WotC Hasbro Earnings Call: WotC/BG3 carrying Hasbro

[bedir than]

D&D up by 18% btw

Per the slides, D&D The Brand was up over 100% (slide 11). Yes, some of that is Baldur's Gate, but licensing for Digital Games was only up 23% and WotC tabletop including MtG was up 14%

https://investor.hasbro.com/static-files/a2a2197c-0a07-49c8-8506-34ccf3bee347

 

[Scribe]

The other thread noted in a tweet that BG3 + Monopoly Go accounted for a 99% jump in something.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/outside-of-wizards-hasbro-is-such-a-mess-q3-wotc-info.700658/

 

[Parmandur]

Per the slides, D&D The Brand was up over 100% (slide 11). Yes, some of that is Baldur's Gate, but licensing for Digital Games was only up 23% and WotC tabletop including MtG was up 14%

https://investor.hasbro.com/static-files/a2a2197c-0a07-49c8-8506-34ccf3bee347

Looks like the RPGbis doing fine.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Looks like the RPGbis doing fine.

For now

 

[MuhVerisimilitude]

While this is slightly off topic and i'll remove this if I break any rules: What issue are people having with the recent MtG releases? I haven't followed magic since like 2010 or smth.

 

[Maxperson]

While this is slightly off topic and i'll remove this if I break any rules: What issue are people having with the recent MtG releases? I haven't followed magic since like 2010 or smth.

My major issue is the sheer speed at which new sets come out. I don't play that often, and when I do it's sealed or draft, so I get to see very few cards. If I come back a month or two later it's a completely new set. There's a new set every 3 months with supplemental sets in-between.

 

[Hussar]

My major issue is the sheer speed at which new sets come out. I don't play that often, and when I do it's sealed or draft, so I get to see very few cards. If I come back a month or two later it's a completely new set. There's a new set every 3 months with supplemental sets in-between.

So you’re saying faster releases turn you off?

Heh.

 

[Maxperson]

So you’re saying faster releases turn you off?

Heh.

I'm saying too fast(like 3e rates) is too much. There's still that middle ground.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm saying too fast(like 3e rates) is too much. There's still that middle ground.

TBF, Magic card sets and D&D books are also different animals entirely. It doesn't seem Magic is getting room to breathe to have a decent metagamd build up.

 

[Scribe]

So you’re saying faster releases turn you off?

Heh.

When those releases drive the value of collections into the ground with reprints and broken cards the developers know better than to print?

Ya.