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Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs

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cam_i_am@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You misunderstand. Larian is the company that made the BG3 video game, and they haven’t laid people off.

However it’s a licensed game. Baldur’s Gate and D&D are IPs that are owned by a company called Wizards (previously Wizards of the Coast). And Wizards is owned by Hasbro. Hasbro is forcing layoffs at Wizards.

The people at Wizards, i.e the people who actually make D&D are no doubt passionate wonderful people. But Hasbro (and probably some of the Wizards management) are awful corporate parasites determined to suck every last penny from their properties.

They don’t give a shit how loved a product is, if it’s not making $100M per year then it’s basically worthless to them and they won’t fund it. So layoffs happen.

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TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They laid off a lot of the MtG team as well.

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Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

then it’s basically worthless to them

Cool. Make it independent again.

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- sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No-o-o, because then it may make money for others, think about all the lost profits. Better shut them completely /s
  
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  - burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is sadly a much more likely scenario
    
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