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Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sinking ship or not, word was that Wizards’ cut of BG3 was over $90M. $100M was the entire production cost of Baldur’s Gate 3. If you could fund an entire other massive video game for the cost of what you paid your partner for licensing, I’m sure anyone would be rethinking that deal. At this point, they don’t need the D&D license any more than BioWare needed the Star Wars license after KOTOR.

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for expanding on my point.

    They don’t need WotC as they keep fucking up. Other RPG systems are becoming more and more popular.

    Maybe they can partner with Paizo and make the next Pathfinder game, although I’d feel bad for Owlcat because their games have been great too.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For similar reasons as D&D, I doubt they’d license someone else’s system either, but I could be wrong.

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      • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True, the Divinity games were plenty of fun with their own system

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I agree, but Piazo seems like much better partners. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d let them make the game for no fee, just license out the rules to try to make the system more well known and popular. Pathfinder 2E is the better system without a doubt, but people are used to D&D5e, so having something out there to bring new people in would be huge for them.

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      • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Games Workshop where’s their IP out to almost anyone, and despite being crappy about their mini stuff, they seem rather fair for electronic games.

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    • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m out of the loop, what has wotc been fucking up?

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hasbro pulled a bunch of typical big corp enshitification tactics with their licensing and digital assets over the last couple of years.

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  • lanolinoil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do ~6B a year and clear about a billion, so that’s actually like 10% of their profit which is a lot for a company that big – wow!

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    any more than BioWare needed the Star Wars license after KOTOR.

    Glances at Starfield

    Maybe not your strongest point

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    • Tilgare@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bioware didn’t make Starfield - that was Bethesda. Maybe you were thinking of Anthem? And fair point there.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was talking about how the lack of Star Wars license didn’t stop Mass Effect from being even more successful than KOTOR, yes.

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• trslim@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’ve been moving over to Call of Cthulhu with my tabletop group. I find it far more enjoyable when the players are more careful about dying or worse.

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