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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9255112" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>That's very clear that they're not selling the IP/D&D as a whole, though it doesn't seem to rule out selling the videogame rights, something Hasbro have done before. Of course, it kind of backfired horribly and they ended up having to go to court to get them back, but Hasbro absolutely do not learn from mistakes. Rather they just try and do the same thing again and hope it'll work better this time, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised if Tencent managed to get some kind of exclusive timed licence for D&D videogames - discussion of that may even be the source of the rumour. Unless Hasbro have gone completely insane they'll presumably limit it to 5 years or something though.</p><p></p><p>Personally I'm always rather concerned when I hear Tencent are involved. I wasn't aware they owned 30% of Larian, but it fits their pattern. They have significant stakes in an awful lot of pretty good videogame developers and publishers, especially ones that succeeded as essentially indies. So far they don't seem to have been using their powers for evil in the West outside of mobile games (they did apparently make SuperCell's games much worse after taking over), all the Western AAA companies they have large or majority holdings of have been allowed to continue pretty much unchanged. But changes in leadership thinking at Tencent could cause that to change very rapidly. WotC saying how keen they are to work with Tencent is at once understandable (particularly via their access to the massive Chinese games market) and rather worrying - it'd certainly be preferable if WotC were keen to work with the various good studios Tencent owns but currently lets act independently, rather than the company itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9255112, member: 18"] That's very clear that they're not selling the IP/D&D as a whole, though it doesn't seem to rule out selling the videogame rights, something Hasbro have done before. Of course, it kind of backfired horribly and they ended up having to go to court to get them back, but Hasbro absolutely do not learn from mistakes. Rather they just try and do the same thing again and hope it'll work better this time, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised if Tencent managed to get some kind of exclusive timed licence for D&D videogames - discussion of that may even be the source of the rumour. Unless Hasbro have gone completely insane they'll presumably limit it to 5 years or something though. Personally I'm always rather concerned when I hear Tencent are involved. I wasn't aware they owned 30% of Larian, but it fits their pattern. They have significant stakes in an awful lot of pretty good videogame developers and publishers, especially ones that succeeded as essentially indies. So far they don't seem to have been using their powers for evil in the West outside of mobile games (they did apparently make SuperCell's games much worse after taking over), all the Western AAA companies they have large or majority holdings of have been allowed to continue pretty much unchanged. But changes in leadership thinking at Tencent could cause that to change very rapidly. WotC saying how keen they are to work with Tencent is at once understandable (particularly via their access to the massive Chinese games market) and rather worrying - it'd certainly be preferable if WotC were keen to work with the various good studios Tencent owns but currently lets act independently, rather than the company itself. [/QUOTE]
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