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While I'm sure WotC wants to be the Steam of the RPG Valve has put out some bangers in the past few years. Half Life Alyx was a masterpiece of a game and one of the best games Ive played in the past decade. I'm not a fan of Mobas but Deadlock seems to be pretty well received. We also know they...

Another unforced error from WotC. They never should have forced players to upgrade to the new rules/system, especially since I imagine many DMs and players wouldn't want to upgrade in the middle of an existing campaign. I would have done it as a toggle between the old and new content to give...

Many companies, especially publicly traded ones, may eventually decide the opportunity costs of working on something new or putting additional resources on something that’s more profitable is a better way to use those resources than using those resources on something that’s not very profitable...

I'm not saying the books aren't profitable. They're just no where nearly as profitable as a digital sale. CDN costs are a tiny fraction of the costs required to print, store and ship a physical book, especially since it's only text and compressed images. Physical products also have the risk of...

DND Beyond has way, way higher margins than physical books. WotC would love it if everyone would stop buying physical books (plus they can basically become like Steam by selling more and more 3rd party content). I imagine DND will slowly continue to transition more towards digital only. They'll...

There hasn't been a digital component that WotC clearly are spending major money on like the VTT. The 3D VTT has likely been in development for years with a bunch of highly paid programmers and graphics artists and will need continued development when new books and modules release. WotC are...

Paramount is planning on cutting $500 million in costs after Shari Redstone shut down the Skydance acquisition: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-town-hall-cost-cuts-1235931990/ Given how the DND movie performed at the box office I would be shocked if they move...

The same thing with Chris Pine's salary happened with Star Trek 4, he was unwilling to lower what he had initially agreed to and it's probably one of the reasons that Star Trek 4 never got made...

Of course one way they could slash the budget would be to pay Chris Pine less since I imagine he has the highest salary of any of the main characters that would be returning for a sequel…

Oh yeah very much so. It's a few years old but I recently read this book on how the Hollywood business model was changing and it was very interesting: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073XBSMVY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_351_o07?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Yeah that’s true. I haven’t seen the new Mad Max but based on Fury Road I’m guessing there’s a major difference in scope for the action/SFX scenes compared to Minus One. Fury Road had a ton of action scenes which cost a lot of money especially since some of it was done practically while Minus...

Costs and wages are much lower in Japan than many other countries and it seems like they’re starting to have an issue with low wages like many other countries https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/20-000-annual-pay-Japan-s-weak-yen-drives-away-Asian-talent

Yes that does show them losing $286 million on streaming in the first 3 months of 2024 vs $511 million in the first 3 months of 2023 which is what I said where they’re still losing money but less of it. Without a breakdown of expenses we don’t know if Paramount Plus or Pluto is losing more...

Paramount still loses hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter on streaming. They have been losing less lately but that's likely a combination of canceling a bunch of stuff and their ad revenue from FAST channels...

Yeah their release window certainly did them no favors though last year we saw tons of movies that I'm sure studios felt like were safe bets do poorly or bomb. There were a few exceptions (Barbie, Oppenheimer, Mario, Guardians 3, etc) but so many big budget films did poorly. I do think in...

Yeah it's going to be interesting to see what happens with the movie industry. The industry was built on multiple sources of income for a movie for such a long time (Box office first run, Home media/VOD, premium cable channel, basic cable channels, streaming). Right now the only thing that...

As per Deadline the 8 episode TV series that Paramount Plus had given a direct to series order to about a year and a half years ago from Rawson Marshall Thurber will no longer be moving forward at Paramount Plus: Hasbro will attempt to shop it around but there's no guarantee that anyone will...

I have to agree that Wotc isn't in a very good spot right now and they'll probably see more layoffs this year. I do think if the 3D VTT or the big budget sci-fi videogame they're working on does do well they're going to be in even bigger trouble.

Steven has no idea if this is true or if someone in China is reporting based on his video which is unsurprising. Probably the most interesting thing he mentioned is he has an exclusive later today about a new OGL,I wonder if it's a new version from Wizards or some new license from another company.

They have a source listed in the article but it’s a Chinese site and I doubt anyone here has any idea how credible that site is. Is it possible that some Chinese news site watched Steven Glicker's Youtube video that has 31k views and either misunderstood it or just decided to lie and write an...