Bunch of party poopers can't leave a man dream? XD

Of course it's not Hasbro course correcting, I'm still cellebrating some cancel pigs lost their jobs.

I'd love to see the lawfare / legal yoga that would ensue, if Mike Mearls released an adventure for Pathfinder 2E; that featured a floating eyeball monster.

Quote from: Monero on December 12, 2023, 08:57:46 PM
It would be incredible if Hasbro tanks and they're forced to sell their IPs. I'd love for D&D and Magic to be bought by somebody that gives a fuck and doesn't hate their REAL supporters.

Problem is the IPs would likely end up in some morons hands like Star Frontiers and Torg did.

Hasbro is declining in large part because toy sales in general are declining. Gen Z and A grew up addicted to phones and don't buy physical toys anymore. The only people who buy toys now are collectors and Hasbro isn't interested in them.

It's a real pity, because they have a lot of IP they could monetize. Instead we got a Paramount+ show where Optimus and Megatron are buds with no explanation.

Quote from: Omega on December 13, 2023, 07:23:27 AM

Quote from: Monero on December 12, 2023, 08:57:46 PM
It would be incredible if Hasbro tanks and they're forced to sell their IPs. I'd love for D&D and Magic to be bought by somebody that gives a fuck and doesn't hate their REAL supporters.

Problem is the IPs would likely end up in some morons hands like Star Frontiers and Torg did.

Also, MtG and D&D are some of the only things still making them any money (D&D only because of BG3 royalties, but still more coming in than going out from that vector.

Basically, MtG and D&D will probably be the last things sold off (along with Monopoly).

More likely as they spiral past the point where job cuts will save them* is they'll let go of the "toxically masculine" toy lines like G.I.Joe or Transformers that companies like Netflix or Microsoft might want as a content/game IP (because Mattel is in just as bad a shape and Disney has got their own cash flow problems).

One of Hasbro's lasting problems is that a lot of their biggest sellers are media tie-ins (particularly Star Wars/Marvel/Disney properties). When the entertainment is trash, no one wants toys of it and so there go your profits.

Basically, Hasbro is being kept afloat by price-hikes on their cardboard gambling packs and royalties from a game they had almost no hand in developing (and isn't sustainable income) and which still only barely covered the losses from the D&DBeyond debacle with the OGL1.1).

Things tend to happen slowly at first, then all at once. "Get Woke, Go Broke" is like that; but eventually the ESG investment dollars dry up (which is what's happening now) and the woke idiots put in charge by ESG compliance have no clue how to not be woke idiots and so just push the yoke forward instead of trying to level off.

2024 is going to be anything but boring as Woke companies supply all sorts of entertainment they never intended. You'll need lots of popcorn.

* between this and earlier cuts they've fired 1900 of the 5600 employees they had in 2021... a third of their workforce gone in a single year. There's likely zero fat left to cut employee side (and what's left is probably pretty demoralized by one-in-three of their co-workers being fired and wondering when it's their turn).

MTG sales are up 20%, however WotC's revenue only rose by 3% this quarter, I wonder what is dragging down WotC's profitability - eyeing D&D failing sales.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on December 13, 2023, 09:54:34 AM
MTG sales are up 20%, however WotC's revenue only rose by 3% this quarter, I wonder what is dragging down WotC's profitability - eyeing D&D failing sales.

I think that the biggest hit was making toys tied to Disney movies.

Quote from: Reckall on December 13, 2023, 10:07:33 AM

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on December 13, 2023, 09:54:34 AM
MTG sales are up 20%, however WotC's revenue only rose by 3% this quarter, I wonder what is dragging down WotC's profitability - eyeing D&D failing sales.

I think that the biggest hit was making toys tied to Disney movies.

Toys hurt them, but they just got their cut from BG3 sales for D&D, and gee somehow WotC only had a 3% yoy revenue growth.  It likely means that D&D is tanking and tanking very hard and hurting WotC's overall sales.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on December 13, 2023, 09:54:34 AM
MTG sales are up 20%, however WotC's revenue only rose by 3% this quarter, I wonder what is dragging down WotC's profitability - eyeing D&D failing sales.

Canceled DNDBeyond subs.

The boycott worked.

20% sales increase for MtG is pretty impressive. Unfortunately, both WotC and D&D will probably live on for a good long while.

Quote from: daft on December 13, 2023, 12:21:39 PM
20% sales increase for MtG is pretty impressive. Unfortunately, both WotC and D&D will probably live on for a good long while.

If MTG increased sales by 20% and WotC only saw a 3% sales increase, what does that mean?

Hmm, something in WotC is dragging them down.

Well BG3 did gangbusters and that's D&D. Huh, the other BU of WotC is D&D.  If you look at their other BU's they are new or funded, usually they don't cause problems financially.  Then you have D&D that has been around for a while, that has spent a year stepping on their dicks using censors and trash talking their white customers.  They just lost their publishing deal and are getting ready for an edition change meaning less people buying.  I'm willing to bet, the taint known as D&D is dragging down WotC.

https://company.wizards.com/en/who-we-are

Clownfish TV has been covering this Hasbro/WotC downfall for awhile now.....

Quote from: daft on December 13, 2023, 12:21:39 PM
20% sales increase for MtG is pretty impressive. Unfortunately, both WotC and D&D will probably live on for a good long while.

Not if they keep putting out crap like this.....

Hey they put out their Radiance module, it sold so well my hobby shop still has the same two module son the wall right now.  25K physical for Radiant Citadel vs 75K physical for Descent into Avernus.  Who'd have thought that racist advertising and writing doesn't sell.  It's almost as if those progressives in Seattle are on the racist side of history instead of the right side of history.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on December 13, 2023, 10:21:15 AM

Quote from: Reckall on December 13, 2023, 10:07:33 AM

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on December 13, 2023, 09:54:34 AM
MTG sales are up 20%, however WotC's revenue only rose by 3% this quarter, I wonder what is dragging down WotC's profitability - eyeing D&D failing sales.

I think that the biggest hit was making toys tied to Disney movies.

Toys hurt them, but they just got their cut from BG3 sales for D&D, and gee somehow WotC only had a 3% yoy revenue growth.  It likely means that D&D is tanking and tanking very hard and hurting WotC's overall sales.

Low toy sales hurt Hasbro, which in turn puts more pressure in WotC, but as far as I know WotC doesn't make toys. Unless you count the minis and terrain at 3 dollars a pop in Ollies.