The CEO of Hasbro is affirming everything I've said about the Big Move.
What Cox said about AI being part of the game is not an idea; it's being implemented- he's downplaying what's really going on for Public Relations purposes.
The Big Move dynamites the chokepoint in the hobby as Conventional Play sees it: Referees. Replacing human referees with bots is happening, guaranteed because players are already doing this themselves with external tools. This is Revealed Preferences in action, and it's happening because this conforms to what Normies want out of entertainment.
Hasborg and Wizards of the Coast are Mammon Mobster outfits. They are slaved to Line Must Go UP! They are not stupid; they know what the issues with popular uptake are. If they can redesign the entire structure of play while moving the property to where the Normies are (Vidya), they would be stupid not to do so. That's why the bots are coming into The Only Game That Matters: Normies are far more likely to play if they don't have to Schedule Their Fun, deal with Tinpot Tyrants as Referees, don't have to worry about LOLSORANDOM rules fuckery, etc.- the things that made Vidya beat Tabletop in the 1980s.
Yes, there will be bot Referees, bot-generated content, and bot-run allies for your man sooner than later- especially since the proprietary VTT is a thing. All of this will be playable on your snitchbrick, and Pay To Win monetization will happen, all because LINE MUST GO UP! Death Cult pozzing has nothing to do with it.
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