That shift to V2 was catastrophic in my area

@@E_Platypus_Unum v2 was catastrophic everywhere. It was a huge culture shock for the casual players, who never before were faced by a 'new edition' in a tabletop game, with the transition very poorly communicated by FFG. It was also a couple years too early for an app-driven game. FFG were the first big company with a popular big game to have their points and army building in an app. There was A LOT of pushback to that at the time. Ironic given how nowadays, cloud-updated points and an app are becoming the industry standard... In some ways, FFG was ahead of the curve with X-Wing 2.

It was the scale increase that did it for me

Totally this. Cut everything that isn't generating money. The costs to produce Xwing and Armada minis must be an order of magnitude more than injection molded plastic.

IKR. Games Workshop and Warhammer are like the Blizzard and World of Warcraft of tabletop. A company that pioneered a unique business model and, through a confluence of coincidences and being in the right place at the right time in history, became a juggernaut of the industry, with hopeful copycats rising up and falling over decades.

@@toferkrz946 i really don't think another company can do what they did. They do plenty of heinous stuff; if they were more pro-consumer, I feel like they'd capture the market entirely. But all that being said, they're crazy successful relative to everyone else.

It pays to basically be first on the market. Also with it being the 80s they didn't get their asses sued off with all the content they stole.

Legion was to me the fourth Star Wars infantry game (WEG' Minitures Battles and WoTC's CMG) and the second one from Fantasy Flight (after Imperial Assault). Shatterpoint as the fifth has the problem it wants me to buy all the figures again in a different scale. And I look at all the Storm troopers and Vaders I already have.

AT-43, Starship Troopers, Battlefleet Gothic, Warmachine, and Uncharted Seas player here...

@@kennethfharkin I feel you on AT-43...

static objectives ruined it for many people. They were clearly applying some weirdo logic. Pushing for hero-wing killed it to many people who liked to play squaddrons of generics. I'm neutral in the loadout rules (i can see that it could be made work it, even in 1.0 chassis if you really focus on balancing) and the initiative rules. The game having rotating formats as a copying mechanism for not having product stock, bad too

@@pedrojusticeabsolutely - I participated in the only Worlds that was with the true 2.0 rule set. I flew, wait for it, 2 named guys and 3 generics. Nuking the generic option was among the dumbest choices AMG did. The rotating format wasn’t great, but I sort of understood because the ability to reprint that many ships at once would have been very difficult to pull off. I think it could have been done in waves, similar to how they restocked 1.0 content, just repackaging them in 2.0 with some conversion kit cards. The loadout was objectively bad. It forced whombo combo. You were at a serious disadvantage if you didn’t max your loadout, but then you’d need to remember a billion possible triggers. I remember trying to play one game of 2.5 to give it a fair shake and had too many cards to fit on my side of the game mat. I guarantee I missed a lot of triggers. We played 3 turns of the game, and it took 2 hours. Terrible feeling, compared to playing a game to completion in 60-90 minutes

I would say its not bad, we have a little community that meets up a couple times a month and plays alpha strike. The Battletech boxes are sell at quiet but decent clip. Its not massive but I don't have to do much work. I bring in modest amounts of new releases and it just does its thing.

Seems to be the case

It's like, the more you love something...the more is slips away? Or something. Tbh just keep playing the game you love

The card stock would have had a massive impact on the price.

it didnt help at all that AMG pushed the game to Herowing instead of letting generics and "make your own pilot" have a chance

Already scraping the bottom of the content barrel in set two. Like the video stated: everyone gets excited for the Luke and Vader cards, not so much for Finn and Rose.

yes but after the first couple hundred.. casual customers have no idea what they are looking at

@@lordsofwargamesandhobbies3905 you mean for x wing? Much smaller than a few 100

Cheeky.