Wargaming2.0 2.0 … Bastion Revived?
February 28, 2011 by warzan
So news is gradually making its way to us on the fate of Bastion Studios, the only 'insider' (William Wallace) left has been keeping fans up to date with the slightly protracted process of dealing with the assets and intellectual property of the company.
William Wallace writes...
Good news! The proposition has been accepted and approved by the judge. Bastion 2.0 is born, with a new investor. There will be quite a lot of changes, but it can only be for the good of Ex illis! We will be finalizing our battle plans and we will come back to you on thursday about what will be Bastion 2.0
Now we had heard rumblings that the 'propositions' flying about had been quite erm... 'Technical and Complex' which i suppose is the way things are going in wargaming these days.
As regards the 'quite a lot of changes', well that remains to be seen but already the fans are posting their suggestions on the forums, however I suspect the changes will have to be quite radical for ExIllis to achieve its full potential, and does also lead us to wonder if it's just and investor or a takeover of sorts with an established company.
Certainly our hope is that a healthy established company has jumped in to shake things up! Certainly the exillis forums have been awash with new owner speculation (Mantic Games) and plain old wishful thinking (Games Workshop), we'll just have to wait until Thursday to have the mystery unraveled.
We will however be poking our nose in to see if we can find out a little bit more before then 😉
All in all it can only be a good thing, and we hope to see a triumphant return of the Bastion Team soon!
So don't go throwing out your Emissarius just yet 😉
BoW Warren
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Good to hear these guys worked something out! It would certainly be interesting if it is Mantic thats taking them over
Fingers crossed for them, not often you get something that different so really hope it works out for them.
All of us Ex illis guys and gals are over the moon, alot of our little group were losing hope and starting to sell their stuff up!
Now we can set about taking the miniature world by storm, bit by bit, and it does not matter how much hate we get! we are just happy to have our Miniature wargame back.
Radical changes was really need, lot of the fans could see most of the devs were nice people, but not the most business minded, now that we may have a strong business leadership we can get some where!
Hurray! This is good news. I really hope all goes well for them.
Huzzah !
What ever it may come to this is the growing pains that many a company have to experience. When a friend of me told me that in reality most new companies fail within the first 2 years of opening shop it made cense that Bastion is in the same boat as all companies. I really do hope that they beat the odds and grow all the more with the help of a well experienced investor in the corner.
Im glad to hear this. Like many gamers I think I stood back and waited to see what to make of ex illis without buying into it. If the news is to be believed I for one will definitely be looking into picking up some of the ex illis stuff, even if just to use as proxies. I hope this episode wont put potential gamers off and ex illis goes from strength to strength, if nothing else its a bit different and adds variety to our hobby.
I’m betting mantic. Mantic and BoW are like brothers and ‘We will however be poking our nose in to see if we can find out a little bit more before then’ just screams conspiracy.
Not wanting to start any conspiracy theories btw 😛
Mantic? I’m not sure, their Kings of war Range is going from strength to strength and theyre about to release Dwarf Kings Hold. Do Mantic really want to be investing in what is essentially still quite a risky venture and will be competing for Market share with their own minis? Just a few thoughts
Guys and girls Ex illis has a investor and now they are 100% debt free , best buy in now 😉
go see on the forums, bastion is there again^^
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