Can't have anything nice apparently :/
It's Hasbro. This is part of their Blueprint 2.0 strategy to monetize everything.
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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Maybe it's just years of labor organizing, but I'm deeply unsettled by this for some reason. Surrounding the consumers on all sides with crosshairs centered on them gives me a bad vibe.
Welcome to late stage capitalism where air should be monetized at this point. You could make a lot of money paying people to breath and taking away all of the supply. Obviously we failed at something if the air is still free.
The best way to keep the air clean and safe is to privatize it. Air owners will have a financial interest in keeping their air clean and can sue polluters. Meanwhile, government would just ignore (or at most monitor) pollution.
-- Libertarians
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Hasbro is uniquely shitty, and has/had multiple important individuals that are former pinkertons.
I'm still pissed at what they've done to my boy, D&D
We do have Pathfinder and 13th Age, both of which are better than 5e. They don't have the marketing budget though
Pathfinder 2 is sooo much better than DnD, especially if you want to GM any official campaigns/modules/one-shots. Paizo's writing on their adventure paths make it so easy to just jump in and run a game or pilfer encounters and piecemeal a homebrew campaign
Plus, the character creation, ancestries, and classes are so flexible that you can play almost anything you can imagine without having to homebrew anything. You want play as the Rat King from The Nutcracker? Sure. A goblin sapper from Warcraft 2? Easy-peasy. You want to play as C-3PO? No problem. Christ, you can play as the fucking Velveteen Rabbit if you want.
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Corporate doesn't just want a lot of money, they want all of the money.
Also, how easy it has to be to convince an average American that this is a good thing. That they want you to be at the center, because they care about you, or some other horseshit.
Crosshairs on people? Fine. crosshairs are on CEOs? panic.
The original 1965 broadcast version of A Charlie Brown Christmas special, a 20 minute rant against consumerism, had scenes like Snoopy crashing into a Coca-Cola Sign. Because advertisers paid to have their ads built into the show itself.
Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.
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I've seen publishers advertise their other titles within the box, which honestly, not an issue for me. These, however, are crossing a line.
If any of the components have advertising on them I'm removing that game from my library and never touching another game from that publisher, ever. One of my reasons for getting into board gaming was to avoid this shit.
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Hasbro.
This is disgusting.
They have been performing horribly quarter to quarter lately, and so pretty much all of their product lines have had shit like this happen. Nerf has no springs and shoddy plastic, Wizards of the Coast are dropping a ton of middling-popular products from production, even their Marvel line has really taken a hit to quality with bad fabrics, cheap printing, etc. Everything is being cut to the barest minimum to try and claw back their profitability.
... It's stunning they can't seem to connect the dots, really.
It feels like MTG has a crossover/cash grab every other month. It's just too much.
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I hate being advertised to so fucking much.
It's visual and often auditory assault. More people should deface public advertising.
Then you'll love this new product that's guaranteed* to reduce the amount of advertising you're exposed to!
*Warning: may cause blindness, loss of hearing, and inability to leave your room.
But in all seriousness... I hate it, too. It's fucking everywhere.
I just don't anymore.
I don't buy a wire- or mechanical- puzzle I make one. If I want a tile-based game (think scrabble, qwirkle, rummy) I make them with upcycled junk and paint markers.
I don't buy bread or pizza crusts or tortillas, I make them. I can make a month of bready products in an optimized hour of work for 1/30th the price.
I play indie games by inexperienced developers who charge $4.99 because I'd rather try new mechanics even if they fall flat.
I'm currently precipitating copper into an aqueous solution on my stovetop and later I'll try electroplating the copper onto some random thing. Because this is free and fun AS FUCK. Forget going to the arcade or to a pre-packaged event show or movie.
I am just drifting away from everything that's not hand made. Fuck it already.
No shade here but do you also work a full time job? If so shit where do you find the time.
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I need to see a picture of your phone. Could you send me a chalk rubbing?
(Sorry, had to joke) More to the point, how does it take you an hour to make pizza dough, bread and tortillas? Pizza dough on it's own takes 15-20 minutes active time, and then it's a long wait
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I just want to point out... They took a quote from what appears to be a review... Then credit tripadvisor for it rather than the person who made the comment/review on the tripadvisor platform.
Bad citation.
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It's branded right there on the front. It should really be free since it has ads, though!
imo if you pay for something, ads should be illegal lest it's like the company logo
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https://instructions.hasbro.com/en-ca/instruction/the-game-of-life-tripadvisor-edition
This is like saying a LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean set is an ad for Disney.
It's literally just the "tripadvisor edition." It's a legal agreement between both parties to brand the game with tripadvisor stuff. The traditional Game of Life is still out there, without this. There's also a litany of other versions of these special editions of the game. The tripadvisor one does seem a little weird, but it's not any weirder than Game of Life Yokai Watch edition. I didn't know life involved death and ghosts.
~~Like you bought the advertisement knowing it was an advertisement because it says "tripadvisor edition" right there on the fucking box.~~
This is exactly what was ordered, there's absolutely nothing to indicate this is a "TripAdvisor edition".
I don't consider licensed themes like a "LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean" set to be ads, or at least if it is its more like some sort of "mutually beneficial" ad. Those are actually cool or neat or themed in something of interest that has a fan base like a show or movie. Some random logo of a website/service slapped all over is not that.
Interesting, apparently been spammy for years
On the backside of the box, there is microscopic branding for TripAdvisor on one of the cards. There is also a closeup photo of the cars that shows the TripAdvisor logo a couple of times across the board design. These could easily be missed by someone who wasn’t looking for them. The branding should have been more clear and the producer likely did mean to deceive. Always check the reviews before buying and take note of the manufacturer’s specific ID number or code for the product.
I’ve almost entirely stopped purchasing online unless I am familiar with the specific product or I have watched a thorough review of it. If you had the box in your hands, you’d be more likely to spot the branding on the back, and the side faces might have branding too.
There are fringe instances where the outward distinctions between manufactured products are so trivial that you’d really have to be in the know to differentiate between them. The only occurrence that I can think of which I’ve experienced is buying CDs that have the swear words censored vs. uncensored.
I agree that the other commenter’s analogy doesn’t make sense with the packaging/marketing context.
Damn, that's a bad look. I just assumed it was the tripadvisor edition because one existed. It sounds like this is a stealth "Amazon edition" that's different than other retail copies. I wonder what the agreements were that lead to this edition?
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Nothing. Is. Sacred. If we had any form of functional government they wouldn't be stuck 75 years behind on progress and dumb issues like this could be taken care of. The only chance of this happening now is some random gov official doing it as a PR stunt.
Gotta get the kids started on associating themselves with our brand now. Subvert the competition asap.
Remember in that Dethklok show that I can't spell when people went to the live performance of a band that had a less than 10% survival rate for their audience, on a frozen mountain top, to hear a fucking coffee jingle?
We're not far removed from that, people will be lining up to buy fucking tickets for a high budget McRib ad come this Novmeber.
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Just wait until toilet paper real estate starts being used.
I would pay good money to have toilet paper with the face of my previous middle-manager on it.
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And that's why you should always use an adblocker (black permanent marker)
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