"Larian has been an incredible partner, and together we are proud of the success of Baldur’s Gate 3. Watch this space for more on some awesome D&D games we are bringing to life through Hasbro’s studios and our network of licensing partners. We have an unbeatable library of toy and game brands and many fantastic partners around the world,” Hasbro’s spokesperson said.
Wait what? I haven’t heard anything about that, did they try to meddle with the mechanics or story or anything?
Well there is that Hasbro fired all of the Wotc team that helped Larian make BG3.
Kind of makes you salty.
But how did Larian dunk on Hasbro specifically? I don’t recall anything either.
i think it was during Swens acceptance speech at the video game awards where he thanked the amazing people at hasbro/wotc who helped to make bg3 a reality only to say how strange/sad it is that almost no one from the first meetings is still at the company in his next sentence.
Studio boss DESTROYS hasbro in FIERY acceptance speech!
SLAMMED Hasbro, UP THE ASS
They recently said they’re done with d&d and won’t be making a fourth baldurs gate
That could be anything since they were genuinely limited by D&D but the other response provided answered my question.
Hasbro has been a shit company for the public of both MTG and D&D for years now. Even before the buyout, WotC was a shitty and greedy company, but Hasbro turned that dial up to 11 afterwards.
Here recently, they had all of those layoffs, but they were also trying to “de-open-source” the D&D 5e license agreement, which put most of the D&D community in a tailspin. The community revolted and fought back, and Hasbro/WotC caved. But, the fact that they tried something so brazen shows just how desperate for money they are.
Hasbro/WotC has also been making some terrible, terrible decisions with MTG, releasing way overpriced “anniversary” packs, messing with the frequency of standard rotations, putting out all of these pop culture media cards (LotR, Dr. Who, Warhammer 40K, etc.) with their Universes Beyond series, digging into older planes like Ravnica and Phyrexia waaaay too often, etc., etc, etc. Not to mention that they are finally at the point of porting older cards and formats from their extremely outdated MTGO client to MTG Arena, but their corporate greed is so great that they expected you to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to shift those card collections over there.
Now, they earn a profit from the biggest series they never created, and wonder why all of those other bad decisions didn’t pay off.