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Fantasy Flight and Asmodee merge

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17 Nov 2014 13:04 #190796 by Msample
www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5212

Interesting. Short term, doesn't sound like much will change. Sounds like its more about combining some back of the house stuff and leveraging each brands local market strength. Long term, who knows.

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17 Nov 2014 13:09 #190799 by Juniper
Fortress: FrancoTrash
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17 Nov 2014 13:26 #190801 by VonTush
Hmm...First Z-Man and now FFG?
I think I overestimated the size of the US publishers in relation to other companies.

So...Who is ready for Claustrophobia - Terrinoth?
Dungeon Terrinoth Twist anyone?

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17 Nov 2014 13:32 #190802 by Michael Barnes
Crap! I hope this doesn't mean I'm off the Asmodee press list!

Probably a smart move for Asmodee in particular...they are right on the cusp of breaking through to a new level in the US. Not only because they are just killing it lately with top notch titles, but they are also getting things into mainstream stores. I just saw Tokaido and Hotel Tycoon at TRU.

Next up- Gale Force 9 buys Mayfair, produces Masters of Sex Catan.
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17 Nov 2014 13:41 #190804 by derekjinx
Giving new mileage to the tired joke "wood for sheep." And that show it set in the 1960's so it really is a wooly, wooly sheep.

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17 Nov 2014 13:41 #190805 by Juniper
@eric_lang on Twitter: "I'll still be happily making games for FFG, so read into that what you will."

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17 Nov 2014 13:43 #190806 by Bull Nakano
The statement was actually that ffg merged into asmodee. I'm not sure what that tricky wording means, but eric w's news post translates it as asmodee acquiring ffg. Either way I doubt this will be a problem for consumers, where I think the acquisition of DoW is bad for them because they're such a small and focused studio, ffg is much larger.

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17 Nov 2014 13:43 #190807 by charlest
Christian T. Peterson:

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17 Nov 2014 14:06 #190808 by VonTush
Charles nails it...CTP has cashed his retirement check.

Wow...Asmodee FY 2013 revenues: $140mil Euros ($175mil).
Kinda keeps those $1mil Kickstarters that are supposed to break the hobby into perspective.
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17 Nov 2014 14:22 #190809 by Gary Sax
Shit! Good on CTP! Awesome.

I hope FFG keeps doing what they're doing, though I'd like to see a few more of those risky originals.

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17 Nov 2014 14:33 #190811 by engineer Al
Wow, I sure am surprised by this one. I would have thought that just raking in the cash every year would have been enough for good 'ol CP. I guess it just proves what I'm always saying: "Everybody wants to be Zev". :)

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17 Nov 2014 14:38 #190813 by JEM
Let the Star Wars Euros commence.

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17 Nov 2014 14:42 #190814 by Sagrilarus
BattleLore finds its way back home.
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17 Nov 2014 14:56 #190817 by Egg Shen
Lots of changes on the publisher landscape over the past few months. Asmodee is setting themselves up to be King Shit of the Boardgaming Universe.

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17 Nov 2014 14:59 #190819 by Michael Barnes
Yes sir, CTP is most likely the big winner in all of this, and my hat goes off to him. He and I have had our differences both in public and in private in the past but I absolutely respect him and I think he's really kind of done the impossible- start a hobby games business from the ground up and make it really, really successful. I mean, look back at the early TI stuff and then at Imperial Assault now. It's been a long time coming (almost 20 years!!!?!?!?), but I certainly hope that he is getting a nice fat Christmas bonus, so to speak out of this deal. Smart businessmen know that the way you really make money off your company is to build it up and then SELL. I had a friend that started and ran a very successful retail company doing a few million in proft annnual and he turned around after about 10 years and made more money in a single business merger than he did the entire time running the business.

It definitely seems tha tin recent years FFG has drifted away from the traditional board game product...even sort of away from further expanding its core product lines in that category. It's been lots of LCGs, expansions and X-Wing. Aligning with Asmodee gives their brand name some big board games heft that frankly has been quite lacking in recent years.

Maybe soon paparazzi will photograph CTP and Zev cruising the streets of Monte Carlo in matching Lamborghini Countaches, drinking liquified gold and wearing suits made of $100 bills.
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