Unless its posted somewhere else, let me be the first to start a thread about the unfortunate laying-off of the RPG team - just as Star Wars is exploding across several media venues?

What does this mean for this forum? Will it even continue to be moderated?

What does this mean for your game?

Do we expect fan material to fill the gap? How will Lucasfilm react to personal publication of SW material?

There's a post in the main EOTE forum about it.

And in all fairness I feel there is more then enough material out there to run a Star Wars campaign in any era; given that the system is relatively abstract it's pretty easy to create a outframe for anything with the amount of material we already have.

7 hours ago, Khyrith said:

just as Star Wars is exploding across several media venues?

Rumor (and only rumor) is that Asmodee, FFG's parent company, is trying to get itself sold. If that is indeed the case this would probably be them trimming out the less profitable departments to allow the books to show better numbers as they pitch themselves to potential buyers.

7 hours ago, Khyrith said:

What does this mean for this forum?

Nothing, at least for now. No reason to close the forum just yet.

7 hours ago, Khyrith said:

Will it even continue to be moderated?

Yes.

7 hours ago, Khyrith said:

What does this mean for your game?

Nothing. Still got Dice and Book. I'll be playing this game till I'm dead or they sell me something better.

7 hours ago, Khyrith said:

Do we expect fan material to fill the gap?

It has in the past.

7 hours ago, Khyrith said:

How will Lucasfilm react to personal publication of SW material?

Traditionally LFL has been pretty lenient about stuff like this. That could change if Disney disagrees, but there's little reason to go after a fan publication for a niche of a niche market that they are no longer supporting...

1 hour ago, Ghostofman said:

Rumor (and only rumor) is that Asmodee, FFG's parent company, is trying to get itself sold.

I've been in that situation. We were owned by a "consortium of investors" who were in a long line of groups that bought the company, gave it momentum with initial capital, then let it coast with the barest maintenance money for a few years to maximize profitability into their own sale.

When a global corporation three times our size purchased us, the thinking was that we'd at least be integrated and treated as an essential business unit even though it was slowly divesting itself of our business type — but then that company was purchased by the rival it tried to buy 10 years earlier, now three times its size, and that one sliced us off like a cut of beef for a much smaller company who paid a premium. This new place is a rough around the edges but it's dedicated to our business type and has made substantial investments.

So, for all we know, this could be a mere bump in the road.

42 minutes ago, wilsch said:

I've been in that situation. We were owned by a "consortium of investors" who were in a long line of groups that bought the company, gave it momentum with initial capital, then let it coast with the barest maintenance money for a few years to maximize profitability into their own sale.

When a global corporation three times our size purchased us, the thinking was that we'd at least be integrated and treated as an essential business unit even though it was slowly divesting itself of our business type — but then that company was purchased by the rival it tried to buy 10 years earlier, now three times its size, and that one sliced us off like a cut of beef for a much smaller company who paid a premium. This new place is a rough around the edges but it's dedicated to our business type and has made substantial investments.

So, for all we know, this could be a mere bump in the road.

Yeah, I've been on the other end of such a thing for a while now. My employer pimped out a major function they didn't want to deal with to a bunch of smaller companies. One company gobbled them up, ran it, then solid it all to another, rinse repeat, with each new company doing a big injection up front, and then running things even cheaper than the one before.

3 hours ago, Ghostofman said:

Rumor (and only rumor) is that Asmodee, FFG's parent company, is trying to get itself sold. If that is indeed the case this would probably be them trimming out the less profitable departments to allow the books to show better numbers as they pitch themselves to potential buyers.

Again? " Eurazeo began searching for a potential buyer for Asmodée in early 2018, and announced by July 2018 that it was selling the company to another French private equity firm, PAI Partners at a price of about €1.2 billion.[17]"
I thought that deal was done already and Asmodee switched hands from one private equity firm to another.