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Who should own Wizards of the Coast if/when it is sold?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8141680" data-attributes="member: 6777737"><p>I think it would be more likely for Hasbro to reorganize and separate into multiple companies to attract different types of investors rather than be sold, similar to what Dow-Dupont did. However, I'm not sure how much granularity investors even want on toys, games, and hobbies. Board games and TTRPGs are certainly more popular than they've ever been, but I question whether or not Hasbro can capitalize on that given their organizational structure.</p><p></p><p>If WotC were ever sold, I would imagine there would be very good chance that an investment company would buy them, which would be absolutely disastrous for the long term prospects of D&D and Magic. Magic already has major problems due to a quantity of "premium" content that would make Topps from the 80s and Image from the 90s blush. About the only benefit that I could see would be the likely revocation of Magic's reserve list, which continues to hamstring it by preventing the reprinting of it's own most iconic cards. Otherwise I'd expect the products to be slowly sucked dry of all value over the following 6-8 years just like virtually every retailer that's "gone bankrupt" and closed in the past 15 years.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise it depends entirely on what the new leadership sees as the goal for the product line. Almost certainly a new edition, though.</p><p></p><p>As far as who <em>should</em> own it? Whoever has the money to afford it. I don't understand why my opinion on that would remotely matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 8141680, member: 6777737"] I think it would be more likely for Hasbro to reorganize and separate into multiple companies to attract different types of investors rather than be sold, similar to what Dow-Dupont did. However, I'm not sure how much granularity investors even want on toys, games, and hobbies. Board games and TTRPGs are certainly more popular than they've ever been, but I question whether or not Hasbro can capitalize on that given their organizational structure. If WotC were ever sold, I would imagine there would be very good chance that an investment company would buy them, which would be absolutely disastrous for the long term prospects of D&D and Magic. Magic already has major problems due to a quantity of "premium" content that would make Topps from the 80s and Image from the 90s blush. About the only benefit that I could see would be the likely revocation of Magic's reserve list, which continues to hamstring it by preventing the reprinting of it's own most iconic cards. Otherwise I'd expect the products to be slowly sucked dry of all value over the following 6-8 years just like virtually every retailer that's "gone bankrupt" and closed in the past 15 years. Otherwise it depends entirely on what the new leadership sees as the goal for the product line. Almost certainly a new edition, though. As far as who [I]should[/I] own it? Whoever has the money to afford it. I don't understand why my opinion on that would remotely matter. [/QUOTE]
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