Dear Kind, Highly Talented, but Sometimes Polishing-Challenged Folk at FFG,
As we the people do intensely desire a reprint of the Game of Thrones boardgame,
And as many have commented on, yearned for, and wondered about fixes to the games slight imperfections,
including the map, its exactness and beauty, its balance of ports; the balance between certain houses, their order in power; and the corrections provided by now virtually unavailable expansions that may be in essence included in such a reprint,
And as FFG would do well, for all your talent in components and game design, to spend a few weeks on fine-tuning before release, as was obviously done with the recent Cosmic Encounter reprint and Sid Meyer's Civilization, playtested and even (gasp
) sufficiently edited for typos and ease of rule comprehension,
And as the current HBO series managed over three million viewers upon airing of just its tenth episode, on a channel that is not only limited to cable viewers, but to premium cable viewers,
And as we, including you, would love to see an improved, tightened, polished, and even more impressive version of the Game of Thrones board game,
Do consider and honor our request that this game, this sweet gem in particular, potentially bound for greater glory and wider appeal than even Diplomacy accomplished, do receive the detail that it so deserveth, and would be so well spent, before its next release;
and instead of an unrevised reprint;
and in appreciation of the coming four, nay, probably at least six book-based seasons of epic television cross-marketing exposure;
and with a view to its potential to raise FFG from its heights as a gaming dynasty to a cross-over hit machine, a mass-appeal noble house of the board game revolution, take the time and effort,
to make a finer feeling, and even finer looking product,
to test, fix, or otherwise ensure the seamless resolution of any and all imbalances, card-back mismatching, and forum-fuming niggles,
to reconstruct, write, and, edit (by professional English editor) a rulebook which all may read, and dive into play, and love, with the world it introduces,
and, yea, to lift the stain of careless-text-editing-and-conspicuous-failure-in-final-polishing-stages that has indeed been lightened in recent years, and almost cleansed away by FFG's recent well-scrubbed works; to make FFG a household name in non-gamer households, a three-letter acronym in homes that pride themselves on owning but a TTR variant, or SoC set; in short, to put this fine game—and the company behind it—where it belongs, everywhere.
For we have waited this long (and not for silly Flying Frog-corny-style HBO-approved real-life images, so aberrant and unnecessary in a classic board game, already rich in theme and tasteful in visual presentation)
And the potential to go from good to great is here, to be sifted patiently, in a sieve fine enough even perhaps to rid this gold of the pebbles of inconsistency, loosen the dust of its older design's clumsinesses, and perchance even let fall away an hour or so of down time,
that we look to you on this matter, a legion of current and yet unmustered fans, with bated breath and well-thought-out suggestions,
For thine is the Kingdom of Westeros,
and the much-beloved-and-also-easily-cross-marketed Power of your similarly themed LCG and Battlelore games, which do reach truly separate sub-markets, so in no way should be considered cannibalizing competition, but on the contrary can only serve to relay customers to such a masterpiece as we here entreat, and as from such a polished gem typical boardgamers and even more mainstreams customers may be seduced to otherwise less card-based and miniature-warfare-like products,
and the potential medieval Glory forever,
Amen.