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WarComm occasionally runs an article about them, but three to five articles go up on WarComm each day so they fade fast.
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Leperflesh posted:the nerds who make lists on wikipedia have us covered and gosh there's so, so many games I never heard of on here. quote:A "Warhammer 40,000 Special Pack" downloadable content expansion was released on 27 February 2024, adding five units from Warhammer 40,000 to the game.[28]
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FMguru posted:The game is PowerWash Simulator, lmao Yeah it owns lol
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Mar 28, 2024 20:07
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FMguru posted:The game is PowerWash Simulator, lmao Lmfao excellent
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It would appear as though the folks in North Dakota are circling the wagons. They're deleting comments about Phoenix, blocking commenters, and while she isn't listed on their website, she's still on the Facebook, and it seems she'll be the secret guest host of some tavern event. Presumably the social media manager met them at a party and they were just so supportive and super cool. That's usually how this particular grift works.
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FMguru posted:The game is PowerWash Simulator, lmao You should watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poh5bt6s7oU
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Liquid Communism posted:That wasn't a rep, that was their CEO and the director of BG3. They canned work on expansions and BG4 because everyone they worked with at WotC got got in the Christmas layoffs and they saw the writing on the wall about working with Hasbro. They're not going to burn WoTC over it, because they want to play nice for future opportunities with other licensing situations. I thought it might have been an exec or studio head, but I wasn't positive about it.  I pretty much agree with everything you're saying here though.
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Megazver posted:You should watch the trailer: Okay that's funny as hell.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Okay that's funny as hell. There's also periodic messages you get while cleaning the various things that are reports about said item, and there's a bunch of bits that are [REDACTED] including what some of the gunk you're cleaning is. PWS is a very silly game and the 40k DLC might be my favorite of the DLC packs they've released. The FF7 and Tomb Raider dlcs are pretty fun too.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:04
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Let’s send Ulilillia to be our journalistic correspondent
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In theory i could go, i only live like six hours away. On the other hand it's Minot and Minot somehow manages to suck more than Bismarck does.
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In different news, another MtG artist has been caught loving around, not with AI at least, but old school plagiarism https://twitter.com/HeraldsHorn/status/1773364138095374635 Edit: Here's an article detailing all of the components discovered as plagiarized. As of posting, the only thing missing is where the axes in the art come from. The axes which are just one axe, but cloned and rotated and is why it looks so weird for one of the characters. https://commandersherald.com/trouble-in-pairs-accused-of-plagiarizing-cyberpunk-novel-cover/ Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Mar 28, 2024 23:48
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Whoopsie doodle!
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gtrmp posted:The CEO said very explicitly that they were doing something new because they wanted to, not because their relationship with Wizards/D&D soured. Yeah, and that's him doing PR spin on his speech: quote:I also want to thank @Wizards_DnD and specifically the DnD team for giving us carte blanche. I’m really sorry to hear so many of you were let go. It’s a sad thing to realize that of the people who were in the original meeting room, there’s almost nobody left. I hope you all end up well. That isn't so much an implication as it is a statement. 'Hey, thanks Wizards, sorry to hear you all got fired. Anyway, about how publisher greed ruins studios...'
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The Bee posted:I'd say it's crazy that the Blood Angels don't even get faction rules of their own, but considering no codex-compliant Marines do anymore the ship for complaining about that's kinda sailed. I think you're confusing the Blood Angels (who I'm pretty sure do get faction rules) with the Bloody Magpies/Blood Ravens. But if they'd written a codex they might have had to answer which chapter they were a successor to...
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whydirt posted:Let’s send Ulilillia to be our journalistic correspondent loving Christ I haven't thought about that dude in... Literal decades?
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Ravus Ursus posted:loving Christ I haven't thought about that dude in... Literal decades? Godspeed, you Sonic! Hedgehog.
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Leperflesh posted:I don't think games workshop adjusts its product or marketing based on what its licensed games are doing, at least not in circa 2014 under tom kirby, but I can see how it'd potentially involve some legal work and like... it'd actually be good for the company if it did spend some effort on aligning its tabletop products with its licensing ventures in some way. I would certainly agree that GW might not do it right. What you get in return for doing it wrong, particularly these days, is lovely games that will not make you any money! Serious publishers don’t wanna work with companies that don’t think about their licenses, although shovelware companies don’t mind.
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Mr.Misfit posted:According to some numbers though, DnD didn't really get to convert those numbers into kept players and considering how they killed off BG3 DLC/Expansions and BG4 despite the absurd success the game had just shows how bad these companies are with looking at their customer base and divergent commercial trends. There is still the problem with DnD that people think they need a good experienced dungeon master. And new players may be reluctant to be the dungeon master if their only experience is a videogame. Maybe even worse if they've watched one of the professional voice actors series. Of course you don't. Some of the great DMs started playing and DMing as 12 year olds. People can learn the game together. But that doesn't overcome that problem that nobody wants to be in the hot seat. Heck, some people play for years and are still afraid to DM. So even if you have the ideal situation of 5 people who know each other, have compatible schedules, and all want to play the same kind of game it still might not happen because nobody feels competent to take the referee role. It's a serious barrier to entry. e: So a game without the DM problem might be better at converting computer game players to source game players. Of course other games have their own barriers to entry. Facebook Aunt fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Or just make a game that people actually want to DM. Common criticism of 5e is that it's basically unfinished and makes the DM do half the work of the designers as well as everything else. And I'd imagine you wouldn't want to work with a company that's just fired literally everyone who worked with you before, because there's infinite things that can and usually do go wrong with a continued partnership when your partner can no longer be trusted to act sensible, sane or reliable. Especially when they have the corporate raider disease. Imagine having to throw out months to years of work because they decided to redo their entire setting or some poo poo.
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Facebook Aunt posted:There is still the problem with DnD that people think they need a good experienced dungeon master. And new players may be reluctant to be the dungeon master if their only experience is a videogame. Maybe even worse if they've watched one of the professional voice actors series. Amusingly that's not even the main problem. The main problem seems to be that the game they get when buying 5E isn't the game you play in BG3, which is mostly different from BG1/2, because there you got the effing Player's Handbook in Miniature Form as the manual and with 5E fighters begin at "this is boring" and "why can't my druid wildshape into something cool" etc.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Or just make a game that people actually want to DM. Common criticism of 5e is that it's basically unfinished and makes the DM do half the work of the designers as well as everything else. Yeah. Last year I decided I wanted to play pathfinder not DnD, but couldn't find a pathfinder game. So I started a pathfinder table at a local community center game night. I had played a total of 20 hours of pathfinder before becoming a GM. The pathfinder Beginner Box acts as a tutorial level for both the players and GM. Everything you need to play to level 2 is there including maps and tokens, with all the rules you need to take those characters to level 4. Pretty easy even with no pathfinder experience. I haven't tried it but I've heard the DnD starter set is not so useful.  A module, a mini rulebook, a set of dice, and a set of character sheets. Everything you need to start, as long as you are happy with theatre of the mind.   A module, mini players guide and mini GM guide, a set of multi-color dice (so you can tell a confused player "no that's the d8, the d10 is the green one", a set of character sheets (which also have a helpful dice guide on them telling you the d10 is the green one), a laminated set of quick reference cards that tell you what you can do on a turn and what the effects of common conditions like grabbed do, a big double sided map, and 108 cardboard player and monster tokens. (Some of the monster tokens are not used in the adventure, they are there to help new GMs make their own adventures.) Somehow the pathfinder box costs twice as much but still seems like a better value.
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Hasbro Stock Falls as Sales Sink, and the Toy Maker Warns of More Declines Aheadquote:Hasbro (HAS) shares tumbled over 6% in early trading Tuesday as the toy giant reported its revenue plunged and warned of slowing demand amid difficult economic conditions. I would say they are doomed, and someone's going to end up buying WotC within 5 years, Who will it be? Disney? Amazon? Apple? Warner Brothers? None of them will know what to do with it, and burn it or let it decay worse than Hasbro has. My guess is Disney. Worse case would be Apple who just want "content". At least with Disney we might get a Dungeons and Dragons ride to go on. And then a movie based on the ride. And then a cartoon based on the movie based on the ride. And the kids will get home. No wonder Larian didn't want anything to do with them. The'll be dead before they would finish Baldurs Gate 4. And then cancelled before completion. Comstar fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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neonchameleon posted:I think you're confusing the Blood Angels (who I'm pretty sure do get faction rules) with the Bloody Magpies/Blood Ravens. But if they'd written a codex they might have had to answer which chapter they were a successor to... Yeah, I meant the Blood Ravens there. It's legitimately shocking they never went "you like these guys? Play 'em on the table!"
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Besides we're almost positive the blood ravens are thousands sons stock, right?
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I don't see Larian's decision as oracular or suspicious. If Larian sticks with its own IP, D&D's quadratic wizards aren't around to make good higher level play harder to develop (i.e. facilitating downstream content that can re-use some assets and tools). Critically, they also become the IP licensor rather than the licensee for media rights. Licensing dollars were a life preserver for Cyberpunk 2020 when it was still trash garbage. The Witcher, Cyberpunk, and Fallout all jumped to The Other Screen.
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Comstar posted:I would say they are doomed, and someone's going to end up buying WotC within 5 years, Who will it be? Disney? Amazon? Apple? Warner Brothers? None of them will know what to do with it, and burn it or let it decay worse than Hasbro has. My guess would be some private equity firm no one's ever heard of. But at the same point, I cannot imagine a PE firm looking at WotC and saying "Oh yeah, they're totally undervalued and leaving money on the table." FWIW: Hasbro is down -33.5% in the last 5 years, while PEJ is up 7.6%, VIMAX is up 55.5%, and the S&P500 at large is up 85.5%. According to some random website it's one of the 25 worst performers, along companies like Boeing and Warner Bros Discovery. As ever, lol.
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Kurieg posted:Besides we're almost positive the blood ravens are thousands sons stock, right? There's a good case for Word Bearers rather than Thousand Sons
My Doylist take is that they were drawing on both. And that GW would never officially put out anything saying "yes they are this chapter" because it will disappoint some people. So they deliberately scattered clues to two traitor legions.
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If I remember something else from recently, GW made like 460m pounds, which google tells me is about $580m USD. Perhaps D&D 6E needs a miniatures line?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yeah. Last year I decided I wanted to play pathfinder not DnD, but couldn't find a pathfinder game. So I started a pathfinder table at a local community center game night. I had played a total of 20 hours of pathfinder before becoming a GM. The pathfinder Beginner Box acts as a tutorial level for both the players and GM. Everything you need to play to level 2 is there including maps and tokens, with all the rules you need to take those characters to level 4. Pretty easy even with no pathfinder experience. The 5E starter set has been updated twice with new adventures that improve on the onboarding process. The latter adventures aren't as good as the Lost Mine of Phandelver. I just completed the PF2E beginner box - which is fine, and where it really does a disservice is with the pregens. There's no real or even casual link between the pregens and the adventure that engages the players. (Like really, all the weird shrines on the first level and none of them are the cleric pregen's faith?). Additionally, there are magic weapons that none of the pregens use. Additionally, the pregens are kind of trash. How do you make a cleric with no ranged attack and ask a new player to enjoy the game?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Somehow the pathfinder box costs twice as much but still seems like a better value. Having each die type in a different color should be the rule for any game on the market with dice in the box. If you're an RPG gamehaver who's about to teach, the ideal situation is to have many different colors and styles of each die type. Players with any kind of color vision deficiency can pick the dice they themselves can most easily differentiate.
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Nessus posted:If I remember something else from recently, GW made like 460m pounds, which google tells me is about $580m USD. I think they already tried this -- every hobby and gaming store I've been in in recent memory has piles of 5E-branded minis.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I think they already tried this -- every hobby and gaming store I've been in in recent memory has piles of 5E-branded minis. They do have a minis line. The quality is terrible, which is probably why I never see anyone using them.
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people had STRONG opinions before dnd started pretending that miniatures are optional also the frameworks line was and still is too expensive. 50 bucks for 7 kobolds? and they don't even LOOK that fresh?? edit: the nulzers line is also not very good, but it is cheap enough to justify an impulse purchase at the checkout line Ominous Jazz fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Magnetic North posted:My guess would be some private equity firm no one's ever heard of. But at the same point, I cannot imagine a PE firm looking at WotC and saying "Oh yeah, they're totally undervalued and leaving money on the table." Hasbro has a lot going against it. Star Wars and Marvel movies either don't exist, or aren't moving toys like they used to. Nerf doesn't bring in the numbers it once did. People got sick of Transformers movies, and all their other movie projects have been bombs. They bought Power Rangers, but didn't really know what to do with it. They bought eOne for $4 billion, put them in charge of many of their media projects. Then reversed course and sold off most of eOne for much less than they spent on it. Disney is probably waiting for the stock price to crater some more, and buy it cheap.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Or just make a game that people actually want to DM. Common criticism of 5e is that it's basically unfinished and makes the DM do half the work of the designers as well as everything else. This. I had absolutely zero fear of dropping a new DM into Pathfinder 1e, for example, because everything was there to be able to plug and play. They just needed to come up with some concepts and sketch a map, the rest can be plugged in from flipping through the monster manual and picking a few things that look fun and on theme. Other games that actually took some design space for making GMing easy or unnecessary are vastly better. Magnetic North posted:My guess would be some private equity firm no one's ever heard of. But at the same point, I cannot imagine a PE firm looking at WotC and saying "Oh yeah, they're totally undervalued and leaving money on the table." Maybe we'll get something unexpectedly hilarious, like Topps (the baseball card company) owning the Shadowrun and Battletech rights. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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The Bee posted:Yeah, I meant the Blood Ravens there. It's legitimately shocking they never went "you like these guys? Play 'em on the table!" They never discouraged that, one of the Space Marines codexes that was infamously clearly an Ultramarines codex they shoved other chapters into at the last minute had create-a-chapter rules with combinations clearly designed to evoke certain chapters that there weren't dedicated codexes for, and the Blood Ravens were one of the example chapters with art and all. Comstar posted:No wonder Larian didn't want anything to do with them. The'll be dead before they would finish Baldurs Gate 4. And then cancelled before completion. Also yeah, this. Either they're gonna gently caress around with the license at every step, gonna die before the game comes out and probably pull it, or likely both. Also kinda lol if Disney buys them, can't wait to see how they manage to gently caress up Transformers. And probably somehow also My Little Pony.
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