Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have "about 40" video game projects in the works

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Worth noting that BG3 was Larian‘s effort through and through. They took the initiative and asked for permission from Bioware to make another Baldur‘s Gate game and as far as I know that wasn‘t even the first time they asked. So finally after they got permission, they also had to compensate Bioware and WotC generously for the use of their IPs. It‘s kind of a rights nightmare where Larian took several big risks while WotC could just lean back and watch. And of course after BG3’s massive success, Hasbro think they struck gold when their own official DnD game is the complete opposite of BG3 in terms of monetization, popularity and critical acclaim.

  So, everything considered we shouldn‘t expect greatness from this. Honestly I would be surprised if we ever actually get official announcements with working titles from half of these games before they get shut down early in production and I would be more surprised to see even a quarter of them come to life.

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  • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I actually expect them to take the Warhammer approach. Saturate the market with so many titles that no matter what, the brand name will be on the homepage of everyone. Doesn’t matter if half those titles suck.

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    • turddle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would be a miracle if they even come close to that kind of success rate. While half those warhammer games do kinda suck. That other half, well, doesn’t haha.

      20 good DnD games would be fantastic but I’m not even sure they know how to make one with the way they seem to be going at it (not counting BG3 as theirs, that was all Larian).

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• ItsAFake@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are any of them good? I have 40 projects going ATM and they’re all shit.

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would like to remind people that this is corpo speak. This is likely counting mobile shovelware monopoly, my little pony, trivial pursuit, clue, etc stuff. Plus there’s Transformers and we don’t know if they count only their own games or do they count something like the Fortnite crossover as a video game project? Hell I can name 4 active magic the gathering video games off the top of my head. It’s entirely possible they count certain magic expansions as their own thing if they’re complex enough (MH3, Assassin’s Creed, Final Fantasy)

  My point is that this doesn’t say anything of substance, don’t read it as a reaction to anything in particular

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reeks of executives that think BG3 is easily reproducible. $5 says they overinvested in games and every single one of these will underpreform.

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• retrieval4558@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Throw enough shit at the wall and see what sticks I guess

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• rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another Shandalar would be so sick. I don’t have faith that they’ll go for it though. It will be more half-baked, undersupported garbage.

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