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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7906572" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Because you want to generate new IP rather than just recycling the same IP over and over again? I mean, I hope that's what they're doing because I'd really like to see more "new" ideas getting produced instead of just looking back to properties from the last 50 years and trying to figure out how to "make them fresh" or whatever.</p><p></p><p>And if they succeed then Hasbro has another property that they can produce toys from, or they can license out to make movies or tv shows or whatever. It's actually in Wizards interests to create new IP and get it out to a wide audience even if (especially because?) their parent company often acts more like an IP management company than a toy and game company these days.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Or - now hear me out - Wizards might have done a lot of financial and market analysis and see the potential to make a lot of money if they were also publishing video games in addition to publishing boardgames, card games, and RPGs. I really hope that's what it is, because if you want to lose a whole lot of money very quickly, one thing you can do is jump into building an entirely new business in an entirely new area that is incredibly expensive to break into - which the video game industry is - without doing your due diligence to make sure that the move is going to be profitable for you if you succeed.</p><p></p><p>(I know at one time that the video game rights for all of Hasbro's properties were already tied up with contracts that Hasbro had with studios - it may be that's still the case and if so then the reason to create an entirely new property is obvious because it's not encumbered by any rights contracts that already exist).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7906572, member: 19857"] Because you want to generate new IP rather than just recycling the same IP over and over again? I mean, I hope that's what they're doing because I'd really like to see more "new" ideas getting produced instead of just looking back to properties from the last 50 years and trying to figure out how to "make them fresh" or whatever. And if they succeed then Hasbro has another property that they can produce toys from, or they can license out to make movies or tv shows or whatever. It's actually in Wizards interests to create new IP and get it out to a wide audience even if (especially because?) their parent company often acts more like an IP management company than a toy and game company these days. Or - now hear me out - Wizards might have done a lot of financial and market analysis and see the potential to make a lot of money if they were also publishing video games in addition to publishing boardgames, card games, and RPGs. I really hope that's what it is, because if you want to lose a whole lot of money very quickly, one thing you can do is jump into building an entirely new business in an entirely new area that is incredibly expensive to break into - which the video game industry is - without doing your due diligence to make sure that the move is going to be profitable for you if you succeed. (I know at one time that the video game rights for all of Hasbro's properties were already tied up with contracts that Hasbro had with studios - it may be that's still the case and if so then the reason to create an entirely new property is obvious because it's not encumbered by any rights contracts that already exist). [/QUOTE]
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