Reply To: Ruminations on the rerelease of Guildball and of The Old World

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The old world I can understand. The demand of people still playing fantasy, the video games have created a new fan base for that setting. You have a lot of people who played it the first time around getting to that point where they have money to spend. You can see the demand in place at this point in time. GW have been smart to take the original system but update the rules and concept to fit into a 2024 game.

Guildball is a curious one that I did not see coming back. It was really popular at one point had a lot of backing by the people playing a great community support. However the company at the end stopped supporting long before its death, the game was unbalance, it was not a lot of fun to play. It killed the community off long before it finally ended. You can look at the massive following blood bowl has at the moment and think it could do well. However you dont see much demand for it from the old fans on social media.

I do wonder if the demand is really for guildball or if this is really just selling STL’s files for people who want use them in bloodbowl?

Mantic’s Walking Dead is a complete puzzle to me. The game only died in March 2023 with a massive fire sales on the game and models to get rid before the IP license expired. They have brought it back to life in less than a year. I struggle to understand how the conditions for that game has changed that the demand that did not exist 9 months ago is now back ?

I can only assume Mantic either the got a msaaive discount to take the License again or maybe the model has changed now they are doing STL’s. Maybe the thought is digital route and creating models for it monthly to add to the growing porfilio is the new business model ?

It is interesting you have 3 different games coming back in various different states and business positions how they will all fair once we are 6 months down the track with each game.