Apparently Tencent is a potential buyer? (Presumably Larian would replace Wizards in this arrangement).
You know what? I'd be happy to be rid of Perkins.
Hasbro's looking to sell D&D
Apparently Tencent is a potential buyer? (Presumably Larian would replace Wizards in this arrangement).
You know what? I'd be happy to be rid of Perkins.
Incredibly based. WotC has been ruining the game for over a decade now. Pretty much anyone (except maybe Disney) would be an improvement at this point.
We needed a third thread on this topic?
Whoops. I guess we all came across it at the same time.
It's been 6 hours, homosexual.
Switching to Tencent is not an upgrade. Enjoy funding CCP spyware and whatever bioterror the government is cooking up next.
I'd be pretty happy to see Larian manage D&D (Tencent owns 30% of Larian).
>Spyware
In books?
I'm already preparing my resume just in case. I'm coming Swen Vincke.
It's a death sentence, if anything. As bad as Hasbro's board of Corpo monetization experts already is, Tencent will be worse.
This is nothing but a good thing if true. The whole medium will be better for it when D&Dogshit finally dies. The secondaries and normies might even frick off and find something else to ruin.
It won't be dead, it'll be another thing exploited by CCP-backed fricks. The shitheads will just change from normies to wumao fricks and simpy cathayans.
Oh, I'm all for D&D dying. I just think people are being so short-sighted with their hatred for Hasbro, which is deserved and right to have, that they think Tencent will be an improvement in any way just because it's not Hasbro.
You have no idea what those words mean, you tourist. D&D needs to be buried because of its sacred cows and market domination, not because of your paranoid culture war.
>The secondaries and normies might even frick off and find something else to ruin.
Frick off. DnD is an excellent containment game for them.
I think he means something in another medium of entertainment entirely.
>Help me, I'm a mutant who can't coexist with humans
I don't see what the problem is. The world is big enough that different people can like different things. Who the frick cares if D&D is popular? Stop being a hipster c**t.
how did you type that while you were giving Stephen Crowder a reach around?
>It's a death sentence.
It seems unlikely to me that Tencent could be any worse than Hasbro (I think they'll tell Larian to handle it), but it's not like the slop Hasbro's been putting out has been worth buying. If it dies, it dies.
I'm already subject to attacks by bioterror weapons far worse than anything out of the CCP, cheered on by subhumans like WotC.
I don't have a horse in this race.
You joke, but it's possible to embed javascript in PDFs to make them phone home.
Actually yes. I meant their VTT stuff, but I didn't consider that you can seed PDFs with stuff too. Either way, you're probably funding the next Wuhan terror project to flood the world. Just let things accelerate into West Taiwan instead already!
>Tencent owns Turtle Rock.
>Turtle Rock's lead director Phil Robb is a major investor in MCDM.
Fatt Colville will be the next product manager of D&D.
>Turtle Rock's lead director Phil Robb is a major investor in MCDM.
That's because Coleville was a designer at Turtle Rock.
Anyone who of Fatt Colville knows that. He can't go more than 20 minutes without mentioning it. The point still stands, tbh. He will be the next creative lead of D&D.
>He will be the next creative lead of D&D.
Can't wait for the return to 4e.
Do you guys actually read into what your discussing. Tencent doesn't want to buy the entire thing just the videogame rights
>Do you guys actually read into what your discussing. Tencent doesn't want to buy the entire thing just the videogame rights
Nope. The deal that's being discussed is majority rights.
>Nope. The deal that's being discussed is majority rights.
absolutely moronic, Tencent wan'ts video game rights so they can shoehorn microtransactions. they dont want the tabletop game.
>Ganker
>reading
jej
>Either way, the video game rights are the valuable part.
They're not selling the video game rights, they are looking to sell majority rights.
As in, the entire IP as a whole excluding rights already piecemeal sold to non-Wizards entities. Which would be Larian... so its literally just the entire IP.
My point is that the game rights are the part worth buying, so it doesn't matter.
You will roll gacha for foxgirl waifus in 6e.
Imagine the sheer synchronicity if Tencent winds up buying some portion of D&D right as the Year of the Dragon kicks off, and on the game's 50th anniversary.
Gong xi fa cai.
>Apparently Tencent is a potential buyer?
Wow, they found someone worse than Hasbro or TSR. Truly impressive. I welcome our new shovelware mobile game overlords.
Your low-IQ troonery doesn't work any more. Leftism lost again and you're utterly powerless to distract from that fact. The world rejected you and you were on the wrong side of history.
>Prosus, which is 73%-owned by Naspers, holds a 28.9% stake in Tencent. Historically, Naspers and Prosus have traded at a significant discount to ...
The funniest thing about fear of the Chinese is that their biggest corporations are significantly owned/invested in by South Africans.
Dungeons and Zulus.