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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
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Don't criticize others for their different opinions. "Our mother has been absent ever since we founded Rome; but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home." |
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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
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If he was really trying to attack your post, I get it, but that's not what happened, and the dude didn't deserve the level of snark you responded with. "Our mother has been absent ever since we founded Rome; but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home." |
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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
Is Heroscape insanely expensive right now? Valkyrie sets routinely going for $30 shipped AFAIKT seem like a good price. And terrain is available cheaply too (with a couple exceptions, but that is where crafting comes into play). There are more and more plastic minis on the market these days as well.
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As for the petition, it won't happen. The M:tG fanbase is infinitely larger than Heroscape's, and WotC barely cares about what they want. It's all about getting casual players to spend paychecks on packs and World running smoothly (regardless of the state of the meta game). No chance we 'Scapers see a reboot outside of Arena of the Planeswalkers. |
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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
In response to the OP, and I'm sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I found this today after I once again became interested in Heroscape, I found this petition on Change.org:
https://www.change.org/p/hasbro-fant...back-heroscape Maybe if one can get enough signatures through social media, Hasbro will try to make a change? |
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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
Hasbro has made a change of sorts. They came out with a new game, a sort of HeroScape spinoff if you will, called Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers.
I think this is as close as we're getting to "bringing HeroScape back" and I as well as many others (I think) are more than happy with it . |
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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
If you look at old discussion threads, you will find hundreds of posts on this subject. Some of the major problems include:
1. Hasbro keeps the rights to all of its games forever, refusing to license them out to others who might want to develop them. There used to be many toy companies, but now Hasbro is one of only three huge corporations that control the industry (except for Kickstarter). 2. Inflation makes it impossible to produce sets with the value of the old master sets for a comparable price. Which is why MTG:AOTP offers so much less physical product. |
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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
I don't buy that inflation argument right now, crude oil, the basis of plastic toys, is down to the price it was back in 2003, right before Heroscape went into original production. I'd imagine the profit margin would be about the same today per unit as then.
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Everyone always assumes that the price of the plastic was a large piece of the cost of Heroscape. I don't buy that argument. The labor to paint all those figures and terrain and do the dip washing, even if cheap Chinese labor, is where the cost is at. Notice that AotP components are mostly unpainted and unwashed.
Heroes of Star Wars Scape (HoSS) My Custom Repaint Figures / My Custom Terrain / My Maps & Scenarios / My Trade List Red 6 standing by! Last edited by Porkins; December 8th, 2015 at 03:12 PM. |
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Economical
Well, I guess that depends on expenses to returns. If I spend $3 on plastic for two different games and one gives me $10 in returns and the other gives me $25 I'm going to focus on the $25 game.
I suspect that WotC hoped that Heroscape would eventually become a gateway to things like DND. (Their business models in a few areas leave some things to be desired) Once it seemed apparent that they were not getting the returns on the investment, the costs of the game likely led to it not being profitable. With something like AotP, it is kind of the same thing but with an easier connection. They'll gobble up magic players, they'll probably get old Scape players, and they might grab people who play the board game. Then using that, they'll get players into their profitable Magic trading card game. I don't know how long of a leash they give AotP but that's my guess on the past and the future of those games. ~Dysole, with no real inside information just observations My Twitch Channel where I play Scape and other things My YouTube Channel where the games get uploaded later Dysole's Draft Rankings Map Thread (Not responsible for psychic damage) Customs Battle Reports This sentence is seven words long. This sentence is not seven words long. |
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Re: Petition Hasbro/WotC to reboot Heroscape?
Except that AotP is not controlled by WotC:
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Heroes of Star Wars Scape (HoSS) My Custom Repaint Figures / My Custom Terrain / My Maps & Scenarios / My Trade List Red 6 standing by! |
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