Reply To: Star Wars Armada is dead …… Sort of …..so what about X-wing and Legion ?

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I kinda agree and disagree with the above, agree in as much as you can free your hobby by not being bound to a ruleset.  Seen several Lardy varieties to play star wars games.  Only reason 40k minis are still in my collection is because I don’t see them as tied to 40k rules

 

Disagree that that Legion will be dropped, as it is according to some game charts a outselling all other AMG products.  Also they just preview an update of soft plastic early models into hard plastic with a expect release of 2025 onwards.  I am not even sure on Armada or x-wing, they have both received new rules development even if print and play.  Statement on Armada is clear, until further notice we are developing no new product, not sure how that is deceptive.  X-wing has gotten new stuff but to my mind it is nearly a done game, so new development will be limited unless there is a new plan.

I do think that the hobby has become about the new shiny, and marketing certainly plays into that.  However  that is because it works and a lot of the social media around the hobby is about the new thing.  So that is on the community a much as the companies

I do agree though that it is healthy to view a company, as a company, and not develop this love/hate thing it is all to easy to fall into.  Buy products that you personally see value in, avoid those that you don’t.  However, the ‘mainstream’ thing I am not sure is doing that, it feels more of a general big companies bad, regardless of what they offer.