Next Shock

[magicrealm 57]

After the Hurray that 7 unit packs (3 from basepack uthuk) finally made the step beyond the Printer on the boat, the next shock comes immediately :  x- wing 2nd edition

At upcoming list development is full of x wing fighters.  that looks like no new units for runewars for a long time or forever. desperate.

[Polda 4,281]

X-Wing doesn't use the same type of plastic and is most likely manufactured elsewhere than Legion, Runewars, Mansions of Madness, Imp Assault etc. 

There could be an overlap in where they make the cardboard, but I don't think putting out a massive amount of cardboard chits was ever any issue for FFG as a boardgame company.

Edited May 3, 2018 by Polda

[Church14 2,495]

I’ll wait and see. I expect the next few fridays (maybe Tuesdays right before release) will be (in no particular order):

Thresher Preview

Kethra Preview

Berserker Preview

Scouts Preview

Wraith Preview

 

Once they have milked those as long as they can, they will announce (my guess) the Latari “technical” unit (Wraith/Scouts analog), the Uthuk Archers, and the Uthuk “technical.”

 

Dont worry about it. Either the game is fine or FFG needlessly killed it. Either way, worrying won’t help anything. 

[Athelin 58]

magicrealm is the apocalypse prophet of this subforum. I don't even try to take his posts seriously.

Edited May 3, 2018 by Athelin

[Budgernaut 6,255]

Well before, I felt that he wasn't even interested in this game and was just trying to rain on our parade, but now I sense that he does care about Runewars and wants it to succeed, but he can't get over the feeling of betrayal that has cone over him from the way FFG has treated other product lines that he has enjoyed. I can't say I blame him. I started following FFG in 2010. I was quite the FFG apologist in the beginning, I've lost my naivety. Truth is, boardgames are poplular and there are too many publishers now. FFG is resorting to the best techniques they know how to usw for keeping their business afloat. Unfortunately, those techniques increasingly alienate the customers in exchange for short-term gain. Creating board games and expansions has fallen out of their style, replaced with microtransactions. This is what killed BattleLore. They couldn't be satisified with the expansion box model, so they tried out expansion figures (single units for $15) and it flopped. The community didn't want that. So did FFG change the model? No.  They terminated the product line before its time.

I also think in the case of BattleLore that expansions took too long to be released. By time the Undesd came out, people had already left the game. I was sure Runewars was committed to fixing that problem, but here we are with what will be at least a 5-month gap between product on a game designed for tournament play. If these expansions don't sell as well as previous ones (and I'm thinking they won't), FFG will slow production even further in favor of producing more Star Wars. That will only kill the game faster and then they'll cease production altogether. 

Not that any of this matters to me since I don't have a play group anyway.

Edited May 4, 2018 by Budgernaut
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[magicrealm 57]

On 5/4/2018 at 1:37 PM, Budgernaut said:

Well before, I felt that he wasn't even interested in this game and was just trying to rain on our parade, but now I sense that he does care about Runewars and wants it to succeed, but he can't get over the feeling of betrayal that has cone over him from the way FFG has treated other product lines that he has enjoyed. I can't say I blame him. I started following FFG in 2010. I was quite the FFG apologist in the beginning, I've lost my naivety. Truth is, boardgames are poplular and there are too many publishers now. FFG is resorting to the best techniques they know how to usw for keeping their business afloat. Unfortunately, those techniques increasingly alienate the customers in exchange for short-term gain. Creating board games and expansions has fallen out of their style, replaced with microtransactions. This is what killed BattleLore. They couldn't be satisified with the expansion box model, so they tried out expansion figures (single units for $15) and it flopped. The community didn't want that. So did FFG change the model? No.  They terminated the product line before its time.

I also think in the case of BattleLore that expansions took too long to be released. By time the Undesd came out, people had already left the game. I was sure Runewars was committed to fixing that problem, but here we are with what will be at least a 5-month gap between product on a game designed for tournament play. If these expansions don't sell as well as previous ones (and I'm thinking they won't), FFG will slow production even further in favor of producing more Star Wars. That will only kill the game faster and then they'll cease production altogether. 

Not that any of this matters to me since I don't have a play group anyway.

Thanks Budgernaut for pointing this out.