It was recently announced that Cynthia Williams be stepping down as the President of Wizards of the Coast. We look at what this means for the future of D&D.
“Williams held the position for over two years and was involved in some of the company’s biggest highs and lows, with her tenure seeing the release of the D&D film Honor Among Thieves and the blockbuster video game Baldur’s Gate 3, as well as ushering in a wave of fan backlash following the OGL scandal.”
They had little to nothing to do with BG3. The development process of a movie, including approving of a screenplay, takes longer than two years, leaving her responsible for…
Oh. Yeah.
The reason I abandoned the company. Or at least one of the avalanche of reasons.
She had more of a hand in Magic the Gathering’s recent push to make as most product as possible, as well as the incredibly awful Magic 25th anniversary celebration idea of $1000 packs of proxies.
Welp. Since Hasbro overall seems intent on running its properties into the ground, I have little doubt the next one will continue the cycle of enshittification. I’d love to be wrong, but I doubt it.
While the set is decent are you happy with 4 separate set symbols in one release? How do you feel about play boxes being worse than set boxes but more expensive?
And those powers keep on creepin. They are finally scaling it back a bit, but there’s a reason the only cards that aren’t on the reserve list (or three kingdoms) above $30 were released in the past two years.
How do you feel about play boxes being worse than set boxes but more expensive?
I didn’t know that. Seems like a bizarre choice, but I don’t know that it affects my enjoyment of the game. I understand why people would be pissed about that.
And those powers keep on creepin.
That’s been a problem for decades and yes, it’s bad game design (and not the only bad game design going on with MTG by a long shot).
I’m running an outlaw deck in Arena right now and I haven’t had this much fun playing MTG since I built a mech deck after the Kamigawa release and insisted on putting on the Pacific Rim theme when I first played it.
Was thinking exactly this. Both films and video games - especially one the size of BG3 - take far longer than a couple of years to come to fruition which means the only thing she had a hand in was the OGL and every other small-to-medium controvery I’ve only really heard about through One Shot Questers’ round up videos. Burn the witch.
“Williams held the position for over two years and was involved in some of the company’s biggest highs and lows, with her tenure seeing the release of the D&D film Honor Among Thieves and the blockbuster video game Baldur’s Gate 3, as well as ushering in a wave of fan backlash following the OGL scandal.”
They had little to nothing to do with BG3. The development process of a movie, including approving of a screenplay, takes longer than two years, leaving her responsible for…
Oh. Yeah.
The reason I abandoned the company. Or at least one of the avalanche of reasons.
She had more of a hand in Magic the Gathering’s recent push to make as most product as possible, as well as the incredibly awful Magic 25th anniversary celebration idea of $1000 packs of proxies.
She sucked, and whoever comes next will be worse.
It was Magic 30th btw, YuGiOh is the one doing their 25th
Was she the one that hired the Pinkertons?
Dunno if it was like her specifically, but yeah she was in charge during that fiasco as well, and at the very least approved of it.
She will probably just be replaced by some other corporate ghoul forced by Hasbro to do anything to raise profits. It’s where every company is going.
Welp. Since Hasbro overall seems intent on running its properties into the ground, I have little doubt the next one will continue the cycle of enshittification. I’d love to be wrong, but I doubt it.
I mean, Outlaws of Thunder Junction is actually pretty cool…
But in general… yeah.
While the set is decent are you happy with 4 separate set symbols in one release? How do you feel about play boxes being worse than set boxes but more expensive?
And those powers keep on creepin. They are finally scaling it back a bit, but there’s a reason the only cards that aren’t on the reserve list (or three kingdoms) above $30 were released in the past two years.
I don’t care.
I didn’t know that. Seems like a bizarre choice, but I don’t know that it affects my enjoyment of the game. I understand why people would be pissed about that.
That’s been a problem for decades and yes, it’s bad game design (and not the only bad game design going on with MTG by a long shot).
I’m running an outlaw deck in Arena right now and I haven’t had this much fun playing MTG since I built a mech deck after the Kamigawa release and insisted on putting on the Pacific Rim theme when I first played it.
Was thinking exactly this. Both films and video games - especially one the size of BG3 - take far longer than a couple of years to come to fruition which means the only thing she had a hand in was the OGL and every other small-to-medium controvery I’ve only really heard about through One Shot Questers’ round up videos. Burn the witch.