If you don't think they are going to use this model for dnd, you're kidding yourself. You are not immune to propaganda.

@craigjones7343

3 ай бұрын

Oh he knows. He has been predicting it for a couple years now

Wow that's depressing to know that this game and games like it make so much money through predatory physiological tricks rather than really engaging game play. :(

@yarnevk

3 ай бұрын

Casinos are actually more honest tapping the lizard brain because they do let some win money rather than just spend money. Apparently if you only spend money and cannot win money it is somehow not gambling!

Thanks for all this information. My brain is still hurting thinking about people enjoying this game.

Note that these mobile companies spend a huge amount of their budget on user acquisition - not marketing, pure purchasing of users. ~25% of that revenue was probably spent on it. They spent hundreds of millions. This is how these f2p games have worked for a very long time - going back to Facebook games. Once you can extract more revenue from a user than you pay to get them, you open the money spigot and go to the moon.

@DaveBoy

3 ай бұрын

It's also how Google search ads work, and Steam "featured products", and everything else... The developers and publishers might make a hit but the middle-men ALWAYS win and get their cut, no matter what. Depressing.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin

This feels like a PVP slot machine

When you advertise constantly on Tik Tok and some adult websites seems you do very well.

@yarnevk

3 ай бұрын

I watched this video and youtube inserted an ad for it as well as made a click add under the video for it, so that makes him an unsponsored WOTC shill now!

Makes Candy Crush look like Chess.

Looks about as fun as playing Monopoly the board game, that is, just slightly more fun than putting bamboo sticks under your fingernails.

The Ad for this video was Monopoly GO!

I can’t wait until Go Monopoly comes out. Wonder what that would look like.

This is exactly why I stopped playing mobile games.

Well. Need to start saving so I can afford all the rolls I need to make on DnDBeyond for my DND characters . . .

No matter if TTRPG fans like it or not, the shift to focus on digital (licensing) seem to have been the correct one for Hasbro's financial income.

It feels like the same vicarious sense of “accomplishment” as the A.I. Tech Bros get from extruding their visual sausage meat.

Okay... but what about their costs, both current and projected? Honestly, this seems more like a mirage of progress than anything. Hasbro really hurt themselves and strengthened their competition with blunder after blunder. Until they fix that, they will continue to struggle.

idle hero or something like that, we had that

D&D with press of a button... Do you mean idle champions? It has been around for quite some time!

Dopamine now!

30 years old concept for dnd. progress quest, fully automated dungeon crawl. not even a button. you left if running on your pc.

It feels good to know that Hasbro makes money enough to survive and thrive. I wouldn't play it I think, but I'm happy for those who do (since they seem to like it). I'll sitck to D&D since that is the game I love and enjoy.

Hey steven. I heard a rumor we crashed the WOTC reddit/servers again with complaints over the Portugal thing and the AI thing? Did this happen?

Me: 🤮 Hasbro: 🤑

And by licensing out the IP Hasbro doesn't have to take any risk with their own money.

This is why Hasbro, and Wizards, are abandoning tabletop for vidya and NO ONE has a plan to fill the void that comes when Wizards pulls the pillar propping up that medium.

Monopoly Go keeps appearing on my Samsung Galaxy phone. Every time I delete it and then do a system update, it reappears. It's like a bad case of herpes.. it won't go away.

In the best case scenario Hasbro from this 2B gets 130M. This story reminds me how people was over hyping Nintendo's revenue from Pokemon GO. Of course in case with Hasbro IP ownership are simple, but they only get regular licensing fee.

@woland7565

3 ай бұрын

Ferreira said Scopely has spent under a quarter of that-meaning less than $500 million - on marketing and user acquisition.

I am happy for fans of Monopoly, and glad they've found success. I am also glad I am not that kind of fan of Monopoly, sounds absolutely like something I would want to avoid.

The fact that you're surprised by this game is a good sign for you, as it means you're not exposed to the standard mobile crap. Worked 5 years in the mobile game industry, and every (upper management) decision was based on how to brainfuck the "players" into expending more while providing the thinnest slice of playability possible with loaded dice. Gamers making games they wouldn't want to play.

It's depressing for sure, but if it's subsidising better games then I guess that's a net plus.

@DaveBoy

3 ай бұрын

I wish this were true but the reality is this just subsidizes the next attempt to get 3 billion, if it "helps" any other "worthy" product (all things that the MBAs running Hasbro don't believe in) it's just a happy accident.

@yarnevk

3 ай бұрын

​@@DaveBoyD&D Go for sure is next

This is sadly not new, the VG Community has had to wrestle with these practices for a while now, these are predatory tactics used to target what they consider “whales” big spenders with compulsion disorders or gambling addictions. The Jimquisition has a long history of videos dealing and documenting these trends and predatory tactics

My favorite kind of breaking news, the Stephen ones! 😊

Up next... G.I. Go.

well the Professor DM says is a great game, he is a regular gamer of 'monopoly go'

why doe sMike so Baldur's? so wierd? lol

Yeah we don't need to worry about #Hasbro anymore, just the complete collapse of human civilization.

Stephen, we all want to know! Please do the research. How much of that 2 billion does Hasbro get? Please find out and tell us. thanks.-Toby

Sadly we are heading to doom.

Oh wow, that conclusion about D&D is so depressing and likely to occur.

Slot machines in action, v.2024

That's so vapid 😂

This also speaks to the stupidity of trying to turn WotC into a game based on the mobile model their CEO is so acquainted with. You can slap any IP on these things and if they capture lightning in a bottle, then they capture lightning in a bottle. These mobile game users are their own distinct audience, there's no intelligent reason to try to convert another paying audience to quit the product they like and become mobile game users. You just target mobile game users with your mobile games, and target your other customers with the products they like.

Something illegal has to be happening here.

is this a kind of a "game wording"

Gambling wins again. Preying on those with addiction problems, which is apparently a whole bunch of people. Scummy.

So this is NOT Monopoly.

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Well that app seems mind numbingly repetitive....

This is why gaming is going to heck. People spending big bucks on this mobile app jr casino garbage. I guess this is just how things are and I'm just the old man yelling at a cloud.

the peopel that play this game VOTE...and we wonder why this country is screwed :(

can't argue with the games success but all my brain sees is nonsense and i won't go near it - ever.

Who the hell is playing it? That's so weird lol

Monopoly Go is made by a company called Scopely, which is owned by the Saudi government. So it's funding human rights violations.

Jeez... people are stupid.