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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9219697" data-attributes="member: 18">It's kind of irrelevant because WotC have zero say in whether WotC are sold.Hasbro ultimately have the say, but their major shareholders can exercise huge influence over that. Now, a few years ago, there was a shareholder faction pushing for WotC to be spun off from the rest of Hasbro, and all the shareholders (including all Hasbro execs) to be given shares in that company. This is not unheard-of. It's happened before.The reasoning that they had was that WotC was significantly more profitable even then than the rest of Hasbro, and had essentially different goals that were not aligned with Hasbro's overall brand strategy, so should be spun off for everyone's financial benefit. Honestly, every year since that's looked like a better argument than when it came up (2020?).Hasbro generally are pretty clutching and reluctant to sell IPs, but I don't think it's impossible to foresee a situation where, because it would literally make every decision-maker involved $$$, they did spin off WotC from Hasbro. I think that's a lot more likely than selling WotC to another company, or selling WotC IPs to other companies.</blockquote>