Who are answerable to the shareholders ultimately. I disagree with what you’re writing here. Shareholders’ bottom line ultimately decides policy, giving direction to those who shape strategy. Hasbro has a market cap of some 14billion, and as of me writing this comment has seen a jump of +6.42...
I mean, the idea that shareholders aren’t calling the shots for WoTC now is a bit misguided. D&D and Mtg are completely corporate now. That’s pretty undeniable.
Lol, fair question! But to answer it seriously, I could see a company like Amazon moving into this space, both to tie up the rights to IPs for Prime shows, video game licenses, twitch stuff, etc etc etc. It isn’t as far fetched as people might think it is.
It is worth quoting two more sections:
“Alta Fox estimates in the letter that if the division was separated, it could be worth roughly as much as Hasbro, or $13 billion or more.”
That’s a lot of freaking money.
“The activist takes issue with Hasbro’s capital allocation, including its...
This article was posted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today. Below is a snippet. Could be a v. v. big deal. The implications of this is that if WoTC is spun off another company could buy it. And the only ones really with that kind of market cap are your really big ones. Worth...
Just a friendly reminder: billion dollar companies are not your friends, do not care about you, and will exploit you for profit at any opportunity that arises.
The attempt to “humanize” Orcs and Drow is just a type of imperialism that refuses to accept difference in a froth of revolutionary universalism. Embrace difference, think different. Let Orcs be Orcs. Let Drow be Drow.
edit I can’t keep a straight face, this is patently ridiculous.
Please stop bringing morality into my mass murder simulator, where everyone is ultimately summed up by a number which represents what it takes to kill them.