Hasbro Layoffs in D&D and MTG
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Clearly. sales were down because there wasn’t enough diversity and inclusion.
An autistic chick.
No, really.
I hate the fact that no matter how retarded an idea we might come up with to mock them, they'll respond with "hey, there's some merit to that."
They're like 12 year olds. Even when told directly it's stupid, and why, they won't comprehend it because of their new found stupidity. Most people outgrow it, and others become politicians and CEOs.
I have literal toddlers that act the same way.
"If you do that it's going to hurt."
*clear contemplation of what I've just said*
"No really. You're going to hurt yourself."
*further contemplation followed by YOLO and crying*
"I told you."
I have a literal 12 year old. Suddenly I understand the dads in all those coming of age movies. I look at my son and see an idiot with potential.
Toddlers will stick tacks in their mouth because of the shininess. 12 year olds eat Takis and say it can't be the reason they have heartburn.
It's been completely impossible to parody communists for like 15-20 years at this point.
Why do you think the last major parody movies were 20 years ago?
At least a autist makes sense given the audience unlike all the other retarded crap shoehorned in, still retarded though.
Autists at least do things that have a sensible reason behind them.
Its very puzzling.. D&D has historically been played by autistic people for multiple decades. They were the ones being made fun of the most. Lack of "autistic" characters clearly wasnt a problem.
You don't get it. Before all that the company itself WASN'T TELLING YOU HOW STUNNING AND BRAVE HAVING AN AMBIGUOUSLY COLORED CHICK WAS WHO IS ALSO AUTISTIC YOU BIGOT!
and make it lame!
Mtg deserves to die. I love the game, but it's gone 150% woke and become trash.
LOTR? Better make aragorn black.
Also all the "just proxy" people, because paying for shit doesn't work when you're a communist and broke.
Don't forget, they now have New Doctor Who cards too.
I checked out from new stuff a long time ago. I only heard about the LOTR stuff here I think.
Paying for shit doesn't work when the company is unwilling to actually sell you the product you want. I'm not going to fault anyone for proxying when the alternative is buying 200 packs to probably find the Mythic Rare they're looking for.
Buy singles. Done.
Proxying is an excuse for faggots.
"You're a faggot unless you're willing pay extra for something with artificial scarcity in order to play a game."
Sounds like something a faggot would say.
"theft is cool" says the communist retard
Yes, hobbys cost money. Don't be a little bitch. You're part of the cancer killing the game. Get over your entitlement.
Piracy isn't theft. Neither is proxying.
Games can't be owned.
Intellectual property is not real. Free yourself.
Okay commie.
Lul. Pathetic mate. Property that cannot be protected personally is backed by government coercion.
Only totalitarians think you can own information.
I don't play Magic, in large part because I don't like their economic model (the woke shit just made it easier not to get into it once I had money.)
And I can support that. If you don't like something, you shouldn't consooom it at all, and pirating it is the worst of both worlds. I haven't bought new stuff lately because I won't support wotc and their bs.
For RPGs I recommend Ascendant. Based superhero system.
Completely agree. Something that appeals to real fans
Eric July crushing the legacy comic book industry is a great example.
But an overall increase in card value, which is why draft buyers like yourself suddenly became an endangered species.
You may be all into draft, but if you are, and you're intellectually honest, you know that many people in draft are just there to grab some rares and play a couple matches. Which is why people hate rare redrafting.
I'm not taking away from your point, but you can't totally put the homos aside because they are just less competent and promote anti-competence.
Cube is the way to go for drafters. Stop supporting the Mind Rot.
This is the way.
For those unaware, cube drafting is the absolute most fun you can have playing Magic.
As the only person I know who enjoys deckbuilding but has friends who will play. I just build decks tailored to each other and proxy a new set of five every couple months.
We rotate through them, play some poker style tournaments and use the pot for payout, snacks, and the next batch of cards.
It's a good system. And everyone can give feedback on what cards to keep and which ones to bring back.
Now I'm one of those old retarded Yugioh players, but I've never understood the mindset of you MTG guys where you must always be buying the new cards. Every year, every new set, you must consume.
Once Konami became gay and the game changed, we all just stopped buying Yugioh cards and played with what we had from that point onward.
But MTG is constantly in a cycle of needing to buy more and more, even for people who never participate in the events (the only place you'd need the current and meta for).
Playing modern competitive Yugioh, the game is basically the Wild West and it’s not for everyone, to the point where Konami had a shareholder call because they’re having trouble getting Master Duel players to buy actual cards
I still just play with my early XYZ and prior era cards I own, and only played Duel Links when it was in that time period. Same with Legacy of the Duelist, where I've still only touched 40% of the game.
So while I can't get involved in official tournaments or any of that, I can still play with my dozen or so decks I can pass around to people (and my friends with their own shoeboxes full).
It still sounds like a "forcing yourself to always be participating in Current Thing" even if its free of money and meta needs.
Which is fine, no hate on that. Its just very foreign to us in the Other Big Card Game sphere where we hated each modern iteration so much every new game has to specify which generation and keep them all separated.
Well, that explains a lot about what's going wrong with Hasbro.
You're telling me the company that just made woke Dr who cards as a cross promotion are in financial trouble, that doesn't make sense! /s
they're not so dumb that they didn't realize AI can do 95% of the work now
That's even cheaper than art theft!
Wayfarer's Bauble: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/statement-on-wayfarers-bauble
Supposedly they're not going to allow AI art in the future.
https://twitter.com/DnDBeyond/status/1687969469170094083
It's kind of funny because they hire a lot of artists, by taking this stance, they actually help choke out competition, because many of the most prominent fantasy artists very frequently work for WotC already. If a company using AI art is able to compete with them, they're stuck because they pay a lot for the art, so being anti-AI not only appeases the anti-AI insecure bad artists on twitter, but it also protects their bottom line.
Hasbro went full into digital with D&D and MTG. This guy on YouTube explains it better than I ever could: Hasbro Admits: The Future of D&D is Digital 10 minute video.
Good.
It had been doing nothing but shit for 6+ years.
Good
I'll just keep playing Dungeons: The Dragoning 40k, thank you very much.
My MTG collection has lost thousands and thousands in value over the past several years as WotC and Hasbro have kamikazed their IPs with wokeness. I used to love MTG but I haven't bought a new product in a decade.
Quick, change all the monster lore to generic proud warrior race and pretend that it’s somehow more nuanced!