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@richardvasquez1666
15.09.2024That's what they get for focusing primarily on adult collectors. With QC issues and raising prices has forced some collectors out of the hobby while other collectors are cherry picking the characters they really want.
Ricardo Lembo
20.11.2023Good, let it sink.
Climbing That Mountain
15.11.2023Yes, as stated a year ago, and again in January, WoTC and Hasbro will be gone soon. The movie was always going to bomb, but WoTC thought they would be the next Marvel Cinema Universe. Now theyre stuck with a Fugazi VTT that was only there to sell that there was a market for the films
Edgar Garcia
15.11.2023If Hasbro had stuck to G.I. Joe, Wizards to Magic and TSR to D&D everything would be FINE… Corporate takeovers are cancers and Hasbro's uncertainty is proof in the pudding…
Friendly Xerrol
11.11.2023I just bought a dining table and I haven't even finished Baldur's Gate 3, there is no value in digital d&d products.
Caustic
07.11.2023great to see pdm on here, always appreciate his analysis on these things.
Roger Martin
07.11.2023What is the name of non profit DM for libraries?
White Fox
07.11.2023I don’t always have time to listen to your podcast/livestream. Thanks for taking the time to clip out important parts of your show for us.
Michael Schmidt
07.11.2023For once I don't totally agree. Toys for kids are not only a tablet and phone. Just look at LEGO. They are still going strong.
Hasbro has however dropped the ball in their toy devision. They decided to market their new action figures to adult collectors. Which they then cannot manage to get out to the shelves in stores.
I am a father to two boys (aged 9 and 11) and I am proud to say that they still play with action figures. But the good figures are getting harder and harder to get hold of.
But if parents let the kids just play with digital devices, sure the kids will only choose that. The boys have a mutual friend, who has lost the ability to be creative and just play – that's a real shame.
cheezeofages
07.11.2023I also did loosey goosey math with the number of OGL incident related canceled subs when they were revealed. Going "Even though MSRP isn't profits, how many dollars of that will this total to over a year if these people are totally gone but would have bought everything including tickets to the movie?" and it totaled to the majority of their annual growth. Of course that doesn't mean their annual growth takes that hit (again MSRP isn't profits) but that's enough to make it clear that the subs probably made them do a old timey southern belle fainting with a cry of "Oh my word, I do believe I have come down with a case of the vapors!" And with how big a chunk of profits we know WotC is for Hasbro, the whole thing probably raised blood pressures dangerously.
Ed Siefker
07.11.2023Everyone hates recent D&D releases, and no one is excited about OneD&D. At this rate, Larian will be able to buy out the D&D IP for Baldurs Gate IV instead of licensing it.
Drunkard Farnham
07.11.2023Kids only having digital toys is completely wrong. My money goes to creative toys that have innovation. I loved action figures when I was a kid because it was the only toy I could get. I just bought my son a super cool vacuum marble toy from Fatbrain toys. The toys today are soo much cooler than they used to be. I think they are failing the toys because their supply chain is ancient and they haven't innovated.
Matthew Gordon
07.11.2023Hasbro might want to start paying actual attention to the community that potentially buys their crap.
Steve Mirko
07.11.2023So price goes up $5 for something but they have to raise the price by $20? How does that make sense. Assuming they're keeping the same profit margin, why wouldnt they just have to increase the price $5 to make up for the $5 increased cost? Legit question, not busting balls I am genuinely curious.
gcell10
07.11.2023Stopped giving a shit about modern D&D when 4th dropped, am annoyed that I can’t find a Studio 86 Snarl though
Jake Lynch
06.11.2023After having left Wizards for the 4e fiasco, I was just about coming back. I bought a 5e PHB last year but then they did this OGL stunt and I am even more Paizo than ever. Wizards is dying because of corporate #Infinite_Growth. They could have had nice little cash cow that brought in modest millions every year, but they had to have more and now they have lost the goodwill of the community.
David Wasilewski
06.11.2023Physical toys are dying? Tell that to Games Workshop.
Bryito
06.11.2023With what Hasbro has been trying to do with the OGL and OneD&D that’s why I’m switching to PF2e Remaster. Let’s all be honest we all know their new VTT is going to be a micro transaction pit and it wouldn’t surprise me if there are loot boxes and NFT’s somehow too. As long as Hasbro owns WOTC I refuse to pay for any D&D products the simple fact the official name for New addition of D&D is 5e should tell everyone everything that they need to know about the situation and it wouldn’t be surprising to me if they’re going to find a way to even affect the old 5e that’s currently out.
InfoStorm
06.11.2023"I'm in a non-profit origination that provides DM's." — got a link to that program?
TonyRobetson
06.11.2023toys r us didn't go under because people weren't buying toys but because of massive debt.
you guys make big claims and don't back it up at all. kids don't play with toys these days. says who? it'd be pretty easy to get sales numbers to back that claim.
dnd beyond didnt grow that much because of cancelled subs. any evidence at all to back that up? or could it be that they had massive growth the previous years/quarters, so it's slow now?
hasbro's collector toys not doing well. hasn't their haslab crowdfunding program done well? seems like they keep getting funded. overall sales are down but that segment could be doing well
if youre gonna do an analysis of their quarterly report and make click-bait videos at least do some basic googling. like just looking up what the average debt to capitalization ration is, long term debt is 40 to 60 percent, which by your numbers is what hasbro has.
b1g m00n
06.11.2023actually toys are us was a victim of a leveraged buyout. moviebob has a good video on the subject
Steel Mongoose
06.11.2023All I know is that Kyle Brink wants me out of the hobby. I’m finding genius in the indie RPG market, while WotC/Hasbro continues to insult its customer base.
Scrapper Lock
06.11.2023Kids not playing with toys – I have seen this with my nephews (10 and 14). The older one played with tons of toys until he hit 7 or so. But then he switched to laptops and tablets, and the younger one has been all laptops and tablets the whole way through. I bought them cool toys like Hess trucks (the dang things are expensive) and they just collected dust. Now they want stuff like Steam gift cards or Roblox gift cards for Christmas. Toys? What are those?
Gigantor
06.11.2023I feel like Hasbro should make WotC it's own company and then let Hasbro fail and restructure it. A lot of the D&D beyond stuff is sticky products like banking does. Big difference is banks offer them for free and WotC wants to charge for every part.
Vance HillHouse
06.11.2023Budlight rejected their consumers, Victoria Secrets went with plus-sized dogos, Disney canceling their own brands with wokeness, WOTC openGL fiasco, all losing millions from using their big brains.
Dungeon Craft
05.11.2023Based.
l33tninja1
05.11.2023Honostly humanity itself is failing because of bad leaders, death cults leading social media and school teachers drilling it into kids heads that humans are bad. A lack of parenting and the abiltiy to even become a parent also is all adding up tk the real possibilty that ill witness the end of the human race.
TableTop Gaming with Wolfphototech
05.11.2023The video starts so quickly as Stephen starts talking.
That one can tap left fast enough to turn him into porky pig.
Vince Snetterton
05.11.2023It would be wonderful if hasbro goes down, and took micro-wotc with it. But no, what could happen is hasbro spins off the legacy company, and then focuses exclusively on micro-wotc.
Maschinengott
05.11.2023Good riddance, its a plague upon the community. I play OSR so sitting in the peanut gallery it gives me a certian satisfaction to see them struggle and begin the downwards spiral most of us legacy fans saw coming ages ago.
Mathieu
05.11.2023If Hasbro keeps on trying to live solely on the backs of Gen-X collectors, they will keep on sinking. Bring toys back into kids' hands through advertising, through weekly cartoons.
$25+ action figures are not for kids. A million dollar company shouldn't make crownfunding.
JoPanda
05.11.2023We might reach the point soon where Cox throws Williams under the bus to try to grab back previous players ditching their cheap tactics
Don H
05.11.2023Fantastic show, guys! Pretty shocking numbers.
Chad Culotta
05.11.2023My first D&D games were in my school library. It was April 1981, I was 12 (6th grade). I only had the Basic set. Everyone else was playing AD&D. I did not know wtf Mike was talking about when he said his fighter had an 18/53 Strength, lol