Fantasy Flight Announces End Date For Sales Of Games Workshop Products
February 16, 2017 by deltagamegirl22
Fantasy Flight Games dropped a nice reminder out there today that gamers have until February 28th to make any last minute orders for games made in conjunction with Games Workshop.
Better check your wish list and see about snagging any of your favourites before they're gone, including any of the Warhammer titles and games like Fury of Dracula (which we snagged the last of from our FLGS recently).
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oah Talisman the first GW game I owned … god I loved that game
So why is Fantasy Flight dumping GW?
I think it’s more that GW is parting ways with Fantast Flight. Between RuneWars and the last edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay doing terribly, they might have reason.
I don’t think the sales of WFRP would have anything to do with it from GWs side. As long as they get their licence fee, the other companies sales would be irrelevant.
RuneWars, on the other hand, combined with the success of X-Wing probably rang a few bells in the GW Kremlin.
It probably has less to do with anything FFG is doing, and more to do with Games Workshop’s current move towards producing (or reproducing) board games. They licensed FFG to produce the games that they weren’t interested in doing (presumably, they thought that they wouldn’t be able to make a significant profit off of those games). They’ll probably create their own new edition of Talisman before long. Fury of Dracula is probably gone forever. I’m not sure where properties that used the license but were completely developed by FFG would end up (the Space Hulk and Blood Bowl card games,… Read more »
Asmodee now owns FFG.
Games Workshop ended their licensing agreements with them. Don’t know if we ever got the full low down but it’s probably as a result of the fact that they are releasing Rune Wars and part of the agreement was that they would not produce a product that directly competed with GW which Rune Wars does.
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Where did you hear that it was GW who ended the agreement? I haven’t seen either side comment on it apart from the official statement by FFG which didn’t say either way. What did I miss? 🙂
We are mostly in the dark about it. However, FFG was behaving as though the license would be renewed (their organized play was set to go on longer when they announced that Again, I suspect that it is GW wanting to produce their own board games and get a much larger slice of the pie. -FFG only had to stay away from producing GW licensed minis in gaming scale. They had plenty of non-GW related minis that they produced during their time with GW (they had Anima Tactics and Dust for a while- as well as quite a few non-GW… Read more »
They knew long before the announcement that they weren’t renewing the license. Playtesting on Conquest stopped months earlier yet they publicly pretended that Conquest would be in the 2017 Words when they knew it wouldn’t.
In terms of boardgames, GW never licensed out the rights to do miniatures boardgames. Nothing they’re releasing now overlapped with FFG’s license and nor did they consider the types of boardgames FFG were doing as competition. They absoltely did, however, have an issue with X-Wing and Imperial Assault. They even imposed changes on IA.
I’m sure I’d read somewhere it was GW that had ended it. I actually thought it was you who’d posted it – however I hate trying to search forums for old posts so just trusted to memory. Maybe I’m just not remembering something correctly.
Dakka scuttlebutt is that GW didn’t like FFG’s RuneWars Miniature Game. My guess is that FFG’s busy making money with the Star Wars IP, including the new Star Wars Destiny (?) collectible dice game. FFG’s certainly putting out quite a bit of non-GW content. Meanwhile, GW is bringing back Blood Bowl and announced a Warhammer Quest standalone expansion. I don’t think they need each other anymore, and, for all we know, the FFG games were there to see if there was a demand for GW-IP games.
Excellent news, Maybe Fantasy Flight games can get on with making a Star Wars mass battle wargame.
Just make it 15 or 20mm
No way- I want some 35mm beauties to paint.
No go small so we can get AT-AT’S on the table
I think they will test the water with Rune Wars and if they can make it work, they will do Star Wars. While it wasn’t strictly a proving ground, they certainly took their experience from two iterations of Descent into Imperial Assault so I wouldn’t be surprised if they do so again.
This was something mentioned by Warren in a previous weekender, that FFG do want to do a Star Wars mass combat system, but GW said they couldn’t whilst in an agreement with them. Therefore until March 1st there couldn’t be anything mentioned by FFG that states, implies or otherwise ascertain that they are going to be doing that.,or its breach of contract I imagine and a ticket to suesville. I imagine if not before if coming this year there will be something at Gen Con, same as they show cased the ISD for Armada a few years ago. I’d say… Read more »
I need two bloody decks to finish Conquest and of course those are out of stock. About 90% of the range is still there.
I wanted to get into Conquest but when I first heard that FFG won’t be supporting it anymore I lost reason to get into it. History has repeated itself as same happened to me with Invasion.
I wish both companies well on their endeavors. I must give FFG credit for their 40k work, they gave the minor alien races of 40k a lot of new backround and artwork, really fleshing the universe out in ways GW never did. My only concern is that that is the end of that era, I do hope GW pick up some of the FFG 40k xenos, as some of them are really up my street like the Slaugth and they even created new backround and art for my favourite 40k xenos the Enslavers. I’d recomend anyone read up about the… Read more »
My guess is now that GW is looking to do more in the board game market, having FFG licensed to use their IP for board games no longer makes sense.
I’ve heard that GW already have another company lined up for their RPGs. I’d like to think that they might do it with some of the board and card games too. I know they were all created with FFG but isn’t there the possibility that when the licenses were first handed over there were agreements made over the ownership of the IPs should things come to an end? Maybe just wishful thinking on my part. As for the issue over GW wanting to do their own board games, I’m still finding that hard to swallow. Even the most complex FFG… Read more »