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lol, so they heard of the game yesterday and it costs $100 to buy a pre-release. At that price point I assume I get a printed book eventually, no idea if I get a PDF now, the site has basically zero information so you would need to buy it ‘blind’. So best case they would have downloaded a copy...

let’s see what they manage to produce with that investment or whether they just set a big pile of money on fire. Spending a lot of money is the easy part…

it took the attempt leaking and the backlash of the community for them to do that. They did not do that out of the goodness of their hearts once the other parties to the contract said ‘not interested’… They do not get credit for not following through with it. They get a little credit for going...

ah, so when the title says ‘best’, it means ‘strongest’, the latter might be true

it's hard to see whether they are in growth mode when Hasbro never really properly breaks out the numbers. Supposedly they were growing at around 10% last quarter

define viable, D&D on its own is still bigger than any other TTRPG company. I can see them being a bit more careful with their investments (Sigil), but at a profit of around 70M a year, they are easily viable right now, no idea about cash flow around 4e

no idea, but I would not use conventions as the only measure anyway, number of kickstarters, money raised by them and some other stuff all would need to go into it. Which brings us back to us having a hard time determining this based on data

I agree with that, but at least we can see the convention numbers go up or down, the DDB registered users only have one direction

Do we know those numbers? 13 million registered users is not that, and will only ever grow, even if fewer people actually were to use DDB

I'll add this to the list https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/northlands-norse-adventures-for-dandd-2024-and-tov

why would the speed of shipping have anything to do with having to pay tariffs?

even if they did sell off WotC, that is still a multi-billion deal, even just D&D probably would not be sold for less than $2B

that was implied (and in some other post explicitly mentioned). If you cannot afford to buy D&D then you cannot run it as a private investor. Are there other people that I might prefer working on D&D over the ones that do, probably, but let’s not kid ourselves, this is mainly because I think I...

so far it seems to be working out for them, if it no longer does they can always change direction Ultimately the customer has to decide what they want, and if they keep buying every new set then they are the ones giving WotC the incentive to create ever more decks in ever shorter periods of...

depends on how you define better I guess. I assume Peterson is more thoroughly researched, but to me it was a drier read, esp. Playing at the World, Game Wizards was better in that regard. Applecline has shorter overviews over a whole host of companies, so is necessarily not as in depth as the...

he focuses on the years that Peterson does not cover, and Applecline does not really go into business details

no, for one there is no payment to WotC for the right to use something and for another you can use it to create anything, even a competing TTRPG, rather than something in the D&D universe

but you should be able to have a reason for your concerns, so far I see nothing that explains why a private investor would be any better for D&D

they do not vote on business decisions, at all. They vote once a year whether they trust the leadership of the company, but that is it

no, so give me a name of someone who 1) can afford to buy WotC (let’s just assume it is for sale, price is at least $15B) and 2) you would trust