• Pronell@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “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.

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      8 months ago

      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.

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      8 months ago

      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.