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Message: <blockquote data-quote="occam" data-source="post: 9645525" data-attributes="member: 39815">I think it is relevant. By using the word "megacorp", you imply that Hasbro is essentially untouchable, immune to any meaningful challenge by governmental action or economic whirlwinds, a titanic force straddling the globe. There are corporations like that, but Hasbro is definitely not one of them.I know it might seem like it is, if all you're looking at is D&D. And it's arguably true that Hasbro is, at this time, "too big to fail" when it comes to TTRPGs. But that is a teeny tiny market in the scheme of things, laughably so from the perspective of actual megacorps. (This was brought home to me when I realized several years ago that a company I worked for, a mid-sized private (at the time) corporation that struggled to survive making casual video games and which almost nobody had ever heard of, made several times the revenue of all of D&D; more than WotC, in fact, even including MtG.)So you want to feel bad that Hasbro has relatively limited exposure to tariff effects, when it's because they positioned themselves to continue supporting the American economy by retaining domestic manufacturing capabilities to supply their US customers instead of offshoring all of it, while also sourcing from local manufacturing in Europe and APAC (and in Tokyo instead of China) for their customers abroad, all of which is very un-megacorp-like behavior? You do you. But some of us, at least, have other things to PO'd about.</blockquote>

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