So game night was a bit of a bust this week. I came to reveal the contents of the Regional kit, but only managed to get a single match in. While I’m sitting here waiting for the store to close to help the owner set up for regionals tomorrow, I’ve been thinking about the contents of their kits.

We’ve had alt arts of the most common GR-75, acrylic evades, now we’re getting alt art of the most common gozanti, and acrylic scatters. I was thinking, “man they’re really pushing flotillas in their kits lately”. It rubs me as kind of amusing considering the forum’s tone regarding flotillas earlier this year. All the hate and fire over them and FFG just smiles and hands out more.

Maybe their recent level of silence is them getting their twisted giggles in on our outrage over the last FAQ delay?

Either way, long night ahead, excited to get regionals started tomorrow! Good luck everyone participating!

Im going to suggest that frustrating your player base for the fun of it might not be the best business decision.

I suspect ffg put the flots alt art out because theyre the most consistently used ships, nearly every list has at least 1

Not sure what possessed them to put out the GR-75, but once they did that is was pretty well a foregone conclusion that the Gozanti was coming next...

I suspect that the ubiquity of the flotillas prompted the inclusion of the GR-75. If players are fielding them in large numbers, then surely this is an alt art card that appeals to everyone.

Note that we've now completed the circuit, since both the Combat Retrofits and the Gozanti Assault were included in the nationals prizes, which incidentally also included contain tokens, at least according to the promo. I didn't attend, did anyone attend and pick these up?

And yes, I think that does free them up for the next cycle to do MC30s or the Quasar, both of which have a lot of present popularity.

I'm pretty sure this is not some devious attempt to spite the fanbase.

Sometimes the folks on this forum seem to want to feel like an oppressed minority, for whom FFG goes out if their way to annoy. I guess they just want another hit of that ultimate drug: righteous indignation.

I get the feeling this decision was based on sales of the flotillas.

It is time you all understand that FFG don’t care what all fans say about anything. They do what they want because this game is so popular they now we gonna buy it anyway.

because of this they really don’t need to care. We are just Star Wars junkies that are waiting for the next fix.

And we will take anything we get even how bad we are treated or how long we have to wait. So they may stall any release how long they want, tease us , starve us until the time is right.

Then they may give us any ship they want even one with no weapons or upgrade slots and we will thank them with all our hearts.......

2 hours ago, Mikael Hasselstein said:

I'm pretty sure this is not some devious attempt to spite the fanbase.

Sometimes the folks on this forum seem to want to feel like an oppressed minority, for whom FFG goes out if their way to annoy. I guess they just want another hit of that ultimate drug: righteous indignation.

I mean, the only person that really suggested it was darth and even he did so in what i took as jest. i agree that ppeople over react but meh

Personally I love the decision (but I’m also one of those jerks who sends them off to the middle of nowhere and uses relay.) It’s a great ship that gets used in a ton of different fleets, it’s a logical counterpart to the GR75, and it combines with the scatter tokens. And (IMHO) the art looks AMAZING. Not to get all annoyingly positive or anything... but why is this choice a problem?

13 hours ago, The Jabbawookie said:

...but why is this choice a problem?

Because people want to be upset.

2 minutes ago, Mikael Hasselstein said:

Because people want to be upset.

And then they want it to be justified - hence the sense of righteous indignation, rather than just the mundane variety.

13 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

And then they want it to be justified - hence the sense of righteous indignation, rather than just the mundane variety.

Indeed.

9 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

And then they want it to be justified - hence the sense of righteous indignation, rather than just the mundane variety.

At least they are not EA.

16 hours ago, dominosfleet said:

At first I would ask it it works, if they were honest they would say no then I move to frame 3 as I didn't want it (and who would want a solution that doesn't work).

But more often they lie and let me try the solution that fails. In that case I am afraid I will have to set the person that gives me the solution on fire.

I think it is just safer for everyone that I don't ask and just skip to frame 3 and just assume the solution was never intended to work, that way I don't have to set anyone on fire.