Game development is horribly expensive. And movies.
Easy to spend other people's money.
WotC pinyin up the money pre 2004 probably would not have mattered.
Blizzard had a decade of positive hype leading into WoW. Warcraft 3 was a hit.
WotC has never had that. TSR didnt have it either...
Well he can do his own thing.
When youre the largest rpg ever the risk of alienating your existing customers is very high. Compatibility above all is always going to limit creativity.
Gets back to the point. Anyone capable will do their own thing. Theres not much D&D offered that you can't do yourself.
Warcraft blew up but it was after a decade of Warcraft 1-3. WotC couldn't do Warcraft 1-3 themselves. Well TSR as well.
Anyone smart enough with the vision for something...
Even WoW was kind of an exception though. Its not like you can snap your fingers and crank out a WoW type game.
Because its a licensed product the peopke capable of producing a big hit will develop their own IP vs someone else's.
People here seriously overestimate D&Ds appeal to the...
One of the better chicken burgers I've had lately.
Beer, burger, fries $13.50 usd approx.
Basically a chicken and bacon burger. Chickens some sort of buttermilk costing i think.
Burger night. Beers not free its essentially -$2.
Nerds still do that here.
Personally I would use a spear instead and wear brigandine armor if you wanted to LARP.
Its about a 4 or 5 hour drive from my place.
Fairly pointless unless youre a hard core nerd. There's nicer spots that are closer. I would go to Peel Forest instead or head...
I don't see the lack of a D&D warcraft as mismanagement. WotC isn't a software developer.
Warctadt dude its own thing and theres not much to be gained by paying WotC money to do an MMO
D&D is awful blah blah blah. Theres better games blah blah blah. You should play this instead blah blah blah.
WHY WON'T ANYONE PAY ATTENTION TO MY FANTSY VAMPIRE GAME!!!!!!