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Podcast #279: Hasbro Layoffs and D&D's Future
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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 9222302" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>"Scaling back" is what got us 5e in the first place so I'm not particularly worried. The only thing I'm worried about is people proclaiming prematurely that "Dungeons & Dragons is DEAD! Wizards of the Coast FINISHED!" like what seems to be all the YouTube clickbait videos are saying. Mostly because people who don't follow TTRPG news and just play the game will likely eventually catch wind of it, decide D&D is "over", and give up on TTRPGs altogether. Or new players will assume that it's out-of-print and no longer being made so why get involved in a hobby that doesn't have a future? Made worse by, as discussed in the podcast, many people not understanding D&D is just one of many TTRPGs and isn't a generic term for all roleplaying games.</p><p></p><p>D&D is too valuable a brand for Hasbro to drop support for entirely. Worst-case scenario is being put in a "holding pattern" like in the mid-2010s of releasing just 1-2 books a year just so that there's something going on with the brand the same way Disney and WB just needs some comic book to come out from Marvel and DC so they can mine the IP for movies, video games, licensed material like t-shirts and backpacks and underoos, etc.</p><p></p><p>It's also highly unlikely they'd sell off the D&D brand because it's potentially worth a lot more money than anyone would reasonably pay for it. Large corporations tend to be much more likely to sit on a product line or brand or IP and do nothing with it just in case they decide to do something with it in the future rather than sell it off to another company who definitely will do something with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 9222302, member: 6669048"] "Scaling back" is what got us 5e in the first place so I'm not particularly worried. The only thing I'm worried about is people proclaiming prematurely that "Dungeons & Dragons is DEAD! Wizards of the Coast FINISHED!" like what seems to be all the YouTube clickbait videos are saying. Mostly because people who don't follow TTRPG news and just play the game will likely eventually catch wind of it, decide D&D is "over", and give up on TTRPGs altogether. Or new players will assume that it's out-of-print and no longer being made so why get involved in a hobby that doesn't have a future? Made worse by, as discussed in the podcast, many people not understanding D&D is just one of many TTRPGs and isn't a generic term for all roleplaying games. D&D is too valuable a brand for Hasbro to drop support for entirely. Worst-case scenario is being put in a "holding pattern" like in the mid-2010s of releasing just 1-2 books a year just so that there's something going on with the brand the same way Disney and WB just needs some comic book to come out from Marvel and DC so they can mine the IP for movies, video games, licensed material like t-shirts and backpacks and underoos, etc. It's also highly unlikely they'd sell off the D&D brand because it's potentially worth a lot more money than anyone would reasonably pay for it. Large corporations tend to be much more likely to sit on a product line or brand or IP and do nothing with it just in case they decide to do something with it in the future rather than sell it off to another company who definitely will do something with it. [/QUOTE]
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