Suffering and success.

  • half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    For the likely large overlap this audience might have with dnd, it didn’t make 100mil a year so it gets to eat shit. It doesn’t help that the video game license isn’t counted in that total. Other Hasbro brands do make 100mil a year.

    I thought magic was one. It is surprising to see layoffs there.

    Anyway, of course a corporation does evil shit. The only moral is the line going up.

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      MtG made over a billion dollars. From what I can see WotC, products/services/licenses, make up over 3 billion of Hasbro’s 5.something billion revenue.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, card crack is real. They’ve been whaling and getting kids into gambling since the 90s. Don’t know why lay offs there. Line go up just a little more probably.

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          9 months ago

          It’s not that. It’s that the fewer people they have to pay the more money they get to keep. It’s incredibly short sighted and self destructive. But they don’t care at this point.

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            9 months ago

            That or they’re planning to lean on generative ai to produce content

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          9 months ago

          Yeah, my partner really likes the art but we’re both aware that MtG was just the real world precursor to the current micro-transaction culture.