I am a firm believer in Historical Analysis...

I'm apparently guilty of confirmation bias or something similar... I'd glady of bet a small ship expansion that most X-Wing waves are announced either prior to or within a week or so of the previous wave being released.

But looking at the actual dates I see I'm wrong. So yeah I guess Armada is on par for how they do things.

Yea. I have a theory that FFG builds up their Miniatures Community before going further. Thus allowing developers to have time to test and work some things out.

Now IA is not following the Miniatures system. It is in fact following their LCG production model it seems with its deluxe expansions and the monthly releases.

I see five new product announcements on the main page. Out of 8 spots. So, I'm not exactly sure what the issue is. Sure, some of those are the monthly LCG packs, but still new product. Since we got the Veterans announcement, it is going to be a while before we get Wave 9 news.

Ok let me clarify. Im not saying there are no articles, im saying new product release news, aka hey new thing we have never mentioned before. New product announcement. The mist hunter was not first announced yesterday, it was announced July 31. Im not complaining about speed to street date or anything. All i am saying is everyone keeps theorizing that ffg is choosing to slow their release schedule or try and time announcements closer to release dates, all im doing is suggesting a different theory that fits in a business model context. That they may choose to wait to announce any new (again new not previews or spoilers) product announcements until the Asmodee NA thing goes into effect 4-1. I agree xwing still has product line up waiting to hit the street, but Armada and Imp Assault has little to no product in the pipeline that we know of

How often do you think they come out with new stuff? What, you want wave 9 spoiled before wave 8 even hits the shelves? Have some patience. They gave us Imp Vets, at least. That should hold you over for a while. I, like many, would be annoyed if they announced wave 9 right when 8 is released, let alone before.

Hell, I haven't even been able to afford all of wave 7 yet. Wave 8 needs to hang on for a sec while I acquire funds. Wave 9 can wait. So should you.

So ive been wondering why there has been a lack of news over new products from ffg, especially in the star wars product line. Except for imperial veterans in xwing, news on new products has been slim to none. No armada stuff for months, imperial assault only has 2 figure packs due out with nothing behind that, and xwing is just wave 8 and imp veterans. My original thought was episode 7 tie ins, but as we are almost a month past that there must be some other catalyst driving it.

Ok let me clarify. Im not saying there are no articles, im saying new product release news, aka hey new thing we have never mentioned before. New product announcement. The mist hunter was not first announced yesterday, it was announced July 31. Im not complaining about speed to street date or anything. All i am saying is everyone keeps theorizing that ffg is choosing to slow their release schedule or try and time announcements closer to release dates, all im doing is suggesting a different theory that fits in a business model context. That they may choose to wait to announce any new (again new not previews or spoilers) product announcements until the Asmodee NA thing goes into effect 4-1. I agree xwing still has product line up waiting to hit the street, but Armada and Imp Assault has little to no product in the pipeline that we know of

How often do you think they come out with new stuff? What, you want wave 9 spoiled before wave 8 even hits the shelves? Have some patience. They gave us Imp Vets, at least. That should hold you over for a while. I, like many, would be annoyed if they announced wave 9 right when 8 is released, let alone before.

Hell, I haven't even been able to afford all of wave 7 yet. Wave 8 needs to hang on for a sec while I acquire funds. Wave 9 can wait. So should you.

He isn't asking for wave 9 to be spoiled. He is asking if we think they are waiting until April due to the Asmodee deal. In the exact post that you quoted he agrees that X-Wing has stuff in the pipeline, and is talking more about IA and Armada, how they are almost out of gas, so to speak (in terms of new products being announced, spoiled, tracked, on the boat, etc). Both of those games are relatively newer, and since they've come out, we've pretty much always had expansions "in the pipe" that we could plan for. Pretty soon two major Star Wars games are about to have nothing in development (publicly) and he's speculating if that is SOMEHOW related to the Asmodee merger. He's not crying about it. And it has nothing to do with waiting for wave 9.

Yeah, I would imagine Imperial Assault may slow down a bit to be a bit similar to Descent, in terms of products in the pipeline.

Yeah, I would imagine Imperial Assault may slow down a bit to be a bit similar to Descent, in terms of products in the pipeline.

That would be nice. Been too much released.