Post #3642249

2026-06-29 21:14 UTC

Here’s how it’s gonna go down: Hasbro sells Wizards of the Coast to Microsoft Microsoft uses the new IP from WoC and forces Obsidian to make BG4 Sidenote: Blizzard will take over MtG mobile Microsoft forces Obsidian to imbue BG4 with AI generated slop throughout and make it a live service game somehow BG4 flops hard Microsoft shuts down Obsidian

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@TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 03:48

You could insert so many different companies they’ve acquired into that… so sad.

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@mursejoy@lemmy.zip 2026-06-30 04:42

This is hilarious. I doubt Microsoft buys anymore IP at this point. Seems like they are failing hard but who knows they make the craziest decisions. Either way it’ll end in layoffs.

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@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2026-06-29 22:44

depressingly plausible. I’ve long wondered if microslop was hoarding studios, or just gobbling up IP….

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@thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 00:01

All this after they pack on debt and extract all the money from it.

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@twilightwolf90@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 02:44

I wish that happened… Because it would be karma. You should check the employment history of hasbro’s execs. Chris Cocks? Ex-microsoft. Before him? Cynthia Williams? Ex-msft. And whatever you do, do not read this interview unless you want to be super pissed. https://www.theverge.com/podcast/890703/hasbro-toys-games-magic-exodus-ai-tariffs

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@BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 14:22

Microsoft would have to buy hasbro in it’s entirety because wotc is the only piece worth anything, they’d never drop it. Other than that, disgustingly plausible. Could imagine microsoft buying hasbro just for wotc and shutting everything else down

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@mechoman444@lemmy.world 2026-07-01 02:08

Also. Somehow… Loot boxes. After a call from EA.

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@TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2026-07-01 03:04

God, comparing the cast of characters from outer worlds 1 (didn’t touch 2 so I won’t judge) to BG3, that would just be cruel to make obsidian follow up bg3. Lambs to the slaughter.

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