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[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 80 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Here's how it's gonna go down:

  1. Hasbro sells Wizards of the Coast to Microsoft
  2. Microsoft uses the new IP from WoC and forces Obsidian to make BG4
    • Sidenote: Blizzard will take over MtG mobile
  3. Microsoft forces Obsidian to imbue BG4 with AI generated slop throughout and make it a live service game somehow
  4. BG4 flops hard
  5. Microsoft shuts down Obsidian
[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Microsoft would have to buy hasbro in it's entirety because wotc is the only piece worth anything, they'd never drop it. Other than that, disgustingly plausible. Could imagine microsoft buying hasbro just for wotc and shutting everything else down

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

You could insert so many different companies they’ve acquired into that… so sad.

[–] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 20 hours ago

This is hilarious. I doubt Microsoft buys anymore IP at this point. Seems like they are failing hard but who knows they make the craziest decisions.

Either way it’ll end in layoffs.

[–] twilightwolf90@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

I wish that happened... Because it would be karma. You should check the employment history of hasbro's execs. Chris Cocks? Ex-microsoft. Before him? Cynthia Williams? Ex-msft.

And whatever you do, do not read this interview unless you want to be super pissed. https://www.theverge.com/podcast/890703/hasbro-toys-games-magic-exodus-ai-tariffs

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

depressingly plausible. I've long wondered if microslop was hoarding studios, or just gobbling up IP....

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

All this after they pack on debt and extract all the money from it.