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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 9223350" data-attributes="member: 25619">The Green Bay Packers are owned by their fans.&nbsp; They sold shares to only Wisconsin residents, so the team is community and fan owned. My wife is from Wisconsin and proudly has 2 shares.The relevance - to me, at least - is that the core problem with D&amp;D is its corporate owners damage the game.&nbsp; Lorraine Williams bankrupted TSR in 1997 and D&amp;D stopped printing for months.&nbsp; Read Ben Riggs book if you don’t already know the story.Hasbro is on the same path. Despite D&amp;D’s astounding success, and the movie, and Game of the Year for BG3, Hasbro is endangering the game by betting all of its money on in-house video games - which they demonstrably don’t know how to do - and laying off the core talent that brought them success. And the OGL debacle. They are pursuing short term profits instead of long term viability with MtG, from what I hear.The only way to stop the destruction of new editions is to have the decision on “should we sell all the books over again to the same players” made by people with the game’s long term interests in mind, not MBA’s looking to maximize revenue in the next FY.Another sports analogy - watch the TV series “Welcome to Wrexham“, about what happens when two people who actually care buy this minor league British soccer (football) team and invest in it, rather than asset stripping it like previous owners.I hope the gamers at WotC shipped 2024 before the MBA’s got ahold of it, so it’s a refresh rather than a&nbsp; “everything is different now, you need to buy new books” MBA driven edition.&nbsp; I suspect the MBA’s hate books and want online subscription only.&nbsp; We’ll see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 9223350, member: 25619"] The Green Bay Packers are owned by their fans. They sold shares to only Wisconsin residents, so the team is community and fan owned. My wife is from Wisconsin and proudly has 2 shares. The relevance - to me, at least - is that the core problem with D&D is its corporate owners damage the game. Lorraine Williams bankrupted TSR in 1997 and D&D stopped printing for months. Read Ben Riggs book if you don’t already know the story. Hasbro is on the same path. Despite D&D’s astounding success, and the movie, and Game of the Year for BG3, Hasbro is endangering the game by betting all of its money on in-house video games - which they demonstrably don’t know how to do - and laying off the core talent that brought them success. And the OGL debacle. They are pursuing short term profits instead of long term viability with MtG, from what I hear. The only way to stop the destruction of new editions is to have the decision on “should we sell all the books over again to the same players” made by people with the game’s long term interests in mind, not MBA’s looking to maximize revenue in the next FY. Another sports analogy - watch the TV series “Welcome to Wrexham“, about what happens when two people who actually care buy this minor league British soccer (football) team and invest in it, rather than asset stripping it like previous owners. I hope the gamers at WotC shipped 2024 before the MBA’s got ahold of it, so it’s a refresh rather than a “everything is different now, you need to buy new books” MBA driven edition. I suspect the MBA’s hate books and want online subscription only. We’ll see. [/QUOTE]

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