| From: | Bull bull@*******.net |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Decipher + FASA |
| Date: | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 04:44:23 -0400 (EDT) |
>Well.. I think the URL really explains it all.
>
>http://www.decipher.com/fasapressrelease.html
>
Hmmmm...
It's been about 6 hours since I read this, and I talked about it with some
of the guys on IRC, and I'm still not sure hoe to react.
On one hand, FASA is being sold. And man, did this come out of the blue.
I don't know what this will mean. Sure, at the moment it seems that the
folks at FASA will retain control of their stuff, just being part of the
larger whole, but... Will this last? What happens when later on Decipher
decides that they want to do something different with Shadowrun than the SR
crew does?
On the other, if it's more of a merger, rather than a takeoever/buyout...
It could be for the greater good. We have a company capable of putting out
a card game that still sells. Of course, this means that the new SR CCG
will have 4 versions of Argent and Stryper, and will feature cards like
"Never trust a dragon"< Conserve Ammo", and a card for every other
cliched
quote ever done in SR. :] But, by the same token, we have a company that
has Miniatures, Card Games, Role Playing games, Board Games, and Novels all
under their belt, and doing all of them successfully at the same time
(hopefully). And we've potentially got a company that can take on WOTC and
hold there own.
That is, if they don;t become another WOTC.
One of the things that has turned me into the FASA Fanboy you see before
you is that everyone at FASA is really cool. They're a bunch of gamers who
don;t mind having lunch with some schmuck fanboys who stumbled across them
at the food court during Gen Con. Hell, Mike even made us playtesters
during that fateful exchange :]
What happens if the corporate attitude takes them? In the early days,
Magic was a lot of fun because everyone involved was having fun with it.
Now it's a business. And while the business is still to let people have
fun, it's also highly money driven. And anyone who's been doing it since
the beginning can tell that the "magic" has gone ouit of it. It's a job
for these guys now, not a hobby that's making money. That lots of poeple
enjoy.
So here's hoping that the new FASA-Decipher merger becomes something good,
and that they use their powers to benifit gamer-kind, rather than turning
to evil :]
Bull -- Where do we go from here?
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