Comments on: So Much for That Then

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:30:00 +0000

From my consumer’s viewpoint… Games Workshop treats their RPG products like a family living off a hooker. They don’t like what it is the hooker does but they like the money. I’m happy that Dark Heresy, specifically, isn’t dead in the water but it’s BS that GR wasn’t given a fair shot at it. GW: Great ideas & games, baffling business practices.

By: Nikchick

Nikchick — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:06:00 +0000

Wanna comment about my being a “horrible person” you should come on by MY blog and do it, Dave. Go ahead, let’s see what you really know about things.

By: Orion

Orion — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:25:00 +0000

I’m sorry to hear about this Chris. I really like Green Ronin products, and I would have purchased WFRP products from GR.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:01:00 +0000

That sucks, Chris! I was hoping GR would get it.

Christina

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Well if Nicole hadn’t been such a horrible person to BI staffers at GenCon…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Can't help but be disappointed reading that you fellows at GR made a bid but didn't get it.

As has been said here already, you would have been the natural home for the rpgs to go to given the amount of effort you've expended on it so far.

For what it's worth, thankyou for that effort.
It was done with an impressive degree of aptitude and a genuine 'feel' for the games you tended back to life/into existance.

I'm gonna try and not let this taint my exitement about the line being continued all the same.
Give the folks over at FFG a good chance.
Still...
I'd have loved to have seen where you'd have taken it all.

By: thehedgewizard

thehedgewizard — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:15:00 +0000

I can't say I agree that FFG is unprofessional, though my dealings with them have concerned their boardgames & CCGs and not RPGs. Aside from their release date management, I see little to indict them.

I will be very curious to see the results of their stewardship.

I am very surprised that GR wasn't approached by GW in the first place. It seems to me that would have been a natural extension.

Thank you Chris (and by extension, GR) for all of your hard work and creativity. You brought WFRP out of the grave, and did so with an obvious reverence for the prior material but also offering a new, excellent take on the system. A thousand thanks for that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:57:00 +0000

Well….crud. I really dislike ffg, they are very unprofessional (at least in all of my dealings with them), and I believe GR is a superior company. I’m sorry you didn’t get this license, you guys deserved it. GR is a pleasure to deal with.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:29:00 +0000

WFRP seems to have commitment issues, doesn't it? Now moving to its 5th publisher...

Anyway, thanks for the low-down. I was wondering where GR stood in this whole business. You guys did a fantastic job overall, and FFG's work will be much easier thanks to GR solving many of the tricky mechanical & IP challenges of updating v1. If FFG ends up making a kickass v3, it will be largely thanks to the trailblazing work GR/BI did on v2.

Strange that GW made such an abrupt decision.

Arnulfe

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:10:00 +0000

Well, that's a shame. Given you guys wrote it and this was the most consistent and comprehensive WFRP period ever, I would have liked to have thought you'd be first choice.

It'll be interesting to see how they handle the RPG and if it becomes a hogshead situation where everything sets so tied up in approval it never comes out.