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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Dungeons and Dragons Fan] Wizards of the Coast and D&D Team Hit
 By New Round of Layoffs
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:33:59 +0100
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On 10/29/2024 4:47 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:55:52 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:55:49 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Source: https://dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/wizards-of-the-coast-new-layoffs/
>>>
>>> Wizards of the Coast and D&D Team Hit By New Round of Layoffs
>>> October 25, 2024
>>>
>>> Hasbro has just announced a new round of company-wide layoffs that has
>>> reached Wizards of the Coast and the Dungeons & Dragons team. The move
>>> is part of what Hasbro has described as an “operational streamlining”
>>> and is expected to impact roughly 100 employees across the company.
>>>
>> Did they streamline the clusterflock that is D&D 2024 on D&DBeyond?
>> Because wow it's bad. Glitches everywhere.
>>
>> I think they should be hiring, not this.
> 
> Don't be silly. You hire people when you're trying to make a product
> people WANT to buy, not when you're selling something they HAVE to buy
> because you're the default provider.
> 
> <Lily Tomlin mode>
> "We don't care. Watch this. <click> Oops, D&DBeyond just fucked
> itself. We don't care. We don't care. We're Hasbro."
> 
> 
> 
> 

They also might be going all in on using AI to write their stuff. This 
will be fun.