ingratiated a character stat reader into the Twich UI for streaming.