Reply To: The IX Age – Why/Why Not and so on

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Point taken – but i also completely disagree.

a game lives and died by it being supported by a company that created. It gives an official stance, structure and final say one way or another.

There are many games that are played (especially in the historical world) that have little to no company backing.

Aside from profit, what is the difference between “too fat lardies” line of games and T9A? Both make only rules, both rely on others for miniatures. Too fat lardies make profit, T9A puts it up for free – both strive to make a “good” game liked by their audience.

without a business or company supporting it then it is destined to not be propped up strongly enough to instill confidence in gamers, shops and distributors for it to take off.

Well, being supported by a company wasnt enough to keep whfb, epic 40k, older LOTR games, gothic, warmaster, etc.. Alive. If anything, being supported by a company was *the* reason those games died – the profit motive killed them. None of it had anything to do with how good or fun or popular a game it was…it was about turning a profit.

Something maintained by a pool of passionate people who’s only concern is the end product (with profit motive removed) instills far more confidence in me than slmething that could disappear tomorrow if it fails to appease shareholders or profit motives.

Again, GW, warlord, wotc, and others have all gleefully axed things in the past – “company backed legitimacy” is just a marketing tool meamt to encourage you to buy a product instead of finding an alternate – none of it actually impacts the quality of the product.

Fwiw – i have no issues with the profit motive. But i just find that for our hobby, a profitable game is not always “good” and a good game is not always profitable.

This is probably due to my experience in historicals where the break between rules and minis is commonplace – and free online rules/mods are widely accepted as valid products.

Thats said, has anyone thats posted played t9a recently (last year?) Or seen the latest works released?