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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9295837" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Swen seems more Tom Bombadil than Treebeard to me but that's amazing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yup - he both very directly and clearly said that, and more recently has talked about how people get fired because of corporate greed and short-sightedness, so he's essentially talked about it twice, which means it's a major deal for him.</p><p></p><p>Combine that with WotC being extremely evasive when being asked if Larian is working on another D&D game (where it would be hugely positive news for WotC if they were, to the point of likely boosting Hasbro share prices a bit), basically giving the old "Larian are great, we'd love to work with them more!", and I think it's likely this is Yet Another (TM) relationship with a digital partner that WotC has managed to destroy - the previous biggest ones being BioWare and Obsidian. BioWare created the Dragon Age IP in significant part explicitly because WotC were such pains in the ass, and Obsidian likewise stopped doing D&D IP games in part for similar reasons (the other part is that WotC want a % cut and also ultimately own the IP, so can pull it, and also get all the money from merch/licencing, where if you own your own IP, that's not the case).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9295837, member: 18"] Swen seems more Tom Bombadil than Treebeard to me but that's amazing. Yup - he both very directly and clearly said that, and more recently has talked about how people get fired because of corporate greed and short-sightedness, so he's essentially talked about it twice, which means it's a major deal for him. Combine that with WotC being extremely evasive when being asked if Larian is working on another D&D game (where it would be hugely positive news for WotC if they were, to the point of likely boosting Hasbro share prices a bit), basically giving the old "Larian are great, we'd love to work with them more!", and I think it's likely this is Yet Another (TM) relationship with a digital partner that WotC has managed to destroy - the previous biggest ones being BioWare and Obsidian. BioWare created the Dragon Age IP in significant part explicitly because WotC were such pains in the ass, and Obsidian likewise stopped doing D&D IP games in part for similar reasons (the other part is that WotC want a % cut and also ultimately own the IP, so can pull it, and also get all the money from merch/licencing, where if you own your own IP, that's not the case). [/QUOTE]
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