Hello friends,

Just drawing your attention to this:

Fantasy Flight - Print on Demand

Now, I'm a guy who loves CoC and another LCG from FFG (Alright, it's warhammer... feeling shame...) but the issue has always been that I was not going to buy 3 packs of each asylum pack and the core set and the Secrets of Arkham expansion just to have 3 of each card. But now, BUT NOW, the possibility exists to buy a package that consists of all the cards I am missing for a complete "3 of everything" set, without multiple copies of the cards I already have 3 of, for a (presumably) decent price!

They mention that the finish/colour scheme may be different and as such this process might not be ideal for games where you shuffle cards into existing decks, but using sleeves with an opaque back should solve this problem.

Thoughts?

HappyDD said:

From what I've read on this product is that it will offer prefixed, small expansions to games.

So, it won't be possible to order individual cards. Also, since it does has differences to the more high-end printed products, there are certain product lines for which it can be used, and other where it would stand out too much.

The goal seems to be to offer smaller expansions for games where shuffling into existing cardpools is not needed.

While I won't see Asylum Packs being distributed "on demand" this way, it could mean there will be other products for CoC in the future.

I'm thinking things like Domain cards, which would work in this format. Even smaller decks, like story decks might work, as any color differnces should be consistant over the entire pack this way. But that's pure speculation.

I thought this was only Death Angel card game?

Is FFG actually considering this for the LCG? Personally, I think any direction which doesnt support the local stores where players gather to play these card games is a bad direction.

Ephraim said:

I think they are using Death Angel as an example but can do it for other games. One that springs to mind is if they were to offer new stand-alone decks for Arkham Horror, then this process would be a good way to go.

Ephraim said:

The LCG option is the issue, I'm not sure they are considering it for LCG but as someone that would like to buy a package of cards designed to give someone that bought a single-set of the game to have 3 copies of each card I don't mind having them with a different finish or whatever as I would use sleeves.

Now, with non-LCG things, I think what FFG is going for is that without this digital printing approach the expansions wouldn't get made (not enough demand, too expensive, whatever other reason), so this is a sort of micro-transaction, like downloadable content for video games. I think on the site it says digitally printed packages could still be sold at the friendly local game store, I didn't perceive that to be an issue so that's good