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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8679357" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>It's not weird at all. To be dead means that the game is no longer in print or being supported by the publisher. People might still play the game, I last ran a West End Games' <em>Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game</em> sometime around 2005 which was about 7 years after WEG lost the licesne, but it was a still a dead game. </p><p></p><p>The reason players might care whether a game is dead or not, is because it's harder to find other players for dead games. If I post a notice at my local game store saying I'm looking to run or join a game of WEG's <em>Star Wars, </em>how many people do you think I'd get for a game that hasn't been published since 1998? (Not counting FFG's 30 year anniversary reprint of the 1987 version of the main rule book.) I'd have much more luck getting a game of FFG's currently in print version of Star Wars. </p><p></p><p>And is Eden Studios still producing Buffy books? I'm not even sure Eden is still active. When I go to their website, the latest news is from 2014, their online store is broken, and I'm still waiting for them to publish Beyond Human.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8679357, member: 4534"] It's not weird at all. To be dead means that the game is no longer in print or being supported by the publisher. People might still play the game, I last ran a West End Games' [I]Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game[/I] sometime around 2005 which was about 7 years after WEG lost the licesne, but it was a still a dead game. The reason players might care whether a game is dead or not, is because it's harder to find other players for dead games. If I post a notice at my local game store saying I'm looking to run or join a game of WEG's [I]Star Wars, [/I]how many people do you think I'd get for a game that hasn't been published since 1998? (Not counting FFG's 30 year anniversary reprint of the 1987 version of the main rule book.) I'd have much more luck getting a game of FFG's currently in print version of Star Wars. And is Eden Studios still producing Buffy books? I'm not even sure Eden is still active. When I go to their website, the latest news is from 2014, their online store is broken, and I'm still waiting for them to publish Beyond Human. [/QUOTE]
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