Probably simply ran out of money. Hasbro is in terrible shape. Firing the D&D team was part of cost-cutting. Except Mearls, they wanted rid of him for being a troublemaker.
>Except Mearls, they wanted rid of him for being a troublemaker
I've seen this posted randomly on like multiple different posts.
You choads had 'fire Mike Mearls' on your Twitter accounts for half a decade, and nobody gave a shit.
Now, everyone gets laid off, including him, and you're insisting his firing was unrelated to the layoffs, and jerking each other off like you achieved something.
>your Twitter accounts
No, YOU are the gay. >and you're insisting his firing was unrelated to the layoffs, and jerking each other off like you achieved something.
Given the state of this board in the face of goings-on, there is no way a single anon can respond to this accusation in any concise manner without the post being immediately deleted and the anon in question getting b&. If you know, you know and Mearls is only one piece of the puzzle.
>So there is an explanation but it "goes to another school... in Canada."
Yes. We're not allowed to talk about how Mike Mearls was laid off because went to court three times for harassment as it might lead to a discussion topic which is highly suppressed on this board. >Does its father work for Sony and can get me banned too?
If by Sony you mean any popular RPG discussion forum or website, yes.
>Except Mearls, they wanted rid of him for being a troublemaker
I've seen this posted randomly on like multiple different posts.
You choads had 'fire Mike Mearls' on your Twitter accounts for half a decade, and nobody gave a shit.
Now, everyone gets laid off, including him, and you're insisting his firing was unrelated to the layoffs, and jerking each other off like you achieved something.
>your Twitter accounts
No, YOU are the gay. >and you're insisting his firing was unrelated to the layoffs, and jerking each other off like you achieved something.
Given the state of this board in the face of goings-on, there is no way a single anon can respond to this accusation in any concise manner without the post being immediately deleted and the anon in question getting b&. If you know, you know and Mearls is only one piece of the puzzle.
Wait they actually fired that homosexual? LOL based!
Mattel's just picked up a nasty case of ̶v̶u̶l̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶i̶s̶t̶ "Activist Investor" as well, so its pretty bad all over. Maybe Barington Capital will go for a two-fer to really ransack the market.
Probably simply ran out of money. Hasbro is in terrible shape. Firing the D&D team was part of cost-cutting. Except Mearls, they wanted rid of him for being a troublemaker.
Where was their VTT being developed? Somebody should check the local news for any reports of recent murder suicides.
If I recall, a lot of the D&Done VTT stuff wasn't being developed in house for the same reasons WotC was swearing up and down that *they* weren't doing anything with AI at WotC, but then it turned out they had contracted out some third party company to develop AI shit in some vague context they have not ever elaborated on since getting caught. They've spent over a billion dollars on this shit and have nothing to show for it by a few cringey youtube videos.
>when Wizards of the Coast's R&D tries to "make the future" of gaming via D&D4e >their VTT plans fell apart back then too >the character generator was written in Microsoft Silverlight
Blessed be the Zoomers, who will never suffer the bullshit that was Silverlight. And seeing a SECOND in-house VTT never coming to life.
No, no, that's not even what happened. The character builder was written normally at first and even released with just about everyone loving it... and then they changed it and the compendium over to Silverlight because the builder could be used offline.
Because that one guy was actually competent, whereas the Hasbro's dev team was almost certainly made up of the cheapest Indian code monkeys they could find.
It isn't particularly harder than game development or many other types of software development. It is easier than working on SpaceX's self landing rockets. The problem is that Hasbro, like basically all western entertainment companies, has three major sins when it comes to software development >Wants to pay peanuts while expecting the hours that a top tier company expects >Actively hostile work environment to white non-leftoid (aka skilled) engineers >No budget for software teams, instead bloating admin budgets, marketing, HR etc
All of the talented western developers left the entertainment industry 12+ years ago. It is a disaster, there is a massive competency problem now.
>All of the talented western developers left the entertainment industry 12+ years ago. It is a disaster, there is a massive competency problem now.
This.
I had a friend who talked about the hell of living in California and super hell that was working for games/film companies just to build up his resume, because no one hires new graduates with degrees in computer related fields except the entertainment industries.
Then he left it entirely to work for the federal government for a third of the hours, five times the pay, and benefits guaranteed for life.
>Try to nuke VTTs with incredibly hostile (and illegal) OGL "update" that bans creating or supporting them for OGL products >Fail horribly and drive 3PP developers away from your system, now that you've shat all over your own golden goose >Try to sell D&D IP to Larian after BG3; they refuse (although talks with parent company Tencent continue) >Having abjectly failed to kneecap VTTs like you intended, give up and partner with theme instead
Can't wait for /tg/ to turn on Foundry because "WOW IT SOLD OUT TO D&DOGSHIT GUYS COME USE THIS SHITTY OBSCURE VTT WITH A FRACTION OF THE FEATURES AT DOUBLE THE COST AND WITH HALF THE RELIABILITY" like the insufferable contrarians (you) are.
If the official WotC modules can be bought and played on Foundry, that is a big deal. Roll20 has been coasting as the biggest VTT for 5e despite sucking literal butthole because they've had the blessing of WotC's cooperation.
I wonder if there DnD one vtt fell apart. It didn't look too good and they are way behind on the vtt market
Probably simply ran out of money. Hasbro is in terrible shape. Firing the D&D team was part of cost-cutting. Except Mearls, they wanted rid of him for being a troublemaker.
>Except Mearls, they wanted rid of him for being a troublemaker
I've seen this posted randomly on like multiple different posts.
You choads had 'fire Mike Mearls' on your Twitter accounts for half a decade, and nobody gave a shit.
Now, everyone gets laid off, including him, and you're insisting his firing was unrelated to the layoffs, and jerking each other off like you achieved something.
>your Twitter accounts
No, YOU are the gay.
>and you're insisting his firing was unrelated to the layoffs, and jerking each other off like you achieved something.
Given the state of this board in the face of goings-on, there is no way a single anon can respond to this accusation in any concise manner without the post being immediately deleted and the anon in question getting b&. If you know, you know and Mearls is only one piece of the puzzle.
So there is an explanation but it "goes to another school... in Canada." Does its father work for Sony and can get me banned too?
>So there is an explanation but it "goes to another school... in Canada."
Yes. We're not allowed to talk about how Mike Mearls was laid off because went to court three times for harassment as it might lead to a discussion topic which is highly suppressed on this board.
>Does its father work for Sony and can get me banned too?
If by Sony you mean any popular RPG discussion forum or website, yes.
You just described this board's culture
It didn't used to be. Those were better times.
You should probably take your thorazine, I have no clue what Twitter nonsense you're hallucinating.
Wait they actually fired that homosexual? LOL based!
Mattel's just picked up a nasty case of ̶v̶u̶l̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶i̶s̶t̶ "Activist Investor" as well, so its pretty bad all over. Maybe Barington Capital will go for a two-fer to really ransack the market.
Where was their VTT being developed? Somebody should check the local news for any reports of recent murder suicides.
If I recall, a lot of the D&Done VTT stuff wasn't being developed in house for the same reasons WotC was swearing up and down that *they* weren't doing anything with AI at WotC, but then it turned out they had contracted out some third party company to develop AI shit in some vague context they have not ever elaborated on since getting caught. They've spent over a billion dollars on this shit and have nothing to show for it by a few cringey youtube videos.
lawl
They're in Renton. It's more likely a trapdoor murder hobo caught them and dragged them to Seattle.
>when Wizards of the Coast's R&D tries to "make the future" of gaming via D&D4e
>their VTT plans fell apart back then too
>the character generator was written in Microsoft Silverlight
Blessed be the Zoomers, who will never suffer the bullshit that was Silverlight. And seeing a SECOND in-house VTT never coming to life.
Doesn't Netflix use Silverlight?
They did over 10 years ago.
No, no, that's not even what happened. The character builder was written normally at first and even released with just about everyone loving it... and then they changed it and the compendium over to Silverlight because the builder could be used offline.
who else would be paying to play ttrpgs like a videogame but dndtards?
Why is it so hard to make a VTT anyways
Wasn’t Foundry originally made by like, one guy? Why couldn’t Hasbro pull it off
Because that one guy was actually competent, whereas the Hasbro's dev team was almost certainly made up of the cheapest Indian code monkeys they could find.
It isn't particularly harder than game development or many other types of software development. It is easier than working on SpaceX's self landing rockets. The problem is that Hasbro, like basically all western entertainment companies, has three major sins when it comes to software development
>Wants to pay peanuts while expecting the hours that a top tier company expects
>Actively hostile work environment to white non-leftoid (aka skilled) engineers
>No budget for software teams, instead bloating admin budgets, marketing, HR etc
All of the talented western developers left the entertainment industry 12+ years ago. It is a disaster, there is a massive competency problem now.
>All of the talented western developers left the entertainment industry 12+ years ago. It is a disaster, there is a massive competency problem now.
This.
I had a friend who talked about the hell of living in California and super hell that was working for games/film companies just to build up his resume, because no one hires new graduates with degrees in computer related fields except the entertainment industries.
Then he left it entirely to work for the federal government for a third of the hours, five times the pay, and benefits guaranteed for life.
I thought Hasbro was working on a 3D VTT that was fully integrated with Beyond or some shit
Maybe they were but considering they have zero money left, they probably aren't no more.
>Try to nuke VTTs with incredibly hostile (and illegal) OGL "update" that bans creating or supporting them for OGL products
>Fail horribly and drive 3PP developers away from your system, now that you've shat all over your own golden goose
>Try to sell D&D IP to Larian after BG3; they refuse (although talks with parent company Tencent continue)
>Having abjectly failed to kneecap VTTs like you intended, give up and partner with theme instead
Hasbros, times are tough.
>>Try to sell D&D IP to Larian after BG3; they refuse (although talks with parent company Tencent continue)
LMAO you fell for AI generated clickbait
Can't wait for /tg/ to turn on Foundry because "WOW IT SOLD OUT TO D&DOGSHIT GUYS COME USE THIS SHITTY OBSCURE VTT WITH A FRACTION OF THE FEATURES AT DOUBLE THE COST AND WITH HALF THE RELIABILITY" like the insufferable contrarians (you) are.
Nah, Foundry is good. The fact Hasbo finally bent the knee is just the cherry on top
Double standards much? This just proves you culture war homosexuals are all the same, left or right you're hypocrites and lack consistent values.
that will happen the minute Plutonium gets banned and Anon can't use 5etools any more on Foundry
And lo, not one single frick was given upon that day
>Captcha Y00DA
Are all of you people moronic? They just want people to buy their modules for VTT. This is not a significant partnership.
If the official WotC modules can be bought and played on Foundry, that is a big deal. Roll20 has been coasting as the biggest VTT for 5e despite sucking literal butthole because they've had the blessing of WotC's cooperation.
Isn't Hasbro dying?