this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
72 points (97.4% liked)

Games

16791 readers
570 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
72
How the success of Baldur's Gate 3 and Monopoly Go are driving Hasbro's "all in" digital strategy (www.gamesindustry.biz)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

They probably should have thought longer about the success of Baldur's Gate 3 before burning their bridge with Larian.

It wasn't their IP that made it succeed, it was the quality of the developer. D&D as a brand is worthless if they just sell it to the highest bidder and don't give a damn about quality.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

On the bright side I would much rather see a Divinity Original Sin 3 than a Baldur's Gate 4 from Larian. Now they are free to do their own thing again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They said that their next game will be a brand new IP!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I hope it's a SciFi adventure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Tbf Divinity: Original Sin 2 did not come anywhere near BG3 levels of popularity. The difference between those can really only be attributed to the value of brand recognition.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I really don't think Baldur's gate 3 and whatever the fuck Monopoly go is are the same kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that they think it's part of the same strategy is why they fail. They take a cursory look at both, see numbers go up, and think that all they have to do is push for common element X to succeed.

Gross oversimplification of business strategy and how products are built are why corporations trip over their own dicks over and over again. I wish they would just teach that in business school.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Business school isn't about learning to make money, it's about indoctrinating idiots that already have too much money

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Huh? TIL Monopoly Go exists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently it’s super successful. Has made $3 billion within a year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wtf? Who even plays monopoly? Is this some wild money laundering scheme?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's only the game Monopoly in that it shares the same name and uses a Monopoly board... It's a completely different game, and it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

and it sucks

So there's another thing they share

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

It's ridiculously popular. I have a half dozen coworkers who are obsessed with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

It seems incredibly dumb. Like playing slots

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m sure we can expect the same quality as that Drizzt game that came out a couple years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

You mean the new Dark Alliance game? I prefer the old 2004 one anyway.