The Future of X-Wing and Star Wars under Fantasy Flight Games

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**General Seric**

Really, most of the stuff you posted is extremely far fetched or downright illogical. Why would Disney "drown them in litigation fees and courtroom costs" when they are receiving a bundle of money from the licencing for FFG's successful Star Wars games? It really doesn't make sense, and seems like a lot of needless fear and panic.

Tamwulf wrote:

One of the reasons why Hasbro bought out, acquired, "rescued from Bankruptcy" Wizards of the Coast was it's desired expansion into the table top genre. WoTC is much more then "just a card company"- granted, they own "THE" card game- Magic: The Gathering, a card game that basically prints money. They also produce the Dungeon's and Dragons RPG- maybe you have heard of it?. WoTC has received many, many awards for it's games over the last 15 years.

Hasbro is not just a toy company. It's the largest board game company in the world. Chances are if you have played a board game in the last 10 years, it was a Hasbro board game.

If Wizards of the Coast wanted to make a Star Wars tabletop game, they could. They have the design teams, experience, and access to the Hasbro production lines to do it. Like I said, it's a money game, and I'm sure Disney/Hasbro are looking at all these licensees and making plans for them.

You know what else they used to do? Miniature games. They had at least 3 going at one time (Star Wars, D&D, and Dreamblade) and have since ended all of these games. Additionally, they used to have more major RPGs than just D&D, such as the Star Wars RPG, but have stopped those too. It would seem that all signs point to them trying to get away from tabletop gaming in general and focus almost entirely on card gaming.

Turnip Jedi wrote:
I really wouldn't worry about Disney letting Hasbro/WoTC have a go something Star Wars related, last time they tried they turned out a bunch of mindcrushingly terrible CCG's / other games that tanked so hard they don't even pretend to remember them

They weren't all failures; the Star Wars Miniature Game was actually quite successful for some time.

**General Seric**

Peregrine wrote:
General Seric wrote:
You know what else they used to do? Miniature games. They had at least 3 going at one time (Star Wars, D&D, and Dreamblade) and have since ended all of these games. Additionally, they used to have more major RPGs than just D&D, such as the Star Wars RPG, but have stopped those too. It would seem that all signs point to them trying to get away from tabletop gaming in general and focus almost entirely on card gaming.

This isn't a reflection of WOTC's choices. They ended their Star Wars games (both the miniatures and RPG) because Lucaswhatever demanded way too much money to renew it*, and WOTC/Hasbro couldn't afford to meet their demands. And the D&D miniatures game, which was intended to go with 4th edition D&D, wasn't very successful. So yeah, they got rid of some products that didn't work out for whatever reasons, but they're still keeping D&D as a core product and could very easily decide to launch another tabletop game if there's a good opportunity.

*Apparently this happened with more than just WOTC, and was something people were worried about with FFG before Disney bought everything.

I was more pointing to the fact that they haven't even made an attempt at all recently in the area of miniatures, as compared to in the past. I would think if they were serious about getting their foot in the tabletop market, they would at least have some attempt in the many years since they discontinued the D&D Miniatures Game (2010), but there has been absolutely no sign of any, which to me points to them not having a real interest in the market.

**General Seric**

Also, FFG is not going to be bought, they just had a merger with a huge European game distributor, Asmodee Group:

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2014/11/17/fantasy-flight-games-to-merge-into-the-asmodee-group-tm/

Even if this hadn't happened, they are not a public company, so no one can simply "buy" them, they would have to decide to sell.