Microsoft would have to buy hasbro in it’s entirety because wotc is the only piece worth anything, they’d never drop it. Other than that, disgustingly plausible. Could imagine microsoft buying hasbro just for wotc and shutting everything else down
KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 5 days ago
Here’s how it’s gonna go down:
- Hasbro sells Wizards of the Coast to Microsoft
- Microsoft forces Obsidian to make BG4 a. Sidenote: Blizzard will take over MtG mobile
- Microsoft forces Obsidian to imbue BG4 with AI generated slop throughout and make it a live service game somehow
- BG4 flops hard
- Microsoft shuts down Obsidian
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
twilightwolf90@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I wish that happened… Because it would be karma. You should check the employment history of hasbro’s execs. Chris Cocks? Ex-microsoft. Before him? Cynthia Williams? Ex-msft.
And whatever you do, do not read this interview unless you want to be super pissed. theverge.com/…/hasbro-toys-games-magic-exodus-ai-…
mursejoy@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
This is hilarious. I doubt Microsoft buys anymore IP at this point. Seems like they are failing hard but who knows they make the craziest decisions.
Either way it’ll end in layoffs.
oyo@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Even if everything they did from now on was wildly successful there would be layoffs.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
depressingly plausible. I’ve long wondered if microslop was hoarding studios, or just gobbling up IP…
mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Also. Somehow… Loot boxes. After a call from EA.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 days ago
All this after they pack on debt and extract all the money from it.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
God, comparing the cast of characters from outer worlds 1 (didn’t touch 2 so I won’t judge) to BG3, that would just be cruel to make obsidian follow up bg3. Lambs to the slaughter.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You could insert so many different companies they’ve acquired into that… so sad.