Where has Myth Gone

[d0g5t4r 164xp 0]

To say I love Myth is an understatement. So I went searching for journeyman items as I know the KS has been sent to it’s supporters. Now alas I was met with the bad new that Megacon no longer is supporting it…..why…….when? So I went to a site it directed me to and found nothing. Does this mean this great game is dead? Can anyone shed some light on this.

[dekinrie 1460xp 0]

Im sure there was an article on the site, basically they’d ran out of money on the kickstarter and where looking to be bought over that was something like a year ago

[phaidknott 7023xp 0]

Company died the death of the over promised KS. Alas happens too often these days, perhaps there’s something to be said for a steady output (akin to companies like Warlord) vs KS schemes funding a massive amount of releases in one go and giving a “flashpan” support (like some companies that could be mentioned).

I “think” someone bought the rights to Myth (https://www.ulisses-us.com/) but if they have they haven’t done anything with it.

 

[dawfyddParticipant 11926xp 0]

I believe they have been brought out but there has been no announcement as of yet from the new owners. I’ll be honest though I washed my hands of Myth a long time ago but for those who have kept faith I hope the game gets a new lease of life

[orlandothetechnicolouredParticipant 4380xp 0]

Ullisses NA are apparently the new owners of both Myth: Journeyman  and the earlier Myth: Dark Frontier announced to ks backers around august last year after a very long period (a year+ I thing) when we knew Megacon were not going to be able to fulfil the KS and were negociating for buyers to take over, with Megacon being retained as contracted designers  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/megacongames/myth-journeyman/posts/2275345

Subsequent to that at least some of the Myth: Journeyman KS stuff did ship but there’s still a lot outstanding, and a month after the update was posted somebody from Ullusses NA posted in the comments that the sale was actually still being finalised so something odd was going on

I think things will eventually be sorted out (after all Ullisese NA has paid money for the property), but it’s going to take a lot longer than you’d want

 

[hephestoParticipant 880xp 0]

They made a bunch of cool games / ruleset, but were utterly inept at running the production side of things. They’ve essentially sold on the entire Myth ‘setting’ to Ullises NA, but would supposedly be involved in future developments.

No idea what this will mean at the end of the day as all we have is the formal announcement from August last year on the last Myth Kickstarter. Nothing since……..

__________________________________________________________

This is Ian Starcher, Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer for Ulisses North America.

I wanted to reach out to all of you to let you know that there is in fact an agreement for Ulisses acquiring Myth and Myth: Dark Frontier. MERCS, LLC and Ulisses have worked everything out, no more negotiations, everyone’s happy. There are some niggly details that come with transferring Intellectual Property, trademarks, etc. that can drag out longer than desired by anyone, but they are important. Lawyers get paid by the quarter-hour.

However, I didn’t want any more time to pass for you to hear some sort of announcement from Ulisses. You deserve to be kept abreast of all goings on. I will be making a more grand public announcement soon, but like I said I didn’t want to make you the backers to wait any longer for some assurance this is a real thing.

One of the things I’m very happy about is that all conversations between Megacon Games and Ulisses was driven by the principle “What’s best for the backers”. That is Ulisses first, most pressing focus.

Who’s Ulisses North America?

Ulisses North America, based in Nevada, is the sister company of Ulisses Spiele out of Germany. Combined Ulisses supports with print products more RPGs than any other company in the world. In addition, we’ve worked with a number of board games and miniatures games. Ulisses has earned a reputation for very high-quality products as well as numerous awards and nominations in the arena of game excellence.

Things are going to be better.

We’ve already dedicated a lot of resources to make you happy backers (more on that soon, I promise). We already have put in place staff dedicated to communications and customer service for YOU specifically, the backers of the Myth. There will be a FAQ and rolling updates page on our website dedicated to Myth and another for Myth: Dark Frontier. Everything moving forward will be timely. Thank you for your patience.

If Ulisses’ investing and supporting the Myth franchise is wise or foolish is really determined by you, the fans. Our gamble is that if we earn your respect, we may earn your business in the future for more Myth goodness.

Stay tuned. There’s a lot more coming your way and soon.

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