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Why Doesn't Star Wars Hold More Mind Share in the RPG Market?
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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8083688" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>Star Wars has previously been a top-tier RPG.</p><p></p><p>In the late 90's, it was definitely doing VERY well before West End Games went bankrupt. WEG collapsed not because of their games not selling, but because the owner was diverting operating funds from WEG to cover expenses at another business he also ran, until paychecks started bouncing at WEG and they quickly went bankrupt in the Summer of '98.</p><p></p><p>The d20 versions released by WotC were also top-tier bestselling RPG's, but it's my understanding that WotC didn't renew the license in 2010 when it expired because Hasbro has unreasonably high expectations of every "brand" under their umbrella, and that simply put there is no RPG on the market besides D&D can make the sales that Hasbro wants to see from a WotC "brand", not even Star Wars.</p><p></p><p>I don't know about FFG's stuff, I actively avoided it because I already had several versions of Star Wars (all 3 d20 versions and the d6 version from WEG), and I really didn't need to buy yet another RPG to cover the same things that I'd already had with other games. Why buy yet another RPG book that covers the same things I already have? </p><p></p><p>If I run Star Wars, I'll probably pull out my d6 books, to be honest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 8083688, member: 14159"] Star Wars has previously been a top-tier RPG. In the late 90's, it was definitely doing VERY well before West End Games went bankrupt. WEG collapsed not because of their games not selling, but because the owner was diverting operating funds from WEG to cover expenses at another business he also ran, until paychecks started bouncing at WEG and they quickly went bankrupt in the Summer of '98. The d20 versions released by WotC were also top-tier bestselling RPG's, but it's my understanding that WotC didn't renew the license in 2010 when it expired because Hasbro has unreasonably high expectations of every "brand" under their umbrella, and that simply put there is no RPG on the market besides D&D can make the sales that Hasbro wants to see from a WotC "brand", not even Star Wars. I don't know about FFG's stuff, I actively avoided it because I already had several versions of Star Wars (all 3 d20 versions and the d6 version from WEG), and I really didn't need to buy yet another RPG to cover the same things that I'd already had with other games. Why buy yet another RPG book that covers the same things I already have? If I run Star Wars, I'll probably pull out my d6 books, to be honest. [/QUOTE]
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