My reaction is mostly “...you didn’t have something like this already set up internally?” This seems like it’d be a pretty obvious thing to create and maintain for testing purposes, ya know?

I mean, you’re being snarky about it, which is fair, but lets acknowledge that one of the most important parts of the adaptation process is recognizing what stories would be better suited to adaptation and what stories aren’t.

According to Bloomberg, Wizards of the Coast axed an “internal project code-named Jabberwocky,” as well as four other unannounced titles that would’ve used the D&D world.

I think its mostly just a blip, honestly.

Yeah, I’m pretty leery about de-aging and CGI-Face-Masking actors and such, I think its a real unethical thing to do a lot of the time, just recast the part if you’ve gotta...

Except he’s going all-in on the Metaverse crap that isn’t working and everyone knows it, sandbagging the parts of the company that actually make a profit.

I think its more accurate to say that it’s not about Musk only.

To be fair to the quoted review, I think its meant to be tongue-in-cheek, taking a jab at real-world policing instead of being actual criticism of the game.

The man’s also 90. Even the sharpest people alive at that age are still going to be feeling it at that point...

“Do you ever wonder why Spielberg wanted nothing to do with this???” one response read. “Could it have anything to do with [Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy’s] desire to destroy every male character that either George or he created? That woman needs help.”

I mean, his script shoehorned in a romance arc for Poe and Rey, two characters that first met in the final moments of “The Last Jedi”, that was powered by the seductive act of “Negging”, I don’t think Disney needed to watch “Book of Henry” to Nope right out of that shit.

Honestly, it makes sense, on both counts. Whatever you think of WW1984, the biggest issue with both Rogue Squadron and WW3 is that the IP holders are in a, shall we say, transitionary period. So much of the DC films have been a trainwreck, and Star Wars has been hobbled theatrically ever since Episode IX landed with a…

Here’s one article that actually read the BoA report instead of just regurgitating the headline, and found some serious issues with the methodology: https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2022/11/should-you-be-worried-about-the-bank-of-america-stock-forecast-for-hasbro/

You mean, the report that was focused on how terrible it was that WotC wasn’t catering to the secondary market, didn’t realize that search results for “Pokemon” wouldn’t be constrained to just the card game, and in a long report on MTG didn’t say a single word about Arena?

You don’t need to make customers pay money to be your beta testers for that. You... do betas. Focus groups. Shit that every single other game developer does on a regular basis in order to get fresh feedback from potential players.

If only they’d had revenue from a previous title that probably brought in revenue in the 9, maybe even 10 digits all-told, that they could use to hire a proper QA department instead of offloading that work onto paying customers.

...I’m just amazed that the Hollywood Sign survived the Faro Plague so intact.

The only benefit I see to consumers is that it allows for funding of games that aren’t able to secure proper funding from investors or past sales.

Its exploitative by pressuring customers to buy into an incomplete game for fear of not knowing what their friends or the news sites are talking about with it.

......................okay, on that point, I’ll admit to being a complete fucking idiot >_<.