Hasbro/WotC fires people who made profitable Commander products

3 years ago by Danileonis to c/edh

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Stovetop 22 points 3 years ago
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Lemmygizer 6 points 3 years ago

From the video, it was insane that several of the highest grossing sections at WotC were culled. With the excuse that they were cutting underperforming divisions.

Absolute madness.

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littlebluespark 10 points 3 years ago

Video thumbnail "Why is this happening?"

Title of post "Hasbro/WotC..."

Solved it, guys! Wrap it up!

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Treczoks 8 points 3 years ago

Well, they are free now to make profitable products elsewhere.

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lurch 8 points 3 years ago
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Stovetop 4 points 3 years ago
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Shiggles 8 points 3 years ago

I honestly hope this happens. Whether they get mass poached or just form their own new competition, they were clearly good at making products we enjoy.

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wildginger 4 points 3 years ago

They wont. MtG is only the power house it is due to cultural inertia. Better card games die in its shadow because not enough people want to learn an equivalently complex rule system.

And pathfinder, the better dnd, has been there for ages. But not even the community cash grab wotc did shook dnds foundations.

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