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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9409497" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Again, what do you mean by "trying"? If you mean they aren't developing video games in house, under the WoTC name, but instead are working through studios... they have been doing that for years. Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance in 2021 was published by Wizards of the Coast. They created Archetype in 2020. It feels like you are looking at a McDonald's ad and sagely advising people they are going to sell chicken. Yeah, it has been done.There is no change here. WotC has been exploring the video game space for years, and TSR did it before them. Whether or not they have an in-house studio called Wizards of the Coast, or they own a studio that works directly under them in their portfolio... feels rather immaterial.Right, but this is like saying that ViacomCBS and AT&T don't make movies, because they only own Paramount and Warner Bros. If you own the company that makes the thing, there is little practical difference in whether or not you are making the thing. Especially since you seem to fear some sort of future plan involving them being in an industry that they are part of.Then what are you talking about? The game can be digitized, with a more limited scope. Exactly what you said they are trying to achieve. "for designing the game in a manner that it was easily transitioned to a(n interactive) digital environment (which is necessarily more limited in what it can do than what can be done in tabletop play)" That happened decades ago. The only thing not digitized is the humans at the table. Which even if Wizards and Hasbro sold everything they owned and threw it all into the development of Artificial Intelligence.... they wouldn't be able to take that last step. So if you aren't concerned about WoTC making video games.... what are you concerned about?They publish video games, I don't know what else you need to do to be considered a video game company than making and selling video games. Yes, they own the studio that does that, but that is a legal distinction, not a distinction of action. It is an argument much like saying that Shuntaro Furukawa doesn't make video games, because he is the PResident of Nintendo not a Senior Developer. You are technically correct, but if you are worried about what he would do if he was making Video Games... ship kind of sailed, since being the President likely would give him the chance to do whatever it is you fear.</blockquote>

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