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Weekender XLBS: Have Game Companies Lost Their Focus?
October 14, 2018 by lloyd
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Interesting topic. I think the majority of games companies are actually pretty focused on there main games and while you praised games workshop, I actually think they are the worst culprit of the shotgun approach to games closely followed by warlord.
You mentioned corvus belli with infinity but never mentioned wyrd with malifaux, privateer press with warmachine/hordes or gct studios with bushido. Those companies have consistently released poducts for the main game they produce.
While GW has released shadow war armageddon, necromunda, kill team, speed freeks, titanicus, deathwatch overkill, gorechosen, renegade, shadespire/nightvault, both horus heresy games, both warhammer quests and released new editions for both it’s core games.
Warlord are in a similar place with bolt action, black powder, pike & shotte and hail caesar being the core games but also releasing doctor who, blood red skies, konflikt 47, test of honour, project z, strontium dog.
No other company rising to the level of games workshop has quite a number of factors that can be discussed and quite a few other people posted about them so I won’t go over those too. I think a major factor is people’s investment in time/money and ability to get a game in gw’s systems. I have known many people to stick with 40k even though it was evident they did not enjoy playing the game as they had poured so much time and money into it and felt leaving the game would be a loss of that investment.