▲ 99 ▼ '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 (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 2 years ago by Hairyblue@kbin.social to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world 15 comments fedilink hide all child comments Suffering and success.
[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social [S] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children) The CEO and upper management at WOTC are the real monsters. Greed is bad. I bet they don't even play D&D. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lzbz@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago (3 children) There was some sort of QnA with the important WOTC people for some DnD influencers not too long ago, where they confirmed they never played and politely declined a room full of experienced DMs that wanted to run a game for them... Don't remembrr what the event was, but I think it was this sumner permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Linuto@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago Yeah that was at GenCon this year. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Entropywins@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago Oh I'm sorry I actually don't like fun so I'll have to decline a game... permalink fedilink source parent [–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Was that back during the OGL scandal? I recall seeing a bunch of interviews then, but that was like 3 scandals ago, so it's hard to keep track. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago Megacorporations are neither Good or Bad, not even Neutral in DND terms. Those are human motivations. They're Shareholder Profit-motivated. Some corps are Lawful Shareholder Profit-motivated, some are Neutral Shareholder Profit-motivated and some are Cahotic Shareholder Profit-motivated. I find it interesting to reframe their actions and motivations this way... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lzbz@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago (3 children) There was some sort of QnA with the important WOTC people for some DnD influencers not too long ago, where they confirmed they never played and politely declined a room full of experienced DMs that wanted to run a game for them... Don't remembrr what the event was, but I think it was this sumner permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Linuto@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago Yeah that was at GenCon this year. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Entropywins@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago Oh I'm sorry I actually don't like fun so I'll have to decline a game... permalink fedilink source parent [–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Was that back during the OGL scandal? I recall seeing a bunch of interviews then, but that was like 3 scandals ago, so it's hard to keep track. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Linuto@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago Yeah that was at GenCon this year. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Entropywins@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago Oh I'm sorry I actually don't like fun so I'll have to decline a game... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Was that back during the OGL scandal? I recall seeing a bunch of interviews then, but that was like 3 scandals ago, so it's hard to keep track. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago Megacorporations are neither Good or Bad, not even Neutral in DND terms. Those are human motivations. They're Shareholder Profit-motivated. Some corps are Lawful Shareholder Profit-motivated, some are Neutral Shareholder Profit-motivated and some are Cahotic Shareholder Profit-motivated. I find it interesting to reframe their actions and motivations this way... permalink fedilink source parent