IA in the FFG web store

By dbmeboy, in Star Wars: Imperial Assault

So I may just be blind, but I can't find IA anywhere in the web store. I know I can find it cheaper on other websites, but I have a little bit of store credit here and was going to use it to get into IA... Can anyone point me towards wherever it's hiding?

FFG is not allowed to sell IA products directly because of licencing issues for Board Games.

That's kind of strange... They sell their other board games directly... Or if IA is a miniatures game (this is a miniatures sub forum, after all), they sell those directly too.

This isn't a case of FFG not selling board games in their store. When they originally got the license it was only for card, miniatures, and RPGs. Hasbro still holds the license for Board Games. Despite this when the original announcement went out, they listed IA as a board game. When queries about this we were assured that the arrangements were in place.

Fast forward to a month or so before release (but after initial sales at Essen) and things hit the fan. Things got delayed and pre-order prices everywhere were increased. What it boiled down to was Hasbro enforce the board game issue and required that FFG sell IA through Hasbro's distribution channels. In the mean time FFG recatorigized it as a Miniatures game in the site, but the tile board is probably the tipping point and it remains in a caterogization limbo.

I guess I should thank them for stopping me from buying into yet another of their games (and an expensive one at that). :unsure: