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Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know [was: Hasbro Seeks to Sell IP “DND” and Has Had Preliminary Contact with Tencent] (pandaily.com)
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[-] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 10 points 5 months ago

China buying up everything

[-] Hrothgar59@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

This would never have been put up for sale if Hasbro had taken care of it, regardless of who buys the IP from them I doubt they can do worse. Let's says Tencent does buy the IP, they could bury it but where is the profit in that, there is also nothing to divide up and parcel off. Worse case we get what we have now and we all complain about the same things we are complaining about with Hasbro. Whoever buys the IP will want to make money, so let's hope they look at the community concerns and try to course correct the mess that Hasbro has made.

[-] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

I just don't trust tencent. They are to China like Facebook is to America in terms of casting large nets for data gathering. I agree Hasbro should let dnd go to a better care taker, but if it's Tencent I don't know if I'd be able to trust any official dnd software.

Luckily, dnd is well established as a physical medium, so the impact wouldn't be too big, but the principal still stands

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