From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Bull) |
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Subject: | Minis, Sales, and the final numbers... |
Date: | Sat Jan 27 15:55:01 2001 |
well wishes of most of us. For those of you that expressed your concern
for his future, he says Thank You.
Anyways, we talked for a bit, and he gave me the breakdown of how sales
were doing for FASA at the end there. (And sorry if this was already
posted by someone else. 'I'm only skimming the threads lightly at this
point.)
Shadowrun was making money. A lot of money. More money than any other
game line has ever made. (Gee, AE, I guess FASA was REALLY going in the
wrong direction with SR nd totally screwing it up, eh?).
Battletech was breaking even, and that only because of Miniatures sales and
licensing (ie, the Computer game).
Vor was just under the redline, once again mostly because of the Miniatures
sales. The "paper" end of it was losing money.
Crucible and Crimson Skies have been losing money since day one. The
Miniatures side was making some money, but not enough to comp for the big
losses on the paper side.
Unfortunately, overall, they couldn't keep up in the end...
The funny thing is, while the Mini's lines did, indeed, kill FASA... It
wasn't the Miniatures themselves. <shurg> Partha probably would have been
doing well had they been a seperate entity...
Bull