Reply To: Changes coming to Warlord's support for exisiting games

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> Warlord is currently running with 15+ game systems and a need to “rationalise” their focus to support their core games (he also commented the GW is worth 3 BILLION on the stock market and only supports two major games systems and their spin offs).

This is why I avoid “lifestyle” games except from companies I *know* will continue to support their product. And that’s a short list, such as GW’s 40K, WotC’s Magic the Gathering, and PEG’s Doomtown:Reloaded. Another company had only three space miniature games before dropping support. Conversely, large companies like FFG (and CMON) regularly releases lifestyle games (both miniatures and card) then drops whatever doesn’t sell, leaving customers with hundreds of dollars of purchases.

So either a small company spreads itself too thin and drops a game line, or a big company drops game lines that don’t have as high a ROI as their other game lines. I don’t find it *too* hard to find a company that will take on the commitment to support that one (or even two) “lifestyle” games (hint: they have no other games or similar game lines), thankfully.