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Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs

half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For the likely large overlap this audience might have with dnd, it didn’t make 100mil a year so it gets to eat shit. It doesn’t help that the video game license isn’t counted in that total. Other Hasbro brands do make 100mil a year.

I thought magic was one. It is surprising to see layoffs there.

Anyway, of course a corporation does evil shit. The only moral is the line going up.

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Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
MtG made over a billion dollars. From what I can see WotC, products/services/licenses, make up over 3 billion of Hasbro’s 5.something billion revenue.

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- half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, card crack is real. They’ve been whaling and getting kids into gambling since the 90s. Don’t know why lay offs there. Line go up just a little more probably.
  
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  - Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s not that. It’s that the fewer people they have to pay the more money they get to keep. It’s incredibly short sighted and self destructive. But they don’t care at this point.
    
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    heyoni@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That or they’re planning to lean on generative ai Produce content
    
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  - Diotima@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, my partner really likes the art but we're both aware that MtG was just the real world precursor to the current micro-transaction culture.
    
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  - DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    MTG used to have 2 or 3 releases a year. Enough to keep things fresh, but not an instance amount.
    
    When I was working in a Game Store in the Early 2020’s, there as more than one release a week, and a major release about once a month. They set the milking machine to maximum.
    
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