D&D General The Epic Quest to Finally Make Money (Bloomberg article)

[Kramodlog]

An interesting Bloomberg article about Hasbro trying to make more money with D&D. Featuring comments from Lorraine Williams! She has nice words about D&D's fans.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[DarkCrisis]

I’m sure it’s a fine article if I subscribed to Bloomberg.

 

[Kramodlog]

Weird. I do not subscribe to Bloomberg. I did make an account for free articles.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Irish Examiner has [1] a substantial excerpt, with no paywall that I could see:

'Dungeons & Dragons' embarks on an epic quest to finally make money

With 'Honor Among Thieves' in cinemas now, can Hasbro overcome 50 years of D&D business disasters without enraging its fan base?

www.irishexaminer.com

I do wonder when the Lorraine Williams quote dates from.

[1] Is "have" appropriate there?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

'Dungeons & Dragons' embarks on an epic quest to finally make money

With 'Honor Among Thieves' in cinemas now, can Hasbro overcome 50 years of D&D business disasters without enraging its fan base?

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[Kramodlog]

Lorraine Williams' quotes:

Lorraine Williams, who led D&D’s original parent company, TSR, for a decade between the 1980s and ’90s, describes its players as voracious, intellectually driven readers “with unusually long attention spans”. They also tend to be instinctively hostile toward anything reeking of commercialisation.

“I say this with all due reverence and tons of respect: There’s a certain snobbishness among D&D players, because they are so bright,” she says.

 

[humble minion]

Given how consistent Williams has been on refusing to comment on anything to do with her time at TSR or do interviews for Ben Riggs etc, it's a surprise to me they got her to say anything at all. Unless this is something they pulled from a quote of hers from three decades back. (She must be getting on in years now, surely?)