WotC Roll For Combat: Hasbro Downgraded. Toys Rotting on the Shelves

[Oofta]

Not a bad deal given someone else did most of the work.

True enough. People have been working on FR lore for decades now, a lot of thought and effort has been put into it.

 

[Parmandur]

Have they ever mentioned a hard number?

Companies love throwing around acco7nt ans subscriber numbers.

BUT most accounts are inactive/free and paid subscriptions are a very small %.

Losing 50k whales hurts. 50k active accounts hurts less.

The only hard number we have seen ia for free accounts, 13 million and growing.

The report in question Suggests that the OGL crisis got 50,000 out of about 500,000 paying subscribers to drop their account in protest. Which explains why they folded and reversed course so rapidly.

 

[Parmandur]

What direct contribution to the bottom line has BG3 made in 2023? Larian will have bought the license to use D&D material a few years ago: they would not have spent years in dev otherwise. Do you mean that they included some sort of a royalty deal on top of that? That would be weird.

No, it's quite standard. And reportedly, they made a lot off of those royalties in 2023.

 

[Parmandur]

Not a bad deal given someone else did most of the work.

Yes, but not a bad deal for Larian either as their work got way more attention (and hence money) than if it were Divinity 3.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

The lower the stock, the easier it is for Enworld to form an activist investor group, buy enough stock to have influence over company affairs; and then force WOTC to make D&D the way we want to be!

And what way would that be?
Given the level of disagreements here on some very basic paradigms.

 

[Zardnaar]

The only hard number we have seen ia for free accounts, 13 million and growing.

The report in question Suggests that the OGL crisis got 50,000 out of about 500,000 paying subscribers to drop their account in protest. Which explains why they folded and reversed course so rapidly.

I had seen 13 million number but 50/500k is new for me. Cheers.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm always a little nervous when I use the "laugh" emoji. I always worry that it will be taken as laughing AT the post and not WITH it (which is always what I mean).

So, I also choose to "do unto others" and assume that someone who laughs at any of my posts found something amusing there, but are not laughing AT me. It's just healthy!

 

[dave2008]

Not a bad deal given someone else did most of the work.

But not enough to "...save their skin."

 

[MockingBird]

Hasbro should do a collaboration with Stanley tumblers. Kids didn't want toys this past Christmas, they wanted....cups?

 

[Oofta]

Hasbro should do a collaboration with Stanley tumblers. Kids didn't want toys this past Christmas, they wanted....cups?

Well, I may or may not have ordered Owlbear Coffee for our Christmas white elephant since several of them play a monthly game with us. So yeah, stupid branding got my money (although it was an impulse buy because of a coupon).