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August 10, 2020 at 3:00 pm #1557441

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Sorry to jump in so soon after the last post. After commodorerob put up a notice about Steamforged Games putting a notice that GuildBall would be ended.

I got a Butcher’s Guild set up to play around with that when I could. Reading through it makes sense as far as a business decision from The ‘Rona impact but I think what might be more important for discusion is the emotional reaction to that and as a mini hobbyist where the industry is headed.

I caught myself, after reading the news, from buying any teams/figures frok my fear of missing out on any minis that I’d never get a chance to own. I told myself that games die off and that I wasn’t invested enough or have enough gaming capability to justify the purchase. It was a cost not worth the price with space taken up and I am doing well to paint what I have already (when I get through commission work).

As I put out there in the initial thread of the announcement I was wondering if this was the first big sign that financial impact is getting “bigger” companies. We’ve seen smaller developers out there be smacked about and the Indie of the Week has probably been a godsend from OTT to shine light on people. I think we be should be ready to see contractions from other products like Monsterocalypse (just first thought of random game).

Dammit, terminal normality got the thread.