Death knell of Guildball

So I'm getting five things from this. Noticed it last night.

1: Shame. Some of the miniatures were really nice (especially some of the new teams they've been putting out lately).
2: They basically didn't like the way the meta was shaping up. It was too advantageous for the tournament players to ignore the ball and basically "not play football" but do other things for victory points instead. Lots of cautious positioning and hanging just outside range dancing around each other.
3: They must be making enough money from their other games (Dark Souls board game, Godtear, Resident Evil board games etc) to think they can manage without needing Guild Ball to lean on as their main product line any more. Perhaps it's been overtaken by some of their other lines.
4: This is suspiciously close to the announcement of the new season of Blood Bowl. Maybe they didn't fancy the competition.
5: Why this month? Why couldn't it be next month when I'll have more money?

Okay,

so there's a rumour doing the rounds that a private equity firm bought a load of shares in steamforged and flooded the board with their people (then rebranded their own company so it looked like Steamforged Games still owned Steamforged Games). These private equity people are only interested in the CMON model of pumping out board games (preferably with kickstarter funding), not maintaining much in the long term, then gutting the company and moving on when they're done. Guild Ball wasn't bringing in the numbers that they wanted so it got killed off even 'though the company founders who created it really wanted to keep it going for the last half a season.

That being said they've got Ian Livingstone on the board of directors and some other directors with a heavy backing in the gaming industry who're clearly interested in putting out good quality stuff. It's more this undercover hostile takeover that appears to be the problem.

Yh , from hat raff posted , its morea  a death at corporate level , rasther  maybe sales ( although i dont know orr monitor DB really)

But as to  Dreadball
Ive got dreadball and most of season one, ( then stopped collecting)
I dont know why
Possibly, if ima play a fantasy (scifi) football game, then why dont i play BB ( which i know i like)
No one else displayed  an inklingof interest to play it, ( but again BB got  sparks)
DB are/were all " restic" , and its kinda become a hated product ( personally), its liek a worse FW resin ype thing .
(its harder to  remov mold lines and harder to "bend back" with hot water )

 DB doesnt  hold its value, BB can almost get money back ,if not  painted with fingers


I  could never shift teh sealed GB set with DC-mat, both brand new never used,
but anything BB  went for near asking.

maybe its a perception thing, no idea.

ive always wanted to   support the small(er) guys (sexist) , but theres hardly any to none interest.

The new members we are gettign are for a GW game.


Example,  just deleting emails and found  one to  "the woods" game  maker, i bought the game to try ans support the project, (better than backing a kicker to saupport a game) , but no one has ever mentioned it, ive never  brought up the subject,  but now the game is kinda dead to me , all interest gone
Given teh choice of playing a woods game or a 28mm Nap game and teh Nap win every time

So i think its very difficult to get a " new"/small game to be supported/ played

there is more, but its toooooo     loooooong now

jm2pw