Getting Henry Cavill to get on board and after his stellar performance and dedication to The Witcher? Yeah insane not to call it a slam dunk to pick up 40k's most famous fan.

@AngelusNielson

6 ай бұрын

His dedication to the witcher? From what I heard he was trouble behind the scenes. Now I admit I hadn't been following too closely and my long-term memory is bad. But I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.

@XSquidbeatsX

6 ай бұрын

But I think Amazon will ruin it like the lord or the rings show that flopped hard.

@slaapliedje

6 ай бұрын

​@AngelusNielson his 'trouble behind the scenes' was because he is a fan of the original material, and the show runners made it a steaming turd. They hated the original books and were making fun of parts of it.

@Lenriak

6 ай бұрын

@@AngelusNielson The reason he was "trouble" was because the showrunners didn't give a shit about sticking to the source material, even ignoring the creators input and advice for the show. Cavill was literally the only person onset that was a fan of the franchise trying his best to get the show to stick to the books and games. The showrunners didn't like him messing with their political propaganda.

@darthkek1953

6 ай бұрын

He gave Woke rewriters raised eyebrows for butchering the story and characters.

What makes me laugh is about 20 year's ago. GW tried to get hasbro to buy buy them, and Hasbro laughed them out of the board room. 😂

@CyberDagger003

6 ай бұрын

Bullet dodged. Wouldn't want to replace Tom Kirby with an entire board of Tom Kirbies.

Hasbro's problem is, instead of being satisfied with lots of money, they're want to make ALL THE MONEY. So they lost all their money in a failed attempt to make ALL THE MONEY.

@hendrikrasmus

6 ай бұрын

GW also wants to make all the money, they just have a tighter grip on their costumers.

@BW022

6 ай бұрын

@@hendrikrasmus That's how I see it. Hasbro and WotC are businesses and it's fine making money. Companies which really make money are typically those which offer good products or services. WotC make a lot of money off 5e... because it was a good product. My issue with Hasbro/WotC is that they thinks they can use existing customers to fuel a new business model. If you want to move to digital, VTTs, online content, subscriptions, etc. fine. Do that... without trying to cajole existing folks with restrictive OGLs, providing substandard products, etc., etc. and expecting existing customers to buy into your new vision. No, go build your products/digital system and, if it's good, people will move to it by themselves.

@MarioJosifovskiDev

6 ай бұрын

Many of the roots of D&D and reason of success are lost in history, has nothing to do with the current management

@WolforNuva

6 ай бұрын

This is absolutely a GW thing as well, don't let this video make you think otherwise, GW is just as greedy as Hasbro. They're just a bit smarter about how they squeeze their market of their wallets.

@Xplora213

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@MarioJosifovskiDevand yet… those roots and histories are so easy to see, again and again… TTRPGs are a very small cultural touchstone so we know it all. The hobby has ridden high on the creative output of Gygax, Arneson, The other guy, Monte Cook… only a few truly pushed the hobby and all were rejected by pencil pushers in the end. The new owners will meet the same fate.

GW sells a Hobby, not a toy. They are a toy soldiers company that happens to have rules attached, but the primary product is the Hobby. The Warhammer stores are not retail outlets, they are recruiting centres for the Hobby. They have the concept of the Hobby trumpet, and the key to their success is to get as many people as possible into the cone of that trumpet. Those who stay and go deep will eventually lessen their GW spend, but they will always be Hobbyists.

@hibernate44

6 ай бұрын

Ooh someone else watches the painting phase pod

@DanielEbeck

6 ай бұрын

@@hibernate44 I used to work in the Studio. Tom’s an old friend.

@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm

6 ай бұрын

I disagree: GW is primarily an IP. The table top is unimportant next to video games, and once the TV shows and films arrive, irrelevant. I have been a fan since 3rd ed, I know a lot of lore, I play 40K video games and Dark Heresy RPG… never played a game with the figures.

@hibernate44

6 ай бұрын

the games so far have all been small time for 40k. you vastly underestimate the tabletops popularity and profit margins@@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm

@hadeseye2297

6 ай бұрын

@@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm Original WFRP game master here. Don't care about the rest of their stuff. Especially modern, which is woke. Black people in WFRP have bones in their noses as a decoration.

GW knows they are GW. Hasbro thinks they are Microsoft+Mattel.

I am a Warhammer hobbyist. I've been in the hobby for over 20 years now. I have also played D&D and many other games. Be VERY careful when you praise GW for their business practices. Because what every veteran Warhammer hobbyist will tell you is that GW has an AMAZING product, but is owned by a bad company. There are many reasons why GW is doing so well. One of them is that they are very close to having a monopoly in the wargames market. No other business is anywhere near as big as GW in the wargames field. Hasbro is big, but in general has more competition and less of a monopoly. If a valid competitor arises to GW, I promise you they would loose a lot of money. GW is not the company you want to compare to when it comes to "good" business practices to retain customers. You want to know what Hasbro lacks and what GW in general does have ? Quality. Despite everything bad GW does, and their very high prices, you simply cannot deny that the quality of their models is insane. When I look at what Hasbro creates for D&D, like miniatures, terrain, etc. I see an extreme lack of quality. Their products look like cheap, Chinese, knock off toys. You want another example ? Lore. GW doesn't simply sell models, they also sell fantasy worlds that are filled with endless lore. With novels written of it out every month. I can barely tell you a single thing about the D&D world, and I have played D&D, I have played Baldur's gate 3. Hasbro needs to do what Critical Role is doing. Create an exandria. When you have an exandria, you can create endless amount of products of it. Miniatures, games, books, video games, action figures, terrain sets, maps, merch etc. GW has 4 things that attract you and keeps you in it: Quality, versatility, lore, community.

@kmaguire7161

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I have never heard anything good about Games Workshop as a company.

@RollForCombat

6 ай бұрын

You are correct. GW as a company is nothing to write home about, but DAMN, their lore and quality are incredible. And as horrible as GW might be, they still gave out bonuses to all of their employees. I can't tell you of a single American company that has done that in years. So take that for what it's worth.

@an0nycat

6 ай бұрын

Bonus: plus GW is not just a monopolist and number 1 with 40k, but further down the list and number 2 with AoS... 🤔🤔

@alexisglaab2572

6 ай бұрын

@@an0nycat Didn't Battletech overtake AoS for the number 2 spot this year? Or have they switched back by now?

@josepablolunasanchez1283

6 ай бұрын

Battletech is growing. Many 40K players have adopted it.

Unironically I have been having so much fun with WFRP. GW has done some horrible things, but thanks to licensing, Cubicle 7 came out with 3 very very good Warhammer RPG's, each with their own decently varied expansion sets. Been my go to TTRPG for the last year and a half. No surprise GW has been winning this year compared to hasbro.

@AngelusNielson

6 ай бұрын

I don't like WFRP because of how fatal it is. Did they tone that down?

@slaapliedje

6 ай бұрын

I have some of the books to this, would love to play it eventually.

@porkers7792

6 ай бұрын

WFRP 4th edition is pretty survivable if you run human because you get starting fate, which are your death saves. Armor can also critically deflect critical wounds, so being prepared and having high fate + avoiding corruption will ensure your character lasts a whole campaign if you want it to. TBH the lethality is more a 1st or 2nd edition thing imo. Although the system can still kill you. :) @@AngelusNielson

@HeribertoEstolano

6 ай бұрын

@@AngelusNielson I haven't played previous versions of WFRP but if it wasn't a fatal System I wouldn't even care to play It. If I wanted a game where players are immortal demigods I'd be playing Pathfinder.

@ratatatuff

6 ай бұрын

Warhammer FRPG is just plain awesome. Cubicle 7 is doing an amazing job.

Blood for the blood god!

@hellglaser3450

6 ай бұрын

Just picked up a WE combat patrol on sale for $90, score!

@ernesto906

6 ай бұрын

Skulls for the skull throne!

@duttdits

6 ай бұрын

Khorne for the Khorne Flakes!

Rogue Trader is probably a better comparison for BG3 than Age of Sigmar. Doesn't stack up (made by a smaller dev), but it's a great game. Made with love, well written, super cool setting. Really enjoying it.

@StanNotSoSaint

6 ай бұрын

Rogue Trader was made by guys who made Pathfinder CRPG, right?

@OldManYells

6 ай бұрын

@StanNotSoSaint Yup! Owlcat Studios. Always been a fan of their games (I like an overly complicated CRPG), but have always found their stories/writing to be so-so. They really stepped it up in this one, though. Knockout game so far.

@FMD-FullMetalDragon

6 ай бұрын

As good as BG3 is, Owlcat's Rogue Trader is a better computer game.

@timhaldane7588

6 ай бұрын

​@@FMD-FullMetalDragon😂

@duncbot9000

6 ай бұрын

You are correct, if Stephen is comparing WotC and GW, then comparing BG3 and Age of Sigmar isn't right... You need to compare all D&D games that came out this year vs all 40K games that came out... And there's a LOT of 40K games constantly coming out. 40K's got more flavours than Baskin Robins!

FYI, him missing/almost missing his man of steel audution is a bit of an urban legend. He cleared up in an interview that he was raiding in WoW and almost ignored the phone call from his agent that was to tell him he got the part.

GW started as a game company but that is no longer the case. GWs core product now is the universe and setting, and they know this. Now, GW sells ways that you can interact with the setting. Want to read a book about it? Play a game in it? Paint a model from it? Watch a video on it? Play a console game in it? GW will sell it to you. The setting is key now. Hasbro is too focused on final product. Thats not sustainable.

I would like to remind people that despite how fun and entertaining Warhammer is (through games, books, ttrpg's, and the wargame), GW isn't perfect and in fact have been just as awful as Hasbro/WotC in the past and will likely continue to do so in the future. They destroyed fan animation projects across the board and locked them behind their streaming service (and are apparently crunching said animators to reach unrealistic deadlines), AND they're also skimping on a lot of things to do with artwork and lore with their recent game releases. They tried to copyright the words 'space marine' and other basic words in fantasy and sci fi to make so they were the only ones who could use them (they were beaten in court, but those who challenged them apparently went out of business cause the little guy can't compete with corporate money and legal fees), AND they also consistently rush out some of their products to make money fast, while doing nothing to fix supply issues when other people want to buy their products. They might be doing better than Hasbro/WotC, but that doesn't mean they're perfect either.

@Newnodrogbob

6 ай бұрын

Underrated comment. GW is notorious for ineptitude and indifference.

@stuartbaxter-potter8363

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. As a longtime 40k player, I seesaw on how I feel about GW. I'm not blind by any means to criticisms of GW (codexes are terrible and the rules should all be free online), but if I had to pick GW or Hasbro, I'd hold my nose and pick GW right now.

@phueal

6 ай бұрын

In defence of GW on one point: the supply issues aren’t easily resolved and it sounds like it’s something they’re actively trying to fix. Mainly by building an entire second factory. But the way GW’s miniatures are fabricated and the very long lead time to increase production are the main reasons for the supply issues and they’re not something GW can fix in the short term.

@hollow8136

6 ай бұрын

This is an extraordinary case in someone not knowing what knowing what they are talking about. GW is plenty bad, but if you're going to critisize them at least don't do it while being wildly misinformed. First off you can't even copyright a name or word. That is literally impossible, and copyright 101. This show you have no clue what you're talking about. What you mean to say is trademarks which work entirely differently from Copyrights. That situation is more complex than it seems, but if you're making Chapterhouse out to be the "good little guy" in the situation you're just simping for one group of assholes to spite another group of assholes. As for destroying fan animations. No they didn't. The GW policy was just an them making explixit what their policy already was. They didn't actively destroy any projects, it was the community that harrassed fan animators out of the sphere. GW didn't even so much as send a cease and desist. People always bring up TTS but GW has zip to with that, and Alfa was bored of making the series long before the policy stuff happened. As for the supply issues. Yeah that's pretty fair. But everything else seems to be stuff you have 3rd hand knowledge about, but no actual clue about what happened. Don't talk about subject you're not informed about, it just spreads misinfo and ruins the point you're trying to make.

I have often said that the worst thing that Hasbro has done this year is to make GW look good. We mustn't forget that it is not Hasbro who refuses to give credit to their artists, stopping them from furthering their careers. It is not Hasbro who tries to shut down any 3rd party manufacturers of stuff compatable with their games with lawsuit after lawsuit (although, I am sure that was their plan with the OGL). I could go on. But we shouldn't judge a falling angel more harshly than a known devil.

@mikepalmer2219

6 ай бұрын

In short they are both bad. Lol.

@snipedude4953

6 ай бұрын

Hasbro did sic the Pinkerton's on some random dude who was accidently sent the wrong thing. That doesn't help.

@darthkek1953

6 ай бұрын

Hasbro would not go after 3rd party MTG card makers?

@dlaserus

6 ай бұрын

@@snipedude4953 I am not saying that Hasbro is good. I am just saying that gw is still bad.

@dlaserus

6 ай бұрын

@@darthkek1953 There are places that sell proxy cards for Magic, and I have never heard of lawsuit trying to shut them down.

No, dude Hasbro is destroying Hasbro. I'm not giving my money to a corporation like them anymore.

Sadly for Hasbro, they do not own the IP for many of the toys they make. Action figures still has a thriving market. Unfortunately for Hasbro, they signed bad deals with companies like Disney. For example; Hasbro allowed Disney to dictate that the focus of the new Star Wars figures has to be put on new Star Wars characters. Just like in there theme parks. Disney really doesn’t want George Lucas’s characters to steal the thunder from their Star Wars characters. While figures of classic era characters do sell, Hasbro was only allowed to release those in much smaller quantities. A larger number of figures released were of the Disney era characters. Fans don’t like most of the newer characters, so they don’t sell. The Ollie’s store shelves are full of Rey figures. Mandalorian figures sold well during the first two seasons of that show. The third season was not as good, which was right around the same time that the sells for those toys fell off. Disney made the same deal with the Marvel figures. So, Hasbro contractually backed themselves into a corner there too, because MCU films are no longer preforming well. So Hasbro obliged themselves to making figures for failing movie characters, like the Eternals, Black Panther 2 or the Marvels movie, instead of the Marvel comic characters that fans would buy.

Avalon Hill (under Hasbro Gaming) just posted a question on their Twitter account asking what IPs people would want the HeroQuest brand to be crossed over with. 😒 Complete disaster. They're trying to Hasbro-ify the HeroQuest IP now.

@ChrisKCook

6 ай бұрын

Warhammer Fantasy or nothing.

As a collector of both Warhammer and Hasbro figures..Hasbro got greedy, very greedy..Covid helped when the world was at home and they needed something to do..Hasbro over produced and then started raising prices..2019 Hasbro 6 inch figures were around $19.00 and I felt over priced then, then it went up to $24.99 and then to $29.99, then came plastic free boxes so Mint on card buyers were out..can't see it not buying it..then this year figures up to $35.99 and most are repaints, Ross over the holidays blew out the massive stock pile of figures for $4.99 to $5.99..and a year ago these were all going for close to $40.00 bucks..These are Canadian prices..but most of us collectors are now hitting 2nd hand stores and picking up action figures as the Band wagon collectors bailed after Covid ended and we got back to normal life for a fraction of the price...so greed of Hasbro killed their company..just my 2 cents.

Well, speaking personally, I and five of my long time commander playgroup stopped buying magic due to product burnout and switched to 40k. I'm sure we aren't the only ones.

I'm a beyblade collector and I very often see the beyblade section at stores completely wiped out. Hasbro absolutely has a gold mine with Beyblade, though they've been damaging the brand with poor products as well. The general sentiment among all fans is "importing the Japanese versions is better". Imagine letting your product degrade so thoroughly like that.

I have always wondered why WotC hasn't brought back Chainmail and competed with GW. Wizkids already makes a paintable D&D mini line. I would think Wizkids could scale up that production and come out with a more traditional fantasy tabletop wargame that would be an alternative to Age of Sigmar.

@rmkarros

6 ай бұрын

there is a dnd skermish game by wizkids called onslaught

@FMD-FullMetalDragon

6 ай бұрын

I think they did bring back Chainmail. They called it D&D 4e.

@timhaldane7588

6 ай бұрын

It's almost like they should have branded 4th Edition as a spinoff tactical alternative to the core game and continued to support both.

@TheAndrian463

6 ай бұрын

That is what I have wondered about too. Ok back in the AD&D days it was Battlesystem (a seriously flawed mass combat system imho, far too much dice rolling). They could go two ways by making a skirmish or mass combat (one using practical elements of miniatures) game. The biggest hit was the 15mm Ral Partha miniatures for Battlesystem - if they did a line like that again they would not only capture the core D&D players but most likely get gamers using other wargame systems to buy the miniatures.

@mikeolson6384

6 ай бұрын

@@rmkarros onslaught is more like warcry. I was thinking something more in line with the original WFB or Kings of War.

Hasbro is terrible at understanding their customer base, and have no idea what to sell them. They own some hugely popular IP but have no idea what to do with it. They released a campaign book set in Dragonlance, a massively popular and beloved franchise, and completely botched the release. What's the iconic monster that's specific to the Dragonlance setting? The draconian - and even several months after the campaign released you couldn't buy draconian miniatures anywhere. My group was super excited to play in Dragonlance and I had to 3d print some sustitutes because Hasbro didn't think to manufacture any miniatures for their campaign setting's most iconic monster. How can a company that manufactures toys be so inept at tying their releases together? They deserve to go broke for such pure incompetence.

as someone who likes looking at pictures of dragons and reading lore, I'm glad you mentioned this because I'm brand new to this channel, like started watching last week brand new, and I had NO idea what you offered. I usually don't read video descriptions unless there's something I'm specifically looking for like what music a creator used, etc. Not gonna lie dude if you started every video with a short blurb like "You want to play as a dragon, check the video description" i think you'd see some surprising effects because if I hadn't watched this specific video of yours where you briefly mention the book I still would have no idea about it

Incorrect! Hasbro is destroying Hasbro. GW Is just reaping the benefits.

@laughingman7467

6 ай бұрын

There is no lesser evil, just one devil benefiting immensely from the others falling.

They really need to start doing the big 30 minute commercials... I mean TV shows again. Things like GI Joe and Transformers. do the show, make the toys.

I feel like something that helps Warhammer in the Video Game space, is D&D has had like 1 good game in the last 5 years, and Warhammer has had like 10 games some good and some bad, but there has at least been content out there.

Hit it on the nose. If they're not on the social media, they're playing with Lego.

Tbf, GW has its own, deep seeded issues, tho they're not on the same level as WotC/Hasbro.

Hasbro turned their toy division into a system that churns out the cheapest garbage possible. Their high end toy lines are barely equal to the lowest toy quality of 10 years ago. Kids action figures today aren't even fully articulated. How is a kid going to engage their imagination with these toys of you can only move an arm 90 degrees and nothing else? It's their fault they rushed to the bottom of the barrel. That's all before you even discuss how they missed out on so many trends and have nothing to create in a digital market with any self owned toy lines.

I think there are a lot of other reasons Hasbro is having problems that weren't mentioned here.

GW and WotC may both cater to nerds, and they do have some overlap, but their products are vastly different. I would not consider them competitors at all. They don’t target the same market. Henry cavill is a proudly confessed nerd and Warhammer 40k fanatic.

Kids don't have the money to buy the toys. Most of Hasbro's customers are 18-30 year old's buying collectables and putting them in plastic to preserve them. The funny thing is, in 20-30 years, there's going to be a ton of these things still in mint condition and they aren't going to be worth much more that the day they bought them (if not less). Ask any comic collector from the 90's.

GW hasn't always been the "nicest" company but there is one significant difference. They always delivered quality. WotC didn't.

Paizo only created the remaster because Hasbro screwed the OGL. There was no reason to put out a new edition, but they needed to protect themselves and their players. They did the update because they were creating the remaster. Paizo also hired alot of ex-WotC employees back during the fall of DnD 3.5 and the horrible 4th Edition release. Paizo is popular because they care about Pathfinder and their players. Hasbro doesn’t.

I expect the DnD tv becoming even more memory holed in a while since Delicious in the Dungeon will air on Netflix in January. All the "DnD cooking show" searches will be pointing to that instead of the Hasbro thing.

Dead on right about the market for action figures. You and I are basically part of the same generation (I just turned 50 in June) and I guarantee that it's definitely not eight year olds who are clamoring for thirty dollar GI Joe figures based on characters from the 1985 figure lineup, supporting characters from the Sunbow Transformers cartoon, or Marvel Legends characters from the Chris Claremont era of the Uncanny X-Men..

@liljenborg2517

6 ай бұрын

Anyone with 6-10 year-old kids in their lives know that (especially boys) don't want toys and if they have toys they don't play with them, either. When you ask a random 9 or 10 year-old what they want for their birthday or Christmas - they want VIDEO GAMES. They want Fortnite or Minecraft gift cards. They want the latest Pokemon or Zelda games. If they're playing outside, they're playing sports or shooting nerf darts at one another. When I'm perusing the toy shelves at Walmart, I never see kids (like I used to be) on the action figure aisle looking at Transformers or Ninja Turtles. I see guys MY age shopping for toys. This is why you see preschool versions of toy lines (Spidey and His Amazing Friends, Transformers Rescue Bots, Young Jedi Adventures) because 5-year-olds still play with toys.

you're totally right, my kids used to play with legos and playmobil, soccer and biking outside and video games. Now they are getting some interests into warhammer because I do warhammer minis and D&D because I do to since 40+ years :) Hasbro is done for teenagers, still working with younger kids (like dolls) Cards (with few exceptions like pokemon) never interested them. And my magic collection has been sold this weekend ^^

Well said. I like both products, warhammer and dnd. I was always very confused when WoTc refused to release any new classes, they only released the artificer besides the core classes then I discovered Pathfinder and how they had like 20 different classes. I stopped buying dnd books primarily for one reason. I would flip through the pages, See barely any art, and no mechanics. It was all just fluff I would never use in my games anyway.

Watched this painting miniatures, but not GW miniatures. Played my original xbox today purchased 18 years ago. Respect for Cavill. Glad I can be happy for GW for a change!!!

Paizo also sells the PDFs of each book, puts ALL of the rules out for free, and leverages that cycle of releases for another ATM, subscriptions where you get the hard copy and they throw in the PDF for the subscription being revenue they can count on in financial projections. I have Paizo subscriptions, do you?

GW is far different from WotC/Hasbro. Can you name a miniatures wargame from WotC? Painting and building your minis builds a connection to the product that just is not present when you buy a prebuilt. I don't care for GW but I respect them as a Wyrd miniatures / Malifaux player.

My nine year old granddaughter mostly plays with her phone, ipad, gaming computer or Nintendo Switch. She does like Star Wars Legos, but that is it as far as non-digital toys that she plays with.

One makes toys for children, who famously, have no money, the other makes toys for adults, with jobs, who do have money.

Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader that just recently released is a fantastic RPG

More news!!!!! Thank you Stephen ❤

You can really see how Hasbro's problems then being put on WotC, leads to short term, profit-first thinking that is neither sustainable or consumer friendly. They'll ruin both companies this way. Hasbro executives should be in test playrooms figuring out how to get kids to play with toys, not dictating how Magic the Gathering cycles should be released.

An endless flow of player focused books does NOT make a DM happy...Splatbook creep simply causes DM burnout. I'll buy adventure paths for ideas but I strictly limit the scope of the rules. Having no limit on the rules is insane.

I never thought about it like that, I never saw the release patterns of paizo and GW. Now I understand why there’s a consistent flow of money coming from my wallet every couple months haha

There's an excellent reason why Hasbro is called "Hasborg" by a lot of members on BGG - they assimilate other game companies, choke any originality out of them, and then resume selling the 97th iteration of Monopoly (which, by the way, they did not invent, either). I'm not particularly fascinated by why Hasbro or GW does or doesn't make money in a particular year, but any year Hasbro loses money is another year that's better for other game companies, and that's OK, for the most part.

Kids don’t buy toys. Older relatives buy toys as presents cause they don’t know what to give them

... There're dnd tv shows? That's a massive fail on Hasbro's as this is the first time I've heard about it!

On the subject of action figures, I think part of the problem is that they are afraid of trying anything new with action figures.... Just look at the action figure lineup we have now.... Ninja Turtles, WWE, He Man, Superheroes.... And those are just figures... No big play-sets, not much in the way of vehicles..... Part of what made action figures cool in the 80s/90s was the big playsets that could be used as a backdrop for many an adventure... (Lego is doing well because, well they're filling that niche left by the action figure market, as a construction toy they tend to focus on vehicles and buildings, with fun characters that exist to interact with these things....) In the 80s and 90s the toy companies were not terrified of trying out new things....

ok how on earth do you get to the D&D channel??? I feel my soul is been crushed trying to find it. I also at this point feel like I have a wis and int of 3..

Can anyone tell me what company the last image he has represents? The maroon circle with the White Sword with wings.

Funny you mentioned DND TV, cause Warhammer TV is beyond a paywall.

The only products i touch from Hasbro are MTG Arena (only play digital and try to avoid the awful art they put these days in general) the other product was BG3 and this is a license product. In the other hand I need to keep my wallet in check with GW products, Joytoy, minis, book/audiobooks and videogames.

As a DM, it would be nice if they did not waste time on adventure books and instead sold maps in bulk cheap. Character pictures and monster pics cheap. Why do players only have one picture of a minotaur to use as a reference? The Fey could have their own Monster Manual!

It's like cheering for the croc that ate the gator but is still coming for you too.

I will only watch D&D TV to watch Glass Cannon Network on Purple Worm Kill Kill. Still waiting for their episode to drop...

I just did a quick check... of the 1100 employees laid off by Hasbro, it appears that between 20 and 40 of them were WotC employees. That wasn't a difficult bit of data to find.

He loved the Witcher too. I hope they actually fucking listen to him!

I keep seeing toys that are not the best quality is the issue they want $15 and up for a 4 inch action figure.

Darktide has really reawakened my interest in 40K, having been a fan of it back in the 80s when it first came out. GW do seem to like to keep long term fans and customers unlike Hasbro who hate their old customers with a passion.

"Hasbro needs to sell more DnD books and content..." Rewind to six months ago when the entire internet community lost its mind when an exec stated "D&D is under monetized..." 😅😂😂😂

43yr old here. Never played WH and am just barely starting to look into the lore. Had been an ardent D&D and Magic fan. Started 2ed, stopped 4ed for D&D, MTG was 3rd to Kamigawa block. What took me out of D&D was it was, and this is just my opinion, getting cartoony/anime-ish and end of day, classes were just a name, they all seemed similar. Plus, and this was probably just my group, it was nothing but min/max for stats. MTG got streamlined, and again opinion, was geared towards quickest win decks. 1 turn kills etc. Now part of that was the net as people had more access to single cards they could buy vs getting lucky in a pack. Abilities kind of recycled and instead of like 2 mana for a 1/1 with a perk, or maybe just a 2/2, you'd get something insane. Not my personal style. All that said, from time to time I'd read up on both. More so for D&D and again opinion, it's a classic example of go woke go broke. I know, at least last I saw not in the core rules, but what's the point of picking a...."Species" and no dare I say, racial abilities as just an example. Instead of staying with core fan, they courted new "fans" (as businesses should to some extent obviously) but from what I've seen these new fans never liked the old product to begin with. Warhammer from what little I've delved into hasn't seemed to change much over the years in regards to those issues/setting. Probably one of the keys as to why they give bonuses vs termination letters.

It’s outrageously, expensive, but very cool plastic!

All down to Cavill coming out that he was a GW megafan, wanted to do a GW film, Witcher broke The Witcher with off piste writing and promises to give fans a story that will not deviate! Since Cavill "came out" i bet sales started increasing in GW, I'd put money on it that this is the case! People liked Cavill as SUperman, say what you want about the DC universes, Afflick as Batman, everyone liked Cavill as Superman. Games Workshop has Superman and The Witcher as their poster boy.... That is epic!!!!

"Henry Cavill: good-looking, ripped, super charismatic." So your're saying he's the average geek.

I didn't even know d&d TV was a thing. 😂

Both companies hate their player base but only one company hates its own employees.

@febotroilo7225

6 ай бұрын

I am trying to figure out which company you think does not hate its employees?

@nonyabusiness890

6 ай бұрын

@@febotroilo7225 Some companies like their employees but most large publicly traded companies just care about maximizing profits

@an0nycat

6 ай бұрын

@@febotroilo7225 GW gave out bonuses to all of their employees 🤔🤔

Good video. I have no idea how you got into my feed. But i'm glad it did.

@RollForCombat

6 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@an0nycat

6 ай бұрын

two words: GW 😅😅

Quick anecdote. I wanted to watch Faster, Purple Worm, Kill Kill, especially because of Deborah Anne Woll, so I tried searching for it on Prime, then Freevee and then Twitch, and I could not find it. I gave up.

Good video. A smaller company could get a lot of publicity by partnering with activist investors saying they were trying to 'save D&D' - as an American icon. They might not get far, but they would get a HUGE amount of publicity, which would get a company like Games Workshop (hint) an expanded brand value - they might even say back us or else we will launch a competitor in the same space hiring the best people (inc those who you have fired over the years) to do it with proper investment in Art, design and print production - occupying the vacuum Hasbro have left. What is more because GW have high positive cash flow a reverse takeover could be undertaken without a huge debt burden (the Warren Buffet Trick), they could simply rack up the equity holding until capitulation,.

In previous editions of d and d they released alot of player focused content. Class books, magic books, item/treasure books etc basically stuff alot of people would want to buy.

Alta Vista, if I remember correctly, wasn't that one of the original internet search engines? Who remembers Web Crawler?

It's not about being born in the "digital age" affter all 4e D&D was all about the philosophy of Pen and paper games are old and let's make it more like a video game, and yet boardgaming and RPGs have done better (you know not video gaming) Hasbro's issue isn't that kids dont play with action figures but that they have abandoned selling to kids for selling high end collectables to adults, $500 haslab mandalorian razorcrests and such vs making kids that appeal to kids AMD adults instead of trying to milk adult nostalgia anmd relyuing on licenses

Owlcat just released a WH40K video game RPG called Rogue Trader. If it's as good as their previous (pathfinder games) it should be pretty good.

I think Hasbro is doing a good enough job all on their own. Between their mishandling of D&D and MTG and how the fans are feeling about them right now, I'm not sure what GW is doing to them.

WotC sells so many adventure books because they don't distinguish between materials meant for DMs and those for players, they just lump player options into their adventures-like the fey races in Wild Beyond the Witchlight or the spacefaring options in Adventures in Space. It makes it necessary for at least one person in a group to buy the book (unless they buy the individual options on dnd beyond) even if they don't have any intent to run the adventure, and the sale of adventures makes it seem like "DM-focused materials" do well even if people are only buying them for the player options.

I’ve been a warhammer guy for a while now and my buddy just got me into dnd. I was shocked at the lack of product and content. Like where’s all the new subclasses monsters adventures MINIS!!!

40K is an abusive relationship.

I got to Warhammer when i was 11 years old. My mom has bought 2 starters then too. I didn't get to play fb or 40k tabletop, roleplaying which minies i have (100+ skavens, 100+ night goblins, a few troops of high elves and a few troops of dwarves.). But i use them only for dnd, pf2 games ( Still, Warhammer is one of my favourite universes!

Why did Hasbro have a bad year? Star Wars, Marvel Universe, Disney toys.

Genuinely: I am not buying the remastered books from Paizo. Because they just got my money for the now-legacy books at the start of the year. And had a previous track-record of updating existing books with things like Errata. If they keep putting Errata out as a paid-product, I'm not going to keep buying their books.

Yay my 5 models for $60 is at least going to the staff!!!

Same here Steven. Kids play iPads -they have fresh Alienware PCs - and they play Roblox on them - which is for all intents and purposes a mobile game.

Stephen, I always really enjoy your videos. They're entertaining and newsworthy!

Henry Cavill is a level 1 fighter with 20 in every stat.

I don't know the three year edition cycle deserves praise. It might be good business for our nascent cyberpunk dystopia that is the early 21st century, but it's a nightmare for players. A lot of us are die hard hobbyists, but only casual gamers. It quickly becomes impossible to keep up, especially if you don't just play 40k ( all their games are on a cycle, and all those cycles are offset, so you only need to play three of them to be buying new books every year.) I still collect and paint, for use in D&D as much as anything. But I barely play any warhammer anymore because I just can't get enough games in to relearn the rules before they change. For now it's working for them, but it wouldn't surprise me if sooner or later the bubble bursts.

Comparing GW to Hasbro is like apples to oranges. They are not in the same business. Hasbro is massive and relies quite a bit on licensed franchises to make a profit, so it doesn't help when one of their most expensive licenses tanks like Star Wars (a dead brand thanks to Kathleen Kennedy). Hasbro also lost a ton of money trying to become a movie studio over the last decade (because they are a bunch of idiots). GW on the other hand sticks to the one thing they do best: make and sell miniatures.

I feel like GenX would snap up a reissue of all G1 Transformers and Joe figures and vehicles.

Yes I've watched The dungeons & dragons channel. I've seen it on freever and a lot of times I watch it on prime mainly cuz they have a better guide. I think it looks cheap but I enjoy both encounter party and faster purple worm kill kill.

GW mastered the art of pay to win before video games

Call me weird, but when the PF2e remaster books came out and I saw all the day 1 errata for them I was immediately turned off. They were obviously rushed, but I compared those 2 books to the PF2e core rulebook which was in its 4th printing with all subsequent errata included and I bought that instead. It was cheaper, it had more material in it, and it is still 100% compatible with all of the PF2e content out there.

The things you are saying they are doing right is why I stopped playing. I got tired of buying things so often and I couldn't paint fast enough to keep up. I guess it makes money, but it doesn't appeal to me. I do play their video games though so they get points there.

Magic: also publishes too many cards sets, overwhelming players who can’t keep up with the sets and they burn out.

Problem is the player facing stuff WotC does do, generally makes the DM's life a bit harder as it is just power creep. They need to give player facing stuff along with the advice in there to the DM's on how to handle it. Granted those with experience can handle it but for teh new DM's (that they need to get) it is so daunting.

I refused to give my chlildren iphones and ipads...they have the next 60 years of their lives to stare at screens, lego, hot wheels, action figures, play doh, stuffies, board games, got my 13 year old an acustic guitar, she has a laptop though for school and the boy has a nintendo switch....dont give your kids phones parents, 10 year olds and pre-teens dont need phones...no matter how many times they tell you otherwise.

If WOTC had taken a cue from GW about selling minis and rules, 4e would have been a success (for them, not so much players).

@mortichro

6 ай бұрын

Yes they have and its called D&D Onslaught. It has potential but it falls short..

Seems like Transformers is the only Hasbro brand doing...okay-ish but it's collectors-driven. I am wondering on who at WotC thought static clings on dry erase tiles and plastic disks was a good idea to go full tilt on. That's a very niche product.

Storms are still brewing for GW, dont let things fool you. Prices are still getting hiked up beyond reason, getting less options it seems for minis. They are fully loving the "fomo" cash surplus.