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Thanlis posted:The policy went up after most of the resignations; it reads a little bit like shutting the barn door after he realized how angry the horses were. And the horses were angry because he wasn’t agreeing to not use AI. Called it, as did 3 Action Economist.
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FMguru posted:All that weirdness around Evil Genius Games seems to have gotten some journalism done about it: https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-rise-and-fall-of-evil-genius-games.702617/ I had definitely been confusing Evil Genius and Evil Hat, and am very thankful that the latter isn't the one having the scandal
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Nuns with Guns posted:If you're doing this on facebook I'd be careful about giving details here. Someone will probably tattle about your posts here and might be able to doxx you from cross-comparing poo poo. Hey not a bad idea.
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 Lol if I had known this a month ago, none of this would come as a surprise. (Sorry for the screenshot, ENWorld seems to have some sort of overlay thing that fucks up normal text selection.) EDIT: these guys are always like this 
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What the gently caress do you need blockchain and NFT's for in ttrpg development?
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Of all the possible places for a gang of rich techbros to try their luck at being "disruptors", they chose the famously low-margin/low-sales TTRPG industry for some drat reason.
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Pvt.Scott posted:What the gently caress do you need blockchain and NFT's for in ttrpg development? I mean if they did it like 2 years ago they likely could have ran some dumb investor for money and gotten a bag In 2024, loving lmao.
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  Dave sounds like a great boss.  Oh never mind it's just a dozen people making stuff up for no good reason.
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Dexo posted:I mean if they did it like 2 years ago they likely could have ran some dumb investor for money and gotten a bag Toph Bei Fong posted:I had definitely been confusing Evil Genius and Evil Hat, and am very thankful that the latter isn't the one having the scandal
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That Old Tree posted:Oh never mind it's just a dozen people making stuff up for no good reason. Oh, thank goodness, he investigated himself and found no wrongdoing.
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MadScientistWorking posted:You know this whole discussion ended up reminding me that apparently Gripnr is still a thing and Im so tempted to see sign up for it to see what happened with it. I'm still in the discord, it has gone absolutely nowhere as far as being a nft platform, they're basically charging roughly the usual paid GM prices to play the same 3-4 adventures on a vtt over and over.
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xiw posted:I'm still in the discord, it has gone absolutely nowhere as far as being a nft platform, they're basically charging roughly the usual paid GM prices to play the same 3-4 adventures on a vtt over and over. This is that service where you pay to have someone give you a level 12 barbarian who earned the scars and magic items because someone played through some modules, right?
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FMguru posted:All that weirdness around Evil Genius Games seems to have gotten some journalism done about it: https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-rise-and-fall-of-evil-genius-games.702617/ The link to the 'Web 3 White Paper' gives you insight into some wonderfully stupid ideas for monetizing RPGs. My favorite is the idea that a real chef could make money selling meals to player characters for an in-game buff. I don't know if it's funnier if Scott was knowingly scamming crypto bros with idiotic ideas, or if he was actually delusional enough to think these were workable concepts himself.
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Just Winging It posted:NFTs in 2024... Dexo posted:In 2024, loving lmao. Holy shiiiit. What a loving moron.
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I didn't see this scrolling back, have we talked about it? https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2024/02/13/magic-dd-maker-hasbro-lost-over-1bn-in-q4-predicts-wotc-revenue-decline-in-2024/ Latest earnings report from Hasbro is a disaster, they lost a billion last year and whilst Wizards performs well they expect it to be less successful next year due to no BG3-scale release on the horizon.
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Shrug, any losses are going to be mitigated by layoffs(I love this financial system woo) Also that just said largely WotC isn't going to outperform expectations due to no BG3. Rip to the rest of Hasbro tho lmao. Most of this just comes down to we didn't make all the money, and also we took a bath trimming the company down this year from selling that TV and Movie company. Dexo fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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Yeah, they can always make up those losses by firing more creative personnel from the only division showing a profit.
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Laying people off can juice your numbers but Hasbro doesn't have enough employees left to lay off a literal billion dollars worth. Like if they literally laid off everyone the average salary at Hasbro would have to be six figures to get a billion dollars. Hasbro don't pay that well. Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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How the heck do you even lose a billion dollars while owning D&D, D&D Beyond, and Magic?
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So, The layoffs they already made last December and earlier this year were in response to these numbers. This is just when they had to make their report on what happened. The "billion" dollar loss isn't "real" money lol. It's share price value. *pours one out for the poor Hasbro shareholders* quote:Adjusted operating profit of $477 million and adjusted operating margin of 9.5%, including non-recurring inventory costs. Hasbro made a total of like 477 millon profit last year lol. They just didn't hit their projections and underperformed which in our lovely economic system matters far more than like actually making money. But the headlines "HASBRO LOSES 1BN DOLLARS" are so much more sexy than "Hasbro's shares drop like 10 bux due to underperformance, and taking a bath writing down and selling a film and entertainment branch." Dexo fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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Oh, so no real loss at all. Just have to do something pointlessly cruel to get stock traders turned on again.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Oh, so no real loss at all. Just have to do something pointlessly cruel to get stock traders turned on again.  Like it's a "loss". But not something that dooms you at that level.
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It's time once again for "Hasbro stock price comparisons for lols" Hasbro stock is down 10% in the last year. The Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ) (the closest Industry analog I could find) and the Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund (VIMAX) are both up about 4% and 4.4% over the same period respectively. Over the last 5 years, Hasbro stock is down 39.3%. PEJ is only up .78% while VIMAX is up nearly 48%. For what it's worth, the S&P 500 was up 20.69% last year and 80.34% in the last five. lol
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hyphz posted:How the heck do you even lose a billion dollars while owning D&D, D&D Beyond, and Magic? The number must always go up. Always. It's 21st century Captialism baybay!
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Terrible Opinions posted:Oh, so no real loss at all. Just have to do something pointlessly cruel to get stock traders turned on again. quote:Hasbro paid out $388m in cash dividends to shareholders last year, and paid down its debt by more than $500m. "And by "Fewer, Bigger, Better" we're talking about salary structure!"
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joylessdivision posted:The number must always go up. Always. It's 21st century Captialism baybay! I asked what about slow, steady gains that show an increase overall and would provide a foundation for even more in the future and they tossed me out a window.
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KingKalamari posted:"And by "Fewer, Bigger, Better" we're talking about salary structure!" Well they’re certainly not talking about MTG releases.
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hyphz posted:How the heck do you even lose a billion dollars while owning D&D, D&D Beyond, and Magic? Like the games, it's all made up by a group of players who agree to a shared fiction it's real.
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1758655172992254200 Hasbro is about to make their money back.
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1758655172992254200 Only so many board games can be turned into movies. Clue? Sure, classic whodunit. But you couldn't make a movie out of a game like battleship, that would be stupid.
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Clue already has a perfect movie that can never be outdone. Although maybe a Muppet version....
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IPs should be like Kleenex. Soft, strong, and disposable.
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ive never heard of this game, it's like among us meets great gatsby? those are popular, they could pull it off. characters moving around different rooms to do the tasks, people caught alone getting killed, the drama of the votes, ejecting the wrong person...Leraika posted:IPs should be like Kleenex. Soft, strong, and disposable. 
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There's already a Clue movie, Knives Out
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gradenko_2000 posted:There's already a Clue movie, Knives Out Glass Onion was based on Fireball Island.
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