WotC Hasbro selling D&D IP?

[MockingBird]

He only spoke with top D&D people like once, and it was more focused on the upcoming VTT right? If that's the case I definitely wouldn't count that as an insider.

 

[Morrus]

While he does say that his idea is speculation, he regularly sprinkles his commentary with phrases like "I know this business," "I've been working in this industry for decades," "I have met with the top people of D&D," etc. So he definitely promotes himself as an "industry insider" - not specifically about a potential Larian deal - but an "industry insider" nonetheless.

I mean, even I meet those qualifications!

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

I've told the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. I'll let you tell it to the Marines.

 

[Abstruse]

I poked around a bit on this one and - get ready for a shock - it's complete owlbear dung. Tencent is trying to secure a license to make D&D video games. They're not trying to buy the D&D brand or IP.

 

[Retreater]

Glicker has released a video.

 

[Oofta]

Unsourced, uncredited article put out by Chinese media aggregator, repeating speculation from click baiter. I'm taking this one with all the grains of salt.

My "grain" of salt with cows for scale.

 

[Retreater]

I mean, even I meet those qualifications!

Have you been interviewed lately?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

My opinion is a licence agreement would be more logic and closer to reality.

What could happen? Tencent gets the D&D licence, and they create from zero a new wuxia IP for Chinese market (mainly). Each one of the sides could use the IP by the other as an "icebreaker" to introduce in the other makert of the other side. Like WotC could avoid the possible troubles about arbitrary Chinese censorship.

 

[jgsugden]

Except that, as far as we are aware, the RPG IP is one of the few things in their portfolio that seems to be making money. It is unclear why they'd shelve or sell what is now one of their more successful product lines. While admittedly it has a long lead time, I would expect an attempt to repeat BG3 success over shelving the property...

You're looking at the present. I'm looking at the future. Yes, they'd try to capitalize in the short term on the popularity of BG3 and the RG world overall. Pump it, even. Put it out there in more and more distantly related products. Lunchboxes. Then makeup. Then car scents. You push the IP until it is everywhere and everyone has their fill - and sales start to decline. Then the dump begins.

They focus their money on the next hot IP and let people forget about the overexposed, tiresomely invasive D&D line. The game continues - but with a much lower budget. Quality of products diminishes as they try to spend s little as possible while getting people to still continue buying as sales trail off. FOMO keeps people spending for a bit, even if the quality sucks. Then the IP essentially slumbers long enough that they can do a nostalgia push and do another generation. That is how it plays out in IPs that die off and come back over time - GI Joe, Transformers, My Little Pony, etc.

 

[Umbran]

You're looking at the present. I'm looking at the future.

Hi, Nostradamus! You are speculating about an unspecified future. That's easy, because if you don't put a date to it, you can always say that it is still in the future. It becomes non-falsifiable, and thus not terribly interesting, I'm afraid.

The OP is talking about rumors of currently impending events, in the near term, not unspecified years from now.