LuisCarlos17f
Legend
My opinion is today the main strategy is multimedia franchises, this means making money with different products: games, toys, novels, comics, TV shows, shirts and the rest of merchandising.
Today D&D is becoming one of the main Hasbro's franchises, with M:tG next to Transformers, Power Rangers, G.I.Joe and Litle Pony.
WotC wants the digital market, and not only videogames. I wonder about the potential of (free) webcomics.
Too soon for the 6th Edition but we could bet WotC wants to create a d20 Modern to publish TTRPGs based in famous franchises, not only Star Wars d20, but also the famous superheroes franchises (Marvel and DC). This is a serious challenge for game designers, to find a system easy to be understood by the new players, right power balance, and retrocompatible with 5th Ed. Why do you think Hasbro parternerd with Renegade Game Studios?
WotC would like to use d20 Future (Star Frontiers+Star*Drive) but not yet because Disney doesn't want a new rival for Star Wars.
* 2021 will be a year with radical changes in the complete entertaiment industry, and indirectly this will affect IPs by the biggest companies. Let's say now we can't guess the future acquisitions and mergers within media companies. Maybe this can be a horrible year for AT&T(Warner/DC) and Disney, so bad they had to agreee some merger with other. Anti-monopoly could allow it if both aren't big fishes after the post-epidemic economic fall.
Today D&D is becoming one of the main Hasbro's franchises, with M:tG next to Transformers, Power Rangers, G.I.Joe and Litle Pony.
WotC wants the digital market, and not only videogames. I wonder about the potential of (free) webcomics.
Too soon for the 6th Edition but we could bet WotC wants to create a d20 Modern to publish TTRPGs based in famous franchises, not only Star Wars d20, but also the famous superheroes franchises (Marvel and DC). This is a serious challenge for game designers, to find a system easy to be understood by the new players, right power balance, and retrocompatible with 5th Ed. Why do you think Hasbro parternerd with Renegade Game Studios?
WotC would like to use d20 Future (Star Frontiers+Star*Drive) but not yet because Disney doesn't want a new rival for Star Wars.
* 2021 will be a year with radical changes in the complete entertaiment industry, and indirectly this will affect IPs by the biggest companies. Let's say now we can't guess the future acquisitions and mergers within media companies. Maybe this can be a horrible year for AT&T(Warner/DC) and Disney, so bad they had to agreee some merger with other. Anti-monopoly could allow it if both aren't big fishes after the post-epidemic economic fall.