World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Mist
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That's because it kinda sucks.
Can't blame people for speaking the truth.
I don't understand who Shadowlands was supposed to appeal to. It wasn't particularly good for casual, core, or hardcore players. I don't understand the target audience.
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Mist
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The problem is that it is very effective when done consistently. WotC started advertising MTG and D&D with a bunch of hipster fake-nerds and streaming influencers and other such people who actually bathe daily, instead of their core audience who were allergic to girls, manners, and soap, and was able to dramatically transform and expand the reach of their product.
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Chris
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Mist
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The fact that the business unit for what was considered 2 niche hobbies 10 years ago is now so profitable that investors want it to be spun off from Hasbro, because it is absolutely crushing the profits of the rest of Hasbro combined.
WSJ News Exclusive | Dungeons & Dragons Gets a Bigger Role at Hasbro
Toy maker Hasbro is reorganizing to capitalize on a pandemic-fueled boom in old-school tabletop games, creating a separate division around the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering.
www.wsj.com
WSJ News Exclusive | Hasbro Activist Begins Proxy Fight, Urges Wizards Unit Spinoff
Alta Fox Capital Management has nominated five directors to the toy company’s board, saying its stock has been trailing the broader market.
www.wsj.com
Hasbro Taps Wizards of the Coast Division Chief Chris Cocks as CEO
The incoming toy company chief and former Microsoft executive will serve as permanent replacement after Brian Goldner died in October.
www.wsj.com
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Mist is right, the perception is huge and the advertising is successful. Even watching like Big Bang with Penny quoting DnD shit is big to reforming the image, people like the content but if the perception is you are a total loser if you engage in it it will fail for a huge segment of the market.
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Fucker
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He's someone who still thinks "high end raiding" is something that is aspirational rather than a source of ridicule.
Chris
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Is that not because the traditional playerbase is now grown up and buying all the alternate art shit?The fact that the business unit for what was considered 2 niche hobbies 10 years ago is now so profitable that investors want it to be spun off from Hasbro, because it is absolutely crushing the profits of the rest of Hasbro combined.
WSJ News Exclusive | Dungeons & Dragons Gets a Bigger Role at Hasbro
Toy maker Hasbro is reorganizing to capitalize on a pandemic-fueled boom in old-school tabletop games, creating a separate division around the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering.
WSJ News Exclusive | Hasbro Activist Begins Proxy Fight, Urges Wizards Unit Spinoff
Alta Fox Capital Management has nominated five directors to the toy company’s board, saying its stock has been trailing the broader market.
Hasbro Taps Wizards of the Coast Division Chief Chris Cocks as CEO
The incoming toy company chief and former Microsoft executive will serve as permanent replacement after Brian Goldner died in October.
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Mist
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Seen her in other interviews Blizzard has recently done re: Dragonflight. Is that girl's entire job looking cute while setting up Zoom meetings?
Did Blizzard not learn their fucking lesson? Or the lesson from Riot a few years back? 10 years from now when she doesn't get promoted to vice president of marketing she's going to have like 600 pages of documents about how she was harassed and discriminated against.
"Don't stick your dick in crazy and definitely don't put them on the payroll" should be the new industry motto.
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Ossoi
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Not super up on it but I think his logic is that he's lived in or adjacent to poverty for most of his life so basically has no "use" for money. As for teeth, why are Americans so obsessed with teeth?
Kuro
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Because it's our easiest class marker. If you're poor, or were raised poor, you probably have shit teeth because you couldn't afford dental care and were eating poor people food, which is cheap, soft, and packed with sugar.
Or you're a Meth-head.
Or you're a Meth-head.
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