Reply To: First impressions vs sustainability. Are looks more important than rules?

[onlyonepinman]

It depends on the business model of the company making the game.  Battletech has been around a long time, but how many owners has it had?  As long lived as it is,  I don’t think it’s really a good example of success.

If all you do is publish rules, as many historical companies do, then you need those rules to be excellent because they are your product.   Once you get into the fantasy realm, you find quite often the rules are the vehicle for selling miniatures and if you operate in that space, you need a constant stream of new miniatures in order for the game to survive.  The miniatures are the  bulk of the income that support the company that make them, no company,  no game.

If we want to put it into the context of Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, I think it’s going to struggle purely because the game relies quite heavily on the films to support it.  The films reached peak popularity 20 years ago.   Modern cinema is really struggling which is going to restrict the number of films made and limit their impact on growth of the fanbase.  So as good as the MESBG range has been over the years,  it faces a highly uncertain future

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by onlyonepinman.