For other FFG Star Wars Games, it is common to announce the next product shortly after the previous releases, even after a soft release or prerelease. I, for one, would be surprised if they didn't go ahead and announce another set that will release at or around Gencon, and Gencon will announce the details of the Base Set for holiday release.

Anyone else think we'll get a Destiny announcement? SoR was announced shortly after release. It's been 4 months and SoR is on the immediate horizon. Gencon is 4 months away. Seems logical.

Heck, they were making announcements about Set 3 at the in-house prerelease for Set 1, so I reckon you're on the money there guessing sooner rather than later. I think they do need to pick their time carefully, though... Announcing it before SoR has had a chance to spread sufficiently through the community is leaving themselves open for more of those tired critiques about shortages and distribution issues.

I doubt it. Maybe they'll have some boosters though for Awakening and SoR. At the very least, maybe some promo cards!

Only if they want to kill SoR hype even more.

If they do it won't be much more than an ETA and maybe a set name.

How about a tease like the tease of Thrawn at the preview event at FFG?

I think it is more likely to get announce at Worlds in May. There will be too many other large announcements coming out of Celebration. They're likely to to get lost in the shuffle.

3 hours ago, WonderWAAAGH said:

Only if they want to kill SoR hype even more.

Is SoR hype dead? I'm still pretty hype.

The leaks really destroyed their marketing plan, such as it was. There are good reasons why you don't tip your hand too early. Financial reasons.

The weird thing for me is going to be the fact that come worlds SoR will have well and truly bedded into the meta with all the people on TTS building cool new decks, most are likely to have their hands on it by worlds and it will be second nature to play with and against decks with SoR cards in them.

Then worlds happens and it will be some weird snapshot of what the meta was 6-7 weeks beforehand with no SoR cards seeing play. I understand why they are making Worlds Awakenings only but its just feels odd. As much as I enjoyed the PR it feels really weird for a CCG PR to happen 5 or so weeks before the actual release, guess I'm too used to the MTG model of PR only 1 week prior to regular sale.

There have always been such weirdness with FFG Products. It seems to take them so long to get from design to factory and factory to shelf that leaks are a hugely possibility. I'd say its best to announce a product 6 months early than for it to show up on reddit months before anyone was supposed to know that it exists, but that's just my opinion. Prereleases for other games like X-wing and Armada have also happened nearly or over a month prior to the official product release. And delays have always been par for the course. But so is the announcement of a new product as soon as some of us have their hands on the last one. I was just pointing out that compared to the SoR announcement, the timing is just right, and FFG have announced products at Celebration in the past.

12 hours ago, Mace Windu said:

The weird thing for me is going to be the fact that come worlds SoR will have well and truly bedded into the meta with all the people on TTS building cool new decks, most are likely to have their hands on it by worlds and it will be second nature to play with and against decks with SoR cards in them.

Then worlds happens and it will be some weird snapshot of what the meta was 6-7 weeks beforehand with no SoR cards seeing play. I understand why they are making Worlds Awakenings only but its just feels odd. As much as I enjoyed the PR it feels really weird for a CCG PR to happen 5 or so weeks before the actual release, guess I'm too used to the MTG model of PR only 1 week prior to regular sale.

The risk with a prerelease 1 week before is if the prerelease needs to be delayed, it either forces a delayed release even if the release had no other delays or it forces the prerelease to happen after the release. It's just too risky if delays are a routine issue for the business.

I agree, having a major tournament so close to the actual release of a major product for that game is odd, because it creates an odd outdated snapshot of the meta, but that is resolved by just actually planning your releases and events and bumping one of them forward to a sooner date or back to a later date during that planning stage so there is hopefully a nice month between them to provide a cushion for possible delays.

9 hours ago, anthonybarnstable said:

The risk with a prerelease 1 week before is if the prerelease needs to be delayed, it either forces a delayed release even if the release had no other delays or it forces the prerelease to happen after the release. It's just too risky if delays are a routine issue for the business.

I don’t really buy that, if you're going to get into the CCG market you need to be able to deliver consistent reliable PR and Street dates for product. Every other successful CCG does, and Asmode has the logistics capacity to make it happen.

If they can't get that fundamental task right, short of drastically unpredictable shipping holdups (AKA Harbour strikes) then they should rethink selling a CCG.

It’s a fantastic product with arguably the most widely known and profitable fantasy franchise attached to, but CCG players can be fickle and if FFG (Asmode) can't get reliable delivery timeframes then players will move on.

13 hours ago, Mace Windu said:

I don’t really buy that, if you're going to get into the CCG market you need to be able to deliver consistent reliable PR and Street dates for product. Every other successful CCG does, and Asmode has the logistics capacity to make it happen.

If they can't get that fundamental task right, short of drastically unpredictable shipping holdups (AKA Harbour strikes) then they should rethink selling a CCG.

It’s a fantastic product with arguably the most widely known and profitable fantasy franchise attached to, but CCG players can be fickle and if FFG (Asmode) can't get reliable delivery timeframes then players will move on.

Isn't FFG notorious for unexpected delays in every product they release? If they do that for everything else, I don't see why this would be different.

There are plenty of collectible games (that are/were successful, the ones that failed had failed due to other reasons) that have a long run of delays in their releases.

4 hours ago, anthonybarnstable said:

Isn't FFG notorious for unexpected delays in every product they release? If they do that for everything else, I don't see why this would be different.

There are plenty of collectible games (that are/were successful, the ones that failed had failed due to other reasons) that have a long run of delays in their releases.

We're not drawing comparisons in a vacuum; the CCG market is highly competitive, and the biggest, best, and most successful card games have absolutely zero issues getting their product to market. That's what FFG is up against, and if they can't figure out a way to pull their heads out of their collective armpits they'll wind up alongside Spellfire in the massive pile of unsuccessful card games.

Boom!

So....Sabine recycles thermal detonators (among other things)

Sabine is number 40. I think it'll have only three caracters per category. What Do you think?

You made me hungry to keep watching REBELS