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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melba Toast" data-source="post: 4576563" data-attributes="member: 80591">Does anyone know the real story behind the Black Industries/Talisman debacle?I worked at a game store at the time of the release (last year), and from my perspective, Talisman was about as big as game industry news gets. Presales were high. It was outselling Settlers for a while, all despite a noticable lack of advertising. Then, while the game was still fresh and retailers were still moving through their stock, Black Industries folded (or did they?) and handed the keys to the caddy over to FFG. Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the Talisman Clusterf*ck was that the local Games Workshop Store was forbidden from selling the game. The manager told me they had received a shipment of the game when it was first released, but HQ told them at the last minute not to stock it. So they had a box of Talisman in their storeroom that they weren't allowed to open.Personally, I've always felt Talisman was a failure of marketing. It belongs in toy stores and Walmart. The appeal is broad enough, and the game rules simple enough, to sell to a wider, non-gamer marketplace.</blockquote>