Wow, even dice are getting hard to find!

22 hours ago, Mistervimes said:

Could be. PAI Partners bought Asmodee from Eurazeo in October of 2018 for around €1.2 billion (about $2.16 billion at the time.) If PAI is looking for a buyer it's going to sell for a chunk.

it would explain things.. they want a quick flip for profit.

Here is a crazy idea. EA takes over the SW RPG IP. EA owns the video game IP giving them access to PDF sales. EA has the resources to hire a writing staff. The SW RPG property could provide EA with a good basis if they wanted to enter the role-playing business.

This Is a theoretical.

Otherwise, Fantasy Flight can go the route of CGL. Have one chief editor who collaborates with freelancers to continue the RPG line.

30 minutes ago, Morninghasbroken said:

EA has the resources to hire a writing staff. The SW RPG property could provide EA with a good basis if they wanted to enter the role-playing business.

The RPG Business is small potatoes for a company like EA. You can be sure they have no interest in it. At all.

In a perfect world Disney would buy Asmodee.

4 minutes ago, Scott McFarland said:

In a perfect world Disney would buy Asmodee.

As a player of more than just SW RPG’s I disagree wholeheartedly. Disney would discontinue L5R instantly for instance.

15 minutes ago, DanteRotterdam said:

As a player of more than just SW RPG’s I disagree wholeheartedly. Disney would discontinue L5R instantly for instance.

And replace it with it with a game that has character splats based upon each of their princesses!

31 minutes ago, Scott McFarland said:

In a perfect world Disney would buy Asmodee.

Disney is EA, that would be bad. Always with the Sith two there are.

24 minutes ago, daggertx said:

Disney is EA

Wait! What?

3 hours ago, DanteRotterdam said:

Wait! What?

They both usually destroy what they touch.

24 minutes ago, daggertx said:

They both usually destroy what they touch.

Ohhhhh.

It was a “Teh Diznee is evulz becuz teh Diznee” thing.

With that in perspective, moving on....

Never said they are evil, just they and EA have in the past handled many things terribly. Feel free to move on though

10 hours ago, Nytwyng said:

Ohhhhh.

It was a “Teh Diznee is evulz becuz teh Diznee” thing.

With that in perspective, moving on....

Not defending any side here, but objectively you could say that EA does indeed destroy studios. Westwood? Bought and shut down. Bullfrog? Bought and shut down. Origin? NuFX? Pandemic? PlayFish? Black Box? DreamWorks Interactive? Mythic, Maxis, and Visceral Games? This is Just a small sampling of the very, very long list of studios that EA have bought and then shut down.

I don’t think anyone was arguing that...

22 hours ago, Nytwyng said:

Ohhhhh.

It was a “Teh Diznee is evulz becuz teh Diznee” thing.

With that in perspective, moving on....

Would you settle for "they Flanderize everything they touch?"

Disney has a strong brand and are very good at telling stories marketed to a very particular set of sensibilities. They also have a tendency to homogenize previously distinctive properties they acquire in order to broaden their appeal and maximize profits. That is neither evil nor, for anyone who is paying attention, controversial as an observation. Its how mega-corporations make money.

The natural consequence, however, is that franchises with historically distinctive flavors are rendered bland by the standards of their historical consumers. That doesn't mean there aren't people who like what Disney has done, or even more people, or that Disney won't make a giant wads of cash. Plenty of people like it. Yet, Its not at all unreasonable, or unexpected, for a sizable chunk of the historical fan-base to say they don't like what Disney did to the franchise.

Mocking them for expressing an aesthetic opinion you don't share just makes you look small.

Let's say you grew up in Tejano country just north of the Rio Grand eating in a authentic Tex Mex restaurants. Its spicy and uses unique local ingredients. Then the owners decide to retire and sell to Taco Bell for a pretty penny. Would anyone be surprised to hear the old customers say "Taco Bell food sucks"? Would anyone really blame them? You can like Taco Bell and still understand why they wouldn't.

Just move on, dude. Life is to short to cast stones over aesthetic differences.

On 2/4/2020 at 10:02 AM, RookiePilot said:

Wow, even dice are getting hard to find!

I managed to find a few sets online and bought them, just to tuck away. Well, technically I bought 2 sets, and then grabbed the Force Awakens beginner game, as I didn't have it, and it does come with a set of dice.

I discovered you can still order dice through FFG’s online shop.

32 minutes ago, Vondy said:

Would you settle for "they Flanderize everything they touch?"

Disney has a strong brand and are very good at telling stories marketed to a very particular set of sensibilities. They also have a tendency to homogenize previously distinctive properties they acquire in order to broaden their appeal and maximize profits. That is neither evil nor, for anyone who is paying attention, controversial as an observation. Its how mega-corporations make money.

The natural consequence, however, is that franchises with historically distinctive flavors are rendered bland by the standards of their historical consumers. That doesn't mean there aren't people who like what Disney has done, or even more people, or that Disney won't make a giant wads of cash. Plenty of people like it. Yet, Its not at all unreasonable, or unexpected, for a sizable chunk of the historical fan-base to say they don't like what Disney did to the franchise.

Mocking them for expressing an aesthetic opinion you don't share just makes you look small.

Let's say you grew up in Tejano country just north of the Rio Grand eating in a authentic Tex Mex restaurants. Its spicy and uses unique local ingredients. Then the owners decide to retire and sell to Taco Bell for a pretty penny. Would anyone be surprised to hear the old customers say "Taco Bell food sucks"? Would anyone really blame them? You can like Taco Bell and still understand why they wouldn't.

Just move on, dude. Life is to short to cast stones over aesthetic differences.

Now see, that’s a case that one can make an argument for, rather than a blanket “(Insert company name here) destroys everything they touch.” I appreciate the thought that you put into it.

Even at that, though, I’d counter that it’s not necessarily so. In the publishing arena, Marvel has stayed Marvel, while the Marvel Studios aspect was still new enough at the time Disney bought Marvel that it’s next to impossible to say whether or not the movie franchise would have taken the same direction without Disney. At the same time, that’s not saying that Marvel Comics hasn’t been without problems, but that ore-dates Disney, and they’re the same set of problems found at DC. Namely, for the past 20+ years, since they foolishly thought the inflated numbers of the speculator boom of the early 90s would be permanent and suffered massive losses in the ensuing bust, they’ve ignored the business model monthly super-hero comics were built on; they stopped writing for an ever-revolving audience that would stick around for a handful of years and began catering more and more to the long-time readers who were supposed to be outliers. With the books becoming increasingly inaccessible to new readers - both from a story and literal availability standpoint - they see ever-diminishing returns and respond by chasing that existing (but shrinking) audience harder. In that respect, Marvel could actually benefit from Disney’s expertise in cultivating a never-ending influx of new audience that may eventually leave, but will be replaced by more new audience members.

Likewise, I’d say that, cross-content promotion synergy aside, ABC remains pretty much the same network that I remember watching growing up, pre-Disney ownership.

Are they perfect? Nah. Are there even some problems in the House of Mouse? Sure. Just seems that there’s this default stance that’s become fashionable of Disney’s bad because it’s Disney. Period. End of line.

On 2/5/2020 at 7:08 AM, Morninghasbroken said:

Here is a crazy idea. EA takes over the SW RPG IP. EA owns the video game IP giving them access to PDF sales. EA has the resources to hire a writing staff. The SW RPG property could provide EA with a good basis if they wanted to enter the role-playing business.

This Is a theoretical.

Otherwise, Fantasy Flight can go the route of CGL. Have one chief editor who collaborates with freelancers to continue the RPG line.

Dear God, I hope not. I don't wan't to have to pay to buy extra chapters. And then pay again to get the updated language correcting unuseable rules.

On 2/5/2020 at 4:06 PM, HappyDaze said:

And replace it with it with a game that has character splats based upon each of their princesses!

I... kinda want to play this. It'll certainly be something different.

On 2/5/2020 at 9:27 PM, daggertx said:

Never said they are evil, just they and EA have in the past handled many things terribly. Feel free to move on though

Well, EA are actually evil. They push gambling on kids. and other vulnerable people.

But Disney isn't EA, and I bet Lucasfilm is regretting that 10-year deal with EA that they made when EA still was saner.

Some news about the future would be nice. I think I read they hired back one of the people let go, but I am not sure of who it was.

On 2/5/2020 at 8:08 AM, Morninghasbroken said:

Here is a crazy idea. EA takes over the SW RPG IP. EA owns the video game IP giving them access to PDF sales. EA has the resources to hire a writing staff. The SW RPG property could provide EA with a good basis if they wanted to enter the role-playing business.

This Is a theoretical.

Otherwise, Fantasy Flight can go the route of CGL. Have one chief editor who collaborates with freelancers to continue the RPG line.

That would require trust in EA. I have none. FFG has earned that trust. Also FFG interactive wouldnt have been shut down with that plan.

3 hours ago, daggertx said:

Some news about the future would be nice. I think I read they hired back one of the people let go, but I am not sure of who it was.

Kat Ostrander was hired as Creative Director of Story & Setting after the layoffs, although she had previously left FFG some time prior. I haven’t heard of anyone else being brought back from the RPG group, and I’d think that would have made some noise in the community. I’d love to be wrong about that, though.

Does that title mean she is in charge of the RPG stuff?