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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9298115" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, Swen is obviously being diplomatic, and I suspect it's one of things, where, on one level, it's true, and on another, it's obviously bollocks.Specifically Swen criticised WotC/Hasbro for firing a bunch of people, criticised that general behaviour and approach to game/product development, and then, just a few days after WotC had given an interview saying they were "happy for Larian to take their time" - i.e. indicating that WotC thought Larian were working on something for them (because they were), Swen said they'd shut down work on a DLC, and weren't working a BG4, and has appeared to rule out future collaboration (in more vague terms).So when he says this:[ATTACH=full]353583[/ATTACH]#I think here we can see two things:1) Swen is damning them with faint praise - "done their best" isn't saying a lot (in fact it's something you say when someone is a screw-up!) and "been a great licensor" basically means they didn't cause problems for Larian. I mean, both are nice, but neither is exactly a moving tribute to how cool they were to work with or anything.2) Swen seems to be saying WotC very intentionally, when he knows Hasbro are the main people who he criticised. That's all Hasbro decision-making.Note for example Josh Sawyer's tweet:[ATTACH=full]353586[/ATTACH]Specifies HASBRO - and I think Swen is more politely doing the same thing by specifying WotC as being decent to work with, but not mentioning Hasbro who are behind all the stuff he complained about, and who ultimately they'd be making money for.</blockquote>

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