Hasbro is going to absolute shambles. How do you see the future of Wizards of the Coast IPs in vidya? They are among the only Hasbro owned IPs worth anything and will be up for sale if they really get in trouble.
Hasbro is going to absolute shambles. How do you see the future of Wizards of the Coast IPs in vidya?
>get one of the biggest IPs for your card game
>turn some of the most iconic characters into Black folk for brownie points from your israelite overlords
>act shocked when nobody likes or buys it
Bravo, WoTC.
>something happens with big company
>"well obviously this is all because of (product I care about) and has nothing to do with the products I don't care about"
how does this happen everytime?
Magic the Gathering, D&D products and Monopoly are quite literally only profitable things Hasbro has. Even with all the nogs, MtG whales are keeping them in life support. Everything else Hasbro their hands on is in freefall.
Speaking of profit, we all know MLP was huge in the last decade, but what about now? I'm genuinely curious here
Hasbro's own brands are in decline but not irreversibly so, it is their partnerships and non-Hasbro toys like Star Wars and Marvel products that are really shitting the bed.
https://hasbro.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2023-financial
>making every franchise extremely israeli and normie friendly
>-3%
you cant make this shit up
Whales with Stockholm syndrome and sunk cost fallacy just can't help themselves.
It's gotten smaller. Them intentionally shitting on the fanbase in later seasons tanked the brand for a lot of people. All the forced diversity, bad writing, new writers not watching the show that they're writing for, and disdain for the fans that people complain about super hero movies, star wars, d&d, etc was happening back then. Mlp normally has a thread up around the time of each investor meeting because enough people own stock if you're curious.
The takeaway is Hasbro's going for a minimum viable product that'll be marketable to the general public, instead of niche audiences. They see nerds as a market as a whole, and are unable to differentiate between a horse fricker, a star wars fanboy, and a magic card whale.
How can a cartoon about ponies have forced diversity
By opening a school for other magical creatures to learn about pony harmony and focusing on them instead of the main six characters that the show was based on. Dragons, griffons, yaks, hippogriffs, etc.
Ironically enough the new show is set in a world where the pony kingdom broke down after that and the three pony types became isolationism racists towards each other.
peppa pig is fricking huge. also probably my little pony
What about Transformers?
It solds like crazy in japan
Yeah, transformers are selling well. Their main issue are the warehouses full of Rey Skywalker toys. And I do mean multiple warehouses. Even Ollie's won't take those toys.
>multiple warehouses
Wtf, is Hasbro pulling a SEGA with Star Wars?
No wonder why they're starting to starve
I think they are stuck in similar shit deals as comic book stores are stuck in with Marvel/DC. If comic book stores want to sell any Batman or Spider-man at all, they are obliged to also put woke garbage on their shelves or the blacklist calls. Hasbro is probably under same contractual obligation, if they want to sell Darth Vader figures and Luke Skywalker's lightsaber that means they they must also push nu-SW toys, and Hasbro then pushes that shit on retailers with repeating similar blackmail.
Reminds me of all those shelves filled with Rose or whatever her name from episode 8 was, who everyone hated
I like how even MTG had to go the collab route to make money now
>send pinkertons to your own customer because your own blunder sending unreleased cards to him.
>turn newest DND to be subscription only, people who want to adapt it must give hasbro 25% of their revenue, and gives hasbro rights to use whatever shit you're using for that adaptation without even crediting you. Also they cancelled the previous free ruleset license and the revenue thing is retroactive, so every single DND adaptation will get fricked by this new rule.
What the frick is going on at Hasbro
They walked most of that back but the brand damage is done.
MTG is the only thing holding them up. Those secret lair things were a stroke of genius.
I haven't bought any mtg products in like 4 years at this point but I reckon LOTR was a massive success
Ruling Gondor, plowing elf pussy and sheet
Wait a minute. I thought Baldur’s Gate 3 did well?
the movie flopped and their pissed off alot of ppl with the OGL shit that aren't coming back to dnd
the movie was ok though.
and larian dont own DnD they borrowed it. hasbro has nothing to do with larian.
BG3 was one of the few bright spots for Hasbro. They've already made $90 million in royalties from it. Everything else is screwed.
~~*hasbro*~~ is way bigger than baldurs gate
hasbro CEOs are completely out of touch they don't have a clue how to make money with the IPs they own
so, like xbox? maybe hasbro should go third party lmao
>xbox out of nowhere
rent free
Isn’t that a pedo game?
No, quite the opposite there was considerable outrage about "not a real bear so bestiality is ok" being made by people who would contest the same with not a real child
How the hell did dominions never get shit from wizards over Ilithids
I think hasbro will essentialy just become wizards of the coast with everything else left at the wayside (except monopoly)
I have recollection and might be talking shit, but I recall that Wizards once went to court with some dude over mindflayers and for some reason it was decreed that they fall into generic enough fantasy creature category like orcs and elves.
Might have been even before Wizards took control of the IP as Final Fantasy has never shied away from using Mind Flayer type enemies to this day and was left unchanged in the NES FF1 localization despite them changing the Beholder sprite into something original.
Didn't that ones result in some "mindflayers are common fantasy, calling them Illithids gets you sued" hairsplitting?
I would assume so, but then i'm pretty sure the game does say illithid, maybe i'm just looking at old ass wiki stuff i'll check
nope still says illithids
The terms Mindflayer and Beholder are both copyrighted terms, but to my knowledge their likenesses aren't protected, just the names.
I'm just gonna start ordering my custom commander decks on makeplayingcards. Frick wizards. I bought probably ten boosters in the last two sets and didn't get shit.
>completely fumbles Transformers
>He man ruined by that shitty Netflix film
>MLP hasnt been able to replicate anything close to the success it had 10 years ago
>GI Joe hasnt been relevant since the 80's no matter how much they try
>Power Rangers hasnt been relevant since the 90's
>Toyline declining because kids dont buy toys these days
>Several fumbles with WOTC with only BG3 being a success
All they gotta do is reboot MLP G4. A second brony revolution. It would practically print money.
>goes broke after obvious foreseeable frickups caused by sheer moronation and laziness
Holy shit bros they're literally me.
maybe they shouldn't have alienated the entire DnD fanbase.
get replaced with pathfinder and other systems frankly. and rip gary you didnt deserve this shit.
I'm guessing this is going to be the year they drop Disney/Lucasfilm. If bargain bin stores won't even touch their product then it's over. You cannot work with dead brands and expect a ROI.
They were bullied.
Reminder that a under a decade ago MLP was a billion dollar franchise and one of their biggest things and they completely threw it all away. That and shitty spending on acquisitions certainly isn't helping, in the 2010s they could always rely on MLP but can't now.
Hasbro was printing money with small horses, but they threw it all away