2 hours ago, Silver_leader said:

B ut since we are not in a normal situation, I think that FFG has to create some momentum from their Star Wars products, especially that the Clone Wars series has come to an end. There is a lot coming around with the leaks. It would be a good idea to give a little something at the players to chew on. No articles have been posted since january 8, except the adepticon announcement that have been made by Max on FFG live about the faction packs.

I really think that in a marketing perspective, it would be a good idea to create a hype for X-Wing for december 2020 with a lot of the future releases. I would send all the faction packs in a big release with maybe 2 waves (3 ships already announced and the next release).

I’d be all for one massive December 2020 release since we got all blocked up this year. Give us a bunch of stuff to be excited for.

Right now, because the rumor is out it would make sense for them to just announce the next wave and maybe try to release them with wave 7 since it got delayed. Let us see if we are going to be going bonkers for our V-wings and Eta2s.

I want to see the squad pack as well if possible.

This is the longest time xwing has gone without meaningful news or hype since second edition for sure, and possibly the longest before that.

And to add to my previous notice, they have release a Marvel Heroes article yesterday, and a Keyforge article which tells that their latest product will be on the shelves on July 10.....

I have a bad feeling about all this..... (strange would be the good word, but it's simply the good sentence )

48 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

Thi s is the longest time xwing has gone without meaningful news or hype since second edition for sure, and possibly the longest before that .

..what, four months? Not even close. 😂

And again - for those who seemed determined to ignore the fact - the last three months have been anything but normal for anyone, let alone those companies reliant on imports from China.

13 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

And again - for those who seemed determined to ignore the fact - the last three months have been anything but normal for anyone, let alone those companies reliant on imports from China.

Information is not blocked because of supply issues. Sure, if someone was saying “where are my minis?!” then I could see the covid argument. But they haven’t been out of work. They have been commuting (or really telecommuting).

4 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

Information is not blocked because of supply issues. Sure, if someone was saying “where are my minis?!” then I could see the covid argument. But they haven’t been out of work. They have been commuting (or really telecommuting).

*sigh* "haven't been out of work". And you know this for certain, do you? You know how many of FFG's workforce are still actively continuing in their usual roles? Not everyone is working from home, Scummy. Plenty of people worldwide have been sent home from their usual jobs, furloughed, placed on indefinite leave or worse.

At the risk of repeating myself, FFG had a large number of layoffs in January BEFORE the effects of Covid-19 were felt. It's not unreasonable to suggest that FFG - just like many other businesses deemed to be "non-essential" - are operating with a skeleton staff and as such, information channels are not operating as they usually do. The forum mods at least are clearly absent.

And don't be so naive to think that supply issues = / = information issues. We know for a fact news articles usually tie in with releases, be it previews or new product announcements. If the supply of new products is delayed (and make no mistake, everything will be at this moment in time, from production to shipping to distribution), then news on those products will be as well.

19 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

*sigh* "haven't been out of work". And you know this for certain, do you? You know how many of FFG's workforce are still actively continuing in their usual roles? Not everyone is working from home, Scummy.

Considering their Facebook page was posting stuff about them working from home, pretty sure. They said it; why would I doubt it?

4 hours ago, FTS Gecko said:

*sigh* "haven't been out of work". And you know this for certain, do you? You know how many of FFG's workforce are still actively continuing in their usual roles? Not everyone is working from home, Scummy. Plenty of people worldwide have been sent home from their usual jobs, furloughed, placed on indefinite leave or worse.

At the risk of repeating myself, FFG had a large number of layoffs in January BEFORE the effects of Covid-19 were felt. It's not unreasonable to suggest that FFG - just like many other businesses deemed to be "non-essential" - are operating with a skeleton staff and as such, information channels are not operating as they usually do. The forum mods at least are clearly absent.

And don't be so naive to think that supply issues = / = information issues. We know for a fact news articles usually tie in with releases, be it previews or new product announcements. If the supply of new products is delayed (and make no mistake, everything will be at this moment in time, from production to shipping to distribution), then news on those products will be as well.

I do understand your point. But they have done FFG live by being in quarantine, when they announced the faction packs. I really don't know in which direction this is going

They may want to show some stuff, but no news of a game for nearly 5 mmonths when you had a wave pratically every 3 months for over 7 years ? i know the situation is exceptional, but I repeat mself: they did gave news of Five Rings, Keyforge, Legion, Arkham Horror. Why nothing about X-Wing (and Armada) ?

Number of days since latest article about releases : 136 (jan 15)

Number of days since latest announcement: 62 (adepticon march 25)

Did I said that players have waited enough for news of X-Wing ? 😂 😂

3 hours ago, Silver_leader said:

Number of days since latest article about releases : 136 (jan 15)

Number of days since latest announcement: 62 (adepticon march 25)

Did I said that players have waited enough for news of X-Wing ? 😂 😂

Armada would like a word with you but I take your point. I'm jonesin' for an LAAT preview article myself but with a September release still possible I know it's still likely a long wait.

11 hours ago, Pa Weasley said:

Armada would like a word with you but I take your point.

I entirely agree with you, especially that there have been leaks about conversions boxes for the clone wars factions

If I wanted to put dates for Armada, I would have put them on the Armada forum :).