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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 9095574" data-attributes="member: 52905">[MEDIA=youtube]7eoKLWw5hbo[/MEDIA]transcript in spoilers[spoiler]exactly does that mean you thought toomany big words at me okay now because Idon't understand him I'm gonna take himas disrespect on a recent investors callHasbro CEO Chris Cox concerned many whenhe said that the future of d d was and Iquote digital Cox comments came after ananalyst asked whether the struggles ofthe d d movie at the box office was asetback for plans to double wizard ofthe coast business as previous investorcalls seem to indicate the d d was a bigpart of those plans I would say you knowthe underlying thesis of our DNDbusiness was all about digital I thinkBaldur's Gate 3 is just the first ofseveral new digital initiatives you'regoing to see from us that stand how wecan try to transform tabletoprole-playing gaming now Cox pointed tothe success of ultrascape 3 which hecalled a game of the year Contender andnoted that Hasbro will make more moneyoff of Licensing Baldur's Gate 3 thanthey have of the the last 5 to 10 yearsof film licensing combined now in thiscase Hasbro's film licensing businesshas been relatively modest as thecompany has mostly stayed in-house withproducing films based on its big toyfranchises instead of just licensingthem out to Studios like what Mattel didfor the Barbie movie now Cox also notedthat d d games allowed Hasbro to reachthe much larger role-playing game MarketI.E video game role-playing games whichhad a much larger demographic thantraditional tabletop role-playing gamesCox then went on to explain that digitalallows them to expand the reach of theDungeons and Dragons brand from Beyondtabletop gaming to a wider segment ofplayers and what digital allows us to dois kind of take that tabletoprole-playing game Tam that we have inthe world which is you know probablyabout 80 million people who participatein those hobbies and frequent that kindof Channel and take our brand like d dto 800 million people who playrole-playing games now there's twospecific things to take away from Cox'sstatement fans probably recognize hisplans to transform tabletop gaming as alikely reference to the D D digital vttwhich Wizards has been developing forover a year now that's not close tocompletion to the best of our knowledgebut it still seems to be a major factorin Wizards future plans it also seemsthat Hasbro has plans to release severalmore d d video games in the future atone point Hasbro had a full pipeline ofd d video games in the works but severalwere allegedly cut at the beginning ofthe year and it seemed like those planshad kind of petered out now given thatthere was some discrepancy on how manyof those games were actually canceled uhhidden path entertainment for instancesaid that their DND game was still ondespite the fact that uh Bloombergreported that their game had beencanceled so who knows what's actuallygoing on there uh it's possible thatsome of those games are still beingactively developed uh and uh you knowthey could be as successful as WaltersGates 3 or you know probably close tobeing successful as several of them aredescribed as being AAA gamesnow more importantly it definitely seemsthat Wizards is looking to replicate thesuccess of Baldur's Gate 3 and find waysto use DND to hit up orum you know appeal to the larger videogame population and I think that isreally what D D's digital plans are keepin mind that Hasbro when Hasbro talksabout digital they don't just mean theDND digital you know the vtt thateveryone is rightfully worried aboutthey mean video games they're talkingabout video games so is the future of dd digital let us know in the commentsection don't forget to hit those likeAnd subscribe buttonsforeign[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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