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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:20:37 JST Artemis

   So...did Hasbro really not realize that D&D players are not casual consumers? That they have opinions about what they get served up? And that they spend hundreds, sometimes *thousands* of hours playing these games and become deeply, personally invested in them?

   It feels like it didn't occur to them that D&D players (the older ones of whom had already seen D&D trade hands before Hasbro, and may have mixed feelings about those events) would be keeping tabs on them and all things D&D.

   #DnD #WotC

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     Flash Mob Of One (flashmobofone@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:20:36 JST Flash Mob Of One

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     @artemis I can only assume that people making business decisions at Hasbro simply aren't involved in the gaming community.

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     Flash Mob Of One (flashmobofone@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:28:41 JST Flash Mob Of One

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     @artemis And if there's one community you don't want to piss off, it's old gamers, haha.

     We feel a very strong sense of ownership over D&D because we've been playing it since we were kids and these are, quite literally, our dreams.

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:28:42 JST Artemis

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     • Flash Mob Of One

     @FlashMobOfOne
     Yeah... I'm beginning to wonder if they understand the difference between, say, a D&D player and a Monopoly player.

     That feels like a really weird for a game company to have, but it's becoming pretty standard for businesses across the board to be run by execs who don't understand the industry they are in.

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     Flash Mob Of One (flashmobofone@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 06:31:23 JST Flash Mob Of One

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     • αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

     @axx @artemis The D&D / tabletop gaming community.

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     αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎ (axx@mstdn.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 06:31:24 JST αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

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     • Flash Mob Of One

     @FlashMobOfOne @artemis involved in the what? Is that like a private club on the east cost with a gold course?

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     Flash Mob Of One (flashmobofone@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 08:28:48 JST Flash Mob Of One

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     • αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

     @axx @artemis No worries. I just thought you hadn't read the whole thread. No big deal.

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     αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎ (axx@mstdn.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 08:28:49 JST αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

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     • Flash Mob Of One

     @FlashMobOfOne @artemis I know, I was mocking the imagined reaction of an exec, who has no concept of such a thing, sorry if it was not obvious :)