WHY ARE CARDS SETS DUPLICATED IN DESOLATION OF HOTH?

By cmdrcody, in Star Wars: The Card Game

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cleardave said:

So really, what makes the most sense to me, after Hoth is done, and we get Edge of Darkness, is that FFG just surprises us all with a really smart follow-up cycle. By the end of summer, when Hoth and Edge of Darkness is all completely out, our humble Core Set matches will be expanded to a lot of variability. The follow-up cycle may be a lead in to the multiplayer big box expansion the rulebook alludes to, and to be honest, even if mechanically it isn't addressed, there are just so many ideas from those movies to work with for another cycle that we'll be well into 2014 before the "movie material" could potentially be exhausted.

Jedi Training (with a Sith counterpart?)

Cloud City

Endor on the ground

Endor in space

…and then maybe some EU-centric cycle or box, with my money being on a Shadows of the Empire tie-in as the next largest and recognized "Civil War Era" tale to plunder for more cards.

I'd imagine the fifth cycle will either be movie-based (Tatooine, perhaps?) or set in the Prequel era, since by the end of it, Episode VII will have been released, and FFG will then know how much of the currently-canon EU they can work with. Depending on their relationship with LFL, they might even receive early access to film notes for the purposes of planning ahead, since sets for these games are usually ironed out months before beginning production. Certainly the sooner they can incorporate Sequel material into the game, the better, at least from a marketing standpoint.

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MarthWMaster said:

cleardave said:

So really, what makes the most sense to me, after Hoth is done, and we get Edge of Darkness, is that FFG just surprises us all with a really smart follow-up cycle. By the end of summer, when Hoth and Edge of Darkness is all completely out, our humble Core Set matches will be expanded to a lot of variability. The follow-up cycle may be a lead in to the multiplayer big box expansion the rulebook alludes to, and to be honest, even if mechanically it isn't addressed, there are just so many ideas from those movies to work with for another cycle that we'll be well into 2014 before the "movie material" could potentially be exhausted.

Jedi Training (with a Sith counterpart?)

Cloud City

Endor on the ground

Endor in space

…and then maybe some EU-centric cycle or box, with my money being on a Shadows of the Empire tie-in as the next largest and recognized "Civil War Era" tale to plunder for more cards.

I'd imagine the fifth cycle will either be movie-based (Tatooine, perhaps?) or set in the Prequel era, since by the end of it, Episode VII will have been released, and FFG will then know how much of the currently-canon EU they can work with. Depending on their relationship with LFL, they might even receive early access to film notes for the purposes of planning ahead, since sets for these games are usually ironed out months before beginning production. Certainly the sooner they can incorporate Sequel material into the game, the better, at least from a marketing standpoint.

To add to this, LFL has done exactly this in the past with Star Wars Miniatures (TFU figures came out a year before the game), and SWCCG (they released the Special Edition set and Episode I card before the movies came out). There is no reason to think they won't give out some information early to FFG.