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When I started the thread I stated that it wasn’t a dig at BoW and their coverage, it’s more how (and why) the games just seemed to disappear from ALL the gaming news sites after TT Combat purchased the two game systems (especially compared to their more high profile we saw when the games were still ownership of Hawk Wargames).
We DO often see coverage of Carnevale and even Rumbleslam across various news sites, but Dropzone and Dropfleet just seemed to disappear (and I was wondering why this was). I wasn’t sure if the games just fell out of favour, or if newer game systems occupying similar genres had effectively “replaced” them in gaming circles.
But I wasn’t trying to infer that BoW were being lacking in their news coverage (and as other have pointed out GW news items do seem to swamp out all other coverage, but then we don’t see how many “clicks” (and revenue) certain companies news articles trigger (and at the end of the day BoW needs to keep paying the wages and keeping all the servers up and running)).
So I was more wondering about how and why both Dropfleet and Dropzone just seemed to disappear, why the hype and enthusiasm faded when the games weren’t “dead” and TT Combat continued to support the game with new minis etc. As I was considering buying into the games I was worried if I was getting into a game where no-one played it anymore (or if the lack of news coverage just gave that impression). From the posts here it seems for the most part the games in gamers collections have for now perhaps been consigned to storage boxes under the games tables and even though many seemed to enjoy the games for the most part it seems that the playerbase has perhaps moved on (and perhaps this might be due to the perception that the games were “dead” and most casual players weren’t aware new releases continued to be made (which might have triggered more interest).
Still it might be interesting to see if anyone here might dig out the games from storage, blow of the dust and get a game in to see how it’s aged over the years and if that old enthusiasm for the games might come to the fore again
