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Reply To: Ruminations on the rerelease of Guildball and of The Old World

January 31, 2024 at 10:39 pm #1860909

limburger

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I’d say TWD may be different because IP licenses tend to have a limited lifespan. We don’t know what the exact options were for Mantic near the end of their initial license agreement and how those options have changed. I hope they simply got a better deal out of it that makes it more profitable for them as the core game is solid.

Guildball teams would not fit Bloodbowl, because the average team is character based as opposed to role-based. At best you’d get a few leader type models out of it, but even then the theme is different from BB. Going digital does have the advantage of not having to use valuable physical storage space.

The timing of the GW announcement at the same time as KoW launched can’t have been a coincidence.
It is weird to see how they hinted at a different set of factions back then compared to what was released now.
And it’s not the classic old world that the RTS games are set it … so there is no direct link to that either which doesn’t make sense if they wanted to take advantage of that (then again … GW didn’t appear to take advantage of Dawn of War back in the day either).

As such the reasons are probably : money, more money and even more money 😉