Asmodee Exec Throws Dart At Board

Lands on Ystari/Pearl games. Whose next? Will there be anyone left? Will those three multi-armed dancing squares devour us all?

Next?

Hopefully zman/filosophia. The management can't get any worse since filosophia took over.

As for their devouring of assets, normally I'm against and it still somewhat am. But in this regard I'm not worried in the short term of 1-10 years.

Your choices by this time next year:

1) Asmodee
2) Kickstarter

I'll choose option 1.

Rio Grande still exists, but is shrinking. Ummmm, Plaid Hat? Gale Force 9? This is getting like pro wrestling. WWE and then all the other indie promotions.

Colorcrayons wrote: Hopefully zman/filosophia. The management can't get any worse since filosophia took over.

I have a lot of love for Zman himself and they are still making solid games, but he has got to be rethinking branding the company with his own brand name now that filosophia is in charge.

I hope they inhale Asmadi so we never have to see their graphic design again.

Oh, but I would miss people trying to justify/validate that homely ass shit..."well, I rather like the artwork"...says a man in a tattered "all over red dragon" T-shirt with a fanny pack.

Also, are the BGGers going to be calling it "Borgmodee" or "Asmoborg"?

Facinating information in here from the Asmodee investor report:
boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/38140/more-as...s-connection-asmodee

Asmodee Revenue was $200m Euros
FFG moved 1.39m units of XWing which I assume is across the entire product line (in 2013 alone)
FFG had a top line of $40.2m last year
Arkham moved 338k units in 2013
Small World moved 120k units
Days of Wonder with a pretty limited library of games had a top line of $18.8m

338,000 Arkham Horror units in 2013? That's a very big number. Granted this is to shareholders, so they may be counting replacement counters as a "unit". Was there an expansion released in 2013?

Nope... but Arkham Horror is one of those games that has gotten out of the gamer niche and into the "nerd" niche, in my experience

Sagrilarus wrote: 338,000 Arkham Horror units in 2013? That's a very big number. Granted this is to shareholders, so they may be counting replacement counters as a "unit". Was there an expansion released in 2013?

That's an insane number. Maybe they're counting Eldritch Horror and Elder Signs? Or the LCG too? That might boost numbers by quite a bit.

It's a summary sheet for shareholders. This is the slide in question --



The bullet points on the right seem to be addressing "Arkham Horror" as a licensed line (which it probably isn't) which would include everything. It's peered with Star Wars, Android and Game of Thrones.

Ah, that would make sense. Yeah, so that would be everything with the Call of Cthulu license they sell.

Yeah, it is a tough one to figure out.
They do say "In-house universes like Arkham and Android".
And with them showing Netrunner as the Android example I'd guess that Arkham would include Eldritch and Elder Sign. And A Game of Thrones would also include the LCG, the little 2-player game, the one that was in Target (and soon forgotten) and the boardgame.

EDIT: The more I look at it, that has to be sales figures for the lines. So Arkham would be everything Arkham related including things like the prepainted minis (if those still sell), dice, branded sleeves...etc. Same with Android and Star Wars. Basically anything that has that brand. So that almost 1.4mil units for Star Wars would be XWing, the LCG and any other item that was sold in 2013 (which I also assume is FFG's Fiscal Year 2013 so we don't know the months used).