WotC D&D Hiring New Game Designer Months After Firing Many

The job pays from $86-145k and is for an experienced game designer—presumably much like one of those they let go a few months ago!

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Notably, one of those let go in December in Hasbro’s company-wide cost-cutting cull of over 1,000 jobs was D&D designer Dan Dillon. Dillon posted on Twitter—“Well. There it is. D&D is hiring a game designer, 8 months later. Was it worth it, you soulless f*****g cowards? Did you save enough money?”

 

[LordEntrails]

LOL. Pretty much every company maximizes profit. They'd be stupid not to. People can love what they do and attempt to make the best product they can while still maximizing profit, it's not an inherently bad thing.

Generally I agree with your views on companies and there responsibilities. But there is actually a pretty significant movement called Conscious Capitalism that disagrees with your premise about maximizing profit. There is another way, with pros and cons of it's own.
I don't expect companies not to maximize their profits, or think they should act otherwise, but their are companies that are choosing a different approach, and are successful doing so.

 

[KYRON45]

‘corp gonna corp’ is something I consider a defense, it’s not that far from saying ‘they are absolutely justified in this, what else would anyone do’, and I frequently see variations of that in their defense too


sure, and we have people defending any action WotC takes, downplaying it and saying that as a publicly traded company they basically have no other choice is a defense too

If you defend their attempt to revoke the OGL, the Pinkertons and the WotC firings, I am not sure what it takes for you to not side with WotC on something. Apparently they at a minimum haven’t done anything yet that would cause you to.
I landed on different sides for some of these, but if the OGL does not get you on the anti-WotC side I am genuinely not sure what would, short of Cocks becoming a Bond villain with Hasbro as his Evil Corp


eh, there certainly is pushback too (and imo it can be justified), but that doesn’t mean that no one is defending WotC

I’ve never cared less about anything than the OGL. I’m a fan of D&D and could care less about who owns the brand. They made a business decision that never came to pass. They corrected this action based on fan response. It’s my understanding that this is the behavior we want from corporations.

Here we are what seems like 100 years later and people are still crying about a decision that died on the vine.

I’d love to see the numbers of the people who hate Wotc with every fiber of their being; yet still end up buying their stuff even ifs just to complain about it.

 

[Hussar]

Until they learned.

We spent 5000 years of civilization without this kind of BS.

Granted, we spent 5000 years with slavery, torture and zero worker rights. But, sure, things are just so much worse now.

Let's go back to the days when an overseer beats a worker to death, and... nothing happens.

 

[Hussar]

Yeah, it was the lack of layoffs that caused crime and kept sanitation systems from being developed.

And it's the giant corporations that are making sure everyone have plenty of water and food regardless of class or location.

Got me there.

Umm... it kinda is?

In Canada, for example, some of the absolute largest companies are ones that own farms and produce food at a rate that would have been absolutely unheard of 100 years ago. Your electricity is provided by massive companies for a rate that is affordable by nearly everyone in your country. Water utilities are bit of a mixed bag, but, again, by and large, the preponderance of people in the world do have access to clean drinking water provided by massive companies.

I mean, in comparison to the disparity of life pre-1900, where you had widespread starvation and virtually zero access to clean drinking water, I'd say that the large corporations have done pretty well. I went to Costco, in Japan, yesterday, and bought more food than a Japanese family in the 1800's would have seen in a year for a very small fraction of my monthly budget and I'm not exactly rolling in cash here. I turn on the tap and there's clean drinking water that is actually cleaner than most bottled waters - Kitakyushu has fantastic water.

All provided by massive corporations.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Umm... it kinda is?

In Canada, for example, some of the absolute largest companies are ones that own farms and produce food at a rate that would have been absolutely unheard of 100 years ago. Your electricity is provided by massive companies for a rate that is affordable by nearly everyone in your country. Water utilities are bit of a mixed bag, but, again, by and large, the preponderance of people in the world do have access to clean drinking water provided by massive companies.

I mean, in comparison to the disparity of life pre-1900, where you had widespread starvation and virtually zero access to clean drinking water, I'd say that the large corporations have done pretty well. I went to Costco, in Japan, yesterday, and bought more food than a Japanese family in the 1800's would have seen in a year for a very small fraction of my monthly budget and I'm not exactly rolling in cash here. I turn on the tap and there's clean drinking water that is actually cleaner than most bottled waters - Kitakyushu has fantastic water.

All provided by massive corporations.

 

[mamba]

I feel like I’ve slipped into an alternative dimension here.

How is WotC hiring a new designer a bad thing thing?

I guess you have, show me a post where this is the bad thing rather than the firing 9 months or so ago…

 

[mamba]

What on earth is the investor class? 62% of Americans own stock.

maybe it is the 1% that own 50% of stocks, it certainly is not the bottom 50% that own 1% of stocks…

 

[mamba]

All companies that want to stay in business want to maximize profit and as long as they aren't engaging in anti-competitive areas or deceptive approaches I accept it.

I can think of a few more criteria, anti-consumer, unethical, exploitative, heck even illegal is not on your list…

 

[TiQuinn]

I’d love to see the numbers of the people who hate Wotc with every fiber of their being; yet still end up buying their stuff even ifs just to complain about it.

Doesn’t that just make them even more entitled to be critical? As consumers of their products?

 

[KYRON45]

Doesn’t that just make them even more entitled to be critical? As consumers of their products?

Once you buy the book you’ve supported the evil empire you claim to despise. At this point aren’t you part of the problem?

No one is saying you can’t hate what you want to hate. What we’re tired of is that every single thread almost immediately turns into “what I hate about Wotc and why.”

By all means; be angry…it’s your internet given right to hate all of the things….but does every thread need to become a festering sore of malice and negativity?