Reply To: Hasbro Sackings

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> Hasbro probably should never have been allowed to buy up the companies that originally produced DnD and MtG.

And Hasbro bought WotC for the Pokemon CCG, not even D&D or MtG.

The Hasbro purchase of WotC *did* allow many employee to leave the company for their own pursuits. And D&D, pre-WotC, was so mismanaged under TSR, that I think, between TSR and Hasbro, Hasbro is the much lesser evil. Hasbro also kept Heroscape around longer that another company would, and brought back HeroQuest. They tried a few hobby-level games with the Avalon Hill brand name, with House on Betrayal Hill (sp) doing quite well, and licensing Cosmic Encounter to FFG.

Still, with D&D 3.x written by freelancers, it became obvious then that D&D was in precarious circumstances. Personally, I think WotC / Hasbro has done a goodish thing by releasing its third boxed set, keeping the core books around $20 at Amazon, and releasing $20 campaign books.