{"id":823436,"date":"2025-12-09T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6r778qgYGnBCygguneHjNG"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:34:40","slug":"buckle-up-hasbro-spent-over-1-billion-on-games-and-has-plans-for-the-next-100-years-since-baldurs-gate-3-proved-fans-like-a-great-well-executed-dd-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/buckle-up-hasbro-spent-over-1-billion-on-games-and-has-plans-for-the-next-100-years-since-baldurs-gate-3-proved-fans-like-a-great-well-executed-dd-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckle up\u2014Hasbro spent over $1 billion on games and has plans for &#8216;the next 100 years&#8217;, since Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 proved fans &#8216;like a great, well-executed D&amp;D game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Unless you&apos;ve been living under a rock, you&apos;ll know that Baldur&apos;s Gate 3 did well\u2014winning just about every major <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/after-winning-every-major-game-of-the-year-award-in-2023-baldurs-gate-3-is-now-cleaning-up-in-2024-too\/\">Game of the Year award<\/a>, starting industry-wide conversations about the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldurs-gate-3-RPG-standards-swen-vincke-interview\/\">quality of videogames<\/a>, and getting one of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldurs-gate-3-review\/\">our highest-ever review scores<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s also done remarkably well as a licensing deal for Hasbro, which owns Wizards of the Coast, which created Dungeons &#038; Dragons 5th edition\u2014the tabletop rules system Baldur&apos;s Gate 3 is built on top of.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for said company, Larian&apos;s moving onto <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/baldurs-gate\/im-sad-to-see-the-old-gang-go-but-larian-really-doesnt-need-the-baldurs-gate-ip-or-dandd-to-make-another-groundbreaking-rpg\/\">different, if not greener<\/a> pastures\u2014but Dan Ayoub, head of digital product development at Wizards of the Coast, says there&apos;s no plans on stopping the company&apos;s forward march: &#8220;Hasbro is in fact making videogames \u2026 we have a considerable investment in our studio structure; we&apos;ve got over $1 billion in games right now being developed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&apos;s as per a recent interview with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/hasbros-1-billion-bet-on-internal-game-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>. Ayoub continues, arguing that Hasbro&apos;s MO has &#8220;always been about play, it&apos;s always been about entertaining people. And gaming is the predominant form of entertainment for a lot of people, and it&apos;s something that just continues to grow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This does feel like a bit of a strange revelation to have <em>now<\/em>\u2014TTRPGs and RPG games have always shared a lot of DNA, especially considering one essentially came from the other. Baldur&apos;s Gate 3 was hardly the first entry in the franchise, after all, and there are plenty of classics like Neverwinter Nights and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines that have their roots firmly in dice, pen and paper. Heck, Cyberpunk 2077 is spawned from a TTRPG product.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the great things we took from the success of Baldur&apos;s Gate 3 is that people really, really like a great, well-executed D&#038;D game,&#8221; muses Ayoub in the same way you might marvel out-loud that water is wet. Alright, I&apos;m being a little uncharitable there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BG3 is absolutely landmark in its quality, and certainly a far cry from CRPGs of yore which mostly took place in text boxes and crunchy stat sheets\u2014nothing wrong with that, but even the most hardcore of CRPG fans&apos;d likely concede that kind of thing hardly screams &apos;mass appeal&apos;.<\/p>\n<p>Ayoub proceeds to discuss plans for Hasbro&apos;s upcoming GI Joe game, as well as Exodus\u2014an original, mass-effect adjacent IP <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/matthew-mcconaughey-took-the-stage-at-the-game-awards-to-premier-an-rpg-from-ex-bioware-vets-that-sounds-like-a-mass-effect-andromeda-do-over\/\">shown off at The Game Awards<\/a> last year. It&apos;s being made by Wizards of the Coast&apos;s development studio Archetype Entertainment, with BioWare vet James Ohlen at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&apos;re trying to do there is have the tail wag the dog a little bit and have things going the other direction for the company, which would be something new, where we can create a new IP through video games and then take advantage of the size and scale of Hasbro to do other things with it as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Baldur&apos;s Gate 3, Ayoub considers it a &#8220;fantastic example of execution of the brand in an authentic way \u2026 the players came. They loved it and are asking for more. And I think you can see that with other brands as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BGDFMfjSBLK9Dv3goWbGCc\" name=\"baldurs-gate-3-karlach.jpg\" alt=\"Baldur's Gate 3 - Karlach in her starter gear at camp\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/buckle-up-hasbro-spent-over-1-billion-on-games-and-has-plans-for-the-next-100-years-since-baldurs-gate-3-proved-fans-like-a-great-well-executed-dd-game.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Larian Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I wrote <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/baldurs-gate\/im-sad-to-see-the-old-gang-go-but-larian-really-doesnt-need-the-baldurs-gate-ip-or-dandd-to-make-another-groundbreaking-rpg\/\">earlier in the year<\/a>, I find myself a little sceptical about the success of Baldur&apos;s Gate 3 being down to some ephemeral strength of the brand\u2014though being a D&#038;D game certainly helped. Rather, it was a game that took off because of the hard work of the people actually making it. Ayoub&apos;s comments especially hit strangely, considering Hasbro as a company laid off <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/theres-almost-nobody-left-ceo-of-baldurs-gate-3-dev-swen-vincke-says-the-dandd-team-he-initially-worked-with-is-gone-due-to-hasbro-layoffs\/\">most of the original people involved in brokering that deal<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Ayoub promises that &#8220;everything&apos;s going to stay in the oven as long as it needs to, we&apos;re not going to rush anything out \u2026 Videogames are an integral part of Hasbro&apos;s strategy going into the next 100 years.&#8221; Here&apos;s to a century of tie-ins\u2014at the very least, if Wizards of the Coast continue to select talent well for their projects, I&apos;m open to the possibility they could continue to be good.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/baldurs-gate\/buckle-uphasbro-has-spent-over-dollar1-billion-on-games-and-has-plans-for-the-next-100-years-since-baldurs-gate-3-proved-fans-like-a-great-well-executed-dandd-game\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&apos;ve been living under a rock, you&apos;ll know that Baldur&apos;s Gate 3 did well\u2014winning just about every major Game of the Year award, starting industry-wide conversations about the quality of videogames, and getting one of our highest-ever review scores.\u00a0 It&apos;s also done remarkably well as a licensing deal for Hasbro, which owns Wizards of the Coast, which created Dungeons &#038; Dragons 5th edition\u2014the tabletop rules system Baldur&apos;s Gate 3 is built on top of. Unfortunately for said company, Larian&apos;s moving onto different, if not greener pastures\u2014but Dan Ayoub, head of digital product development at Wizards of the Coast, says there&apos;s no plans on stopping the company&apos;s forward march: &#8220;Hasbro is in fact making videogames \u2026 we have a considerable investment in our studio structure;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/buckle-up-hasbro-spent-over-1-billion-on-games-and-has-plans-for-the-next-100-years-since-baldurs-gate-3-proved-fans-like-a-great-well-executed-dd-game\/\">Read 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