2 things to note - FFG doesn’t own AMG - I think there might be some confusion there. They are 2 separate companies both under asmodeee. 2nd - I’ll agree that AMG likely didn’t want this to happen, at least not now - because they did still have things like the gunboats in the queue and a rumored points update in the queue for Armada - this was clearly a directive from Asmodee, and likely a result of the Embracer group fiasco - but they never really had the resources to do proper development for these games. I think the best case would be for a studio like FFG, Renegade, or wizkids (who currently have former x-wing/Armada devs on staff) to take the reins with some familiar expertise.

It’s dead Jim. (Just ordered 2.0 updates, long live X-Wing!)

Just to restate it, this was my breakdown of how AMG has behaved as a business so far: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbhzi5OF16ywfaM.htmlsi=gVjsLV01m3l72veI - I still stand by almost all of what I said, with the exception of the big releases coming out. I still honestly think that AMG had a ton of development on deck, but wasn't able to get past some combination of production hurdles, red tape, and/or corporate obstacles from multiple levels up the chain.

You are far too kind to AMG. They were, at best, indifferent caretakers who did the minimum and made changes no one wanted with 2.5 seemingly as an FU to the community. The community is terrific so the game will continue! On that, we agree. Thanks for posting this.

I might be off here, but I believe that 2.0 was providing the stakeholders with good money and players played the game in big numbers. After takeover by AMG and introduction new rules, playerbase dropped to 50% and never got bigger numbers. My look is the game has been slowly dying also thanks to AMG's design team.

😂 ‘nothing is over, nothing!!!’ J.J. Rambo I’m sure ‘we’ will survive. Terribly sad AMG wasn’t up to the task, Shatterpoint, Legion, and MCP are just too important!

Great video. Love the x-wing community and glad it's still thriving. Am a 1.0 player and don't plan to change. Have fun guys. 👍

I feel free.

Thank you for this video, your channel overall and your measured, positive, hopeful views for X-Wing. "I've been in this fight since 2012", I will keep my (way-too-complete) collection and keep playing/flying.

It’s a sad day and I stayed with 1st edition and will keep those ships and ability to play it going. I have to say though I believe AMG didn’t care for x wing or armada. No new product and no news , leads to a dead game , then they shut it down because it wouldn’t sell. Always going to be awful people and threatening death over a game is beyond stupid but this is the world we have now. People don’t talk correctly to each other and are awful to one another and it’s not just a Star Wars thing or even a game thing it’s a people are too free to be a holes to each other thing.

You got a great channel here I hope your one of the voices keeping X-wing going after the AMG anouncment.

I have appreciated your optimism over the last few months and had hopes myself that better times were coming.... however, I have to now completely disagree with you about AMG as a company. Full disclosure, they did just block me on twitter after I made a couple negative comments, but I had already stated I thought that they were a horrible company before that. Their lack of communication, horrible marketing, community engagement, and lack of respect for their players has left a very bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths. I have really enjoyed everything FFG has done to promote, stream, tease, and make roadmaps from their products. I was at Adepticon the last couple years, I did not enjoy Shatterpoint, I dabbled in MCP for a bit but not sure how long the life of that game has left selling the same heroes over and over... I thought about going big into Legion, but will not support this company any longer. If you have not tried it already, Star Wars Unlimited is really fun with a bright future for the foreseeable future. There was so many other options AMG could have done instead of the way they handled this and continue to operate.

The Internet as a whole has grown increasingly more toxic over the years and I can definitely point to a specific political demographic as to part of the reason why. Star Wars online especially has grown vitriolic, so I understand AMG's stance to protect its staff. I firmly believe they did their best with the resources they had available. I've seen the team in person and their passion was undeniable. While angry people online certainly haven't helped, I can only surmise that Pandemic + Asmodee business realities/choices = Death of X-Wing/Armada. I'm very frustrated by this cos I was finally going to make the jump to Clone Wars factions in X-Wing but with my own money issues right now I don't know how much I'll be able to get in the UK before it's all gone. I hope one day, X-Wing is able to make a return, that it doesn't stay dead forever when there was so much potential for the game to be balanced, for Epic ships to be updated and the game to hit its stride. I speculate we'll only learn of its possible continuation after this Asmodee farewell tour.

I think your third option is the hardest ,as to revisit X-Wing at a later time will not work. This is because most people are going to dump all their ships and walk away, why is beyond me, but mostly true. I will be playing indefinity and will keep all my ships. I still think with the last actual ships we got was in 2022 and when the plastic ships stopped, thats when a new sustainable game started development and thats why we have not gotten new ships. When SW Destiny was cancelled we learned that they were already working on SW Unlimited which took 3 years to get to the table. Perhaps we are in this silent production lull and in a year or so we will get a big Gencon style announcement of a reimagined new space game. There has never NOT been a SW space game and not having hurts the SW gaming IP imo. Space combat is a core part of the SW story and needs something like it on a tabletop. Hope is all we have. Thx for your positive content.

I'M SO SAD😭 X-Wing is literally my favorite board why did FFG had to sell it i don't understand... Guess it's time to buy literally every single expansion :( Long live X-Wing!

I went HARD into x-wing and armada these last 3 weeks 😂

well... oh well, i guess

Credit where due, that apology to crabs was fair. I still don't know why anyone still follows your content when after all the times it's been explained by so many others that FFG does not own AMG, and had no part in this decision. That was just so weird to see anyone in content creation make that false claim so convinced of themselves who should really know better. 🙄🤦

The toxic Armada community on Facebook that often times in my opinion said many vile things made me leave the FB community all together...

BWWAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

AMG's communication was NEVER good. it was painfully obvious they were in over their heads all along and this was always dead once they took the reigns. you've been an AMG apologist all along, time to finally your head out mate. as you said, everyone is successful selling SW except AMG somehow.