Hasbro Sackings

[dmwarmock 1761xp 0]

Isn’t this a regular occurrence at this company. Seems to happen as each edition of D&D matures.

[tankkommanderParticipant 6421xp 0]

They seem ready to go to print on the new edition so an opportune time to cut overheads.

The big bet for Hasbro/WoTC is on the VTT and ongoing payments from customers. They are moving to a ‘pay to play’ model and if they don’t get the majority of folks to move to 6E then they will have to be savage with the next round of cuts.

[grantinvanman 2180xp 1]

These are indeed heady days to be any CEO – make your average employee’s wage by ~2 weeks into any average year; utterly out of touch with the people line of the balance sheets; 800? 1500? peons gone to keep those bonuses flowing? Why not. It makes all the sense in the world. Corpspeak is the new truth.

I was genuinely surprised when, before the End Times of Covid, that Hasbro didn’t buy GW when it was dirt cheap. Imagine all the chaos that would have caused!

Personally, I started with D&D with a white box of early small books many, many years ago. GW was at least a decade later, for me. Hasbro, to my mind, is just another CEO run corporate face. They have Hasbro stores at Downtown Disney. They plug both new and nostalgia, and take advantage of any and all crossover products to absolute perfection.

At least Lego is still private. I take solace in my own memories of space Lego and that they haven’t gone the route of IPO for gross profit.

Also, screw Hasbro.

[hobbyhubParticipant 4169xp 0]

Found this YouTube vid to be enlightening on this topic.

He also goes into the VTT, as he has seen it and talked to the lead designer.

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 0]

YT and ‘enlightening’ are contradictions in terms, they censor like they’re getting paid for it.

Oh, wait – they are…….

[hobbyhubParticipant 4169xp 0]

@wolfie65 – interesting opinion for someone on OTT/BoW – which is a company using YouTube for its free vid content, and has a corporate overlord that has other subsidiaries that produce product in the space that OTT/BoW comments on and reviews in.

[sundancer 42973xp 0]

Oh come on lads. Behave please. You’re both right technically (which is the best kind of) still you can learn and be enlightened by videos on YT. Because YT needs the interaction and any video sparking discussion is interaction. Simple as that. And OTT Crew is always very open about stuff when its from business daddy (it even says so in bold letters at the end of articles).

Plus we’re all adults um grown ups um old enough to know: take everything with a grain of salt! Especially when it’s a “paid promotion” for a Kickstarter or some upcoming product from company XYZ (even if that is not part of business daddy)

[onlyonepinman 18060xp 1]

@sundancer I have heard if some guy on YouTube, he’s supposed to be enlightened.  I’m yet to see it myself but I have it on good authority that he is definitely enlightened

[onlyonepinman 18060xp 1]

YouTube is definitely censoring people.  However I do not believe that it is censoring D&D videos, even videos that bad mouth it.  If that were true Dungeons and Discourse wouldn’t exist or be a success.

So yes, you can find videos on YouTube covering a range of opinions from people who love it (Take20, Dungeon Dudes being the two that I follow) people who have a general dislike of it so don’t talk about it (Seth Skorkowski) and people who make a living trash talking it (Dungeons and Discourse).  It’s worth following a range of opinions if you want to get a good picture and make up your own mind.  I personally dislike both D&D the game and the way WotC operates as a corporation, but I still watch pro-D&D channels because the enthusiasm of the presenters for the game and hobby is both infectious and inspiring and a lot of the advice and tips can be applied to any RPG.  I definitely don’t begrudge them the happiness D&D brings them, but it will be a cold day in hell before I give WotC another penny of my hard earned cash.

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 0]

TheyTube are even censoring pet, travel and DIY videos……

[sundancer 42973xp 0]

TheyTube are even censoring pet, travel and DIY videos……

Yes but those happen because their algorithm is shite and flagging everything at some point. There is barely any actual people doing that work.

[blinky465 17028xp 0]

Something seems to have changed in just the last few weeks across all “socials”. Everything is now heavily and aggressively advert-driven. Like, to the point of being almost unusable. 45 seconds into an 8 minute Youtube video and there are 30 second non-skippable adverts. It’s dreadful. Same with video shorts on Facepage. The whole “social” side (Youtube, Twitter and Facebook) seems to have gone to shit – but noticeably worse just in the last few weeks.

Which is why I’m hoping the forum chatter will return and at least we’ll have somewhere to gather and talk nerd about painting and pushing little plastic people around on a tabletop!

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 0]

See, that is exactly the problem with the ever increasing monopolization – and attendant censorship, Karenism and restrictions on the internet. More power in fewer hands means repression and far fewer options for the peasants (us).

The younger onces among you may not believe this, but cyberland used to be a Wild West-type free for all (notice the use of the words ‘free’ and ‘all’……) until about the late 00s/early 10s, at which point more and more ‘moderation’ (read: censorship. thought police) started to creep in and that has been increasing at an ever more rapid rate since.

There used to be TONS of forums like this one, most of them rather small, some of them just as active – or more so – than this one and only very few of them were controlled by/affiliated with any ‘big name’ companies or publishers. TheyTube ceased to be a ‘platform’ when it sold out to Google after only a year and a half as an independent.

They have all but disappeared – along with most independent book stores, bike stores, game stores and a lot of other small brick-and-mortar real life meat space businesses, and today, if Mark Zuckerborg, Susan Wojcicky or the CEOs at Noamd Investements (formerly known as Games Workshop) don’t ike what you’re saying online, you ain’t gonna be allowed to say it…..

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 0]

Without going into too much deatil, anti-social media of all types are mind control, primarily focused on women, and they are also an excellent way to further atomize society.

Divide and conquer.

[wolfie65Participant 1238xp 0]

People wrote the algorithms and they knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

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