Come on FFG, give us the announcement article for Scarlet Keys. I understand they've been releasing old cycles but those of us who already own those have been content starved since Edge of the Earth.
Posted Jun 9, 2022, 3:29 PM UTC
It's only been 6 months since Edge of the Earth released (and only 4 months since the last new content, because Machinations Through Time was in February). If this was still following the previous format, we would only be just now getting the final pack in the cycle, and that's not even taking into account how badly a global pandemic has wrecked the timetables of pretty much everything.
I find in the interim exploring some of the fan campaigns has been well enough to tide me over between major releases. That, and replaying older cycles.
For example. The Dark Matter campaign is absolutely fantastic and definitely worth a try. I am grabbing the Alice in Wonderland campaign next with high hopes, and have been eyeing the Plaguebearer as well. (I agree with you though that FFG could up their communication game regarding Arkham, but I think some of the other gamelines are taking up their bandwidth.)
Ive ordered (from MPC) and played both Alice and Plaguebearer and have to say that both are fantastic. Each are really well designed.
Where can the fan made campaigns be found?
There are quite a few places, including the ArkhamCentral and MysteriousChanting websites.
I personally follow the BGG thread: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2661759/professionally-printed-cards-ffg-custom-made-conte
Subscribed. Thank you!
And then there's me waiting on Return to The Dream Eaters. I'm kind of expecting it Q3 this year, but further delays are possible given the lack of other news.
I don't care how long I have to wait as long as they keep up the amazing quality that EOTE was. The new format is amazing for expanding the possibilities of the actual scenarios/campaigns of the game.
And I'm still here waiting for the obligatory Cthulhu campaign, at this point they're just prolonging the inevitable.
I really doubt there will be one, too many players expecting it might be disappointed so they would rather make different content that players have little or none expectations about IMO
(I also wish and hope for cthulhu campaign, but I try to be realistic)
You could have said the same thing about innsmouth or mountains of madness a few years ago.
I think Valve is the only company I've ever known that actually uses the "players want it too much, they won't be satisfied" excuse to justify not releasing a product.
Cthulu appears in lots of other FFG Arkham files games. There's no reason to think FFG or the Arkham lcg team are cthulhu shy. It's just a matter of time.
one can only hope
Well... I get what you mean, but not having a Cthulhu campaign at all would be even more disappointing.
yeah but that would be at the time when the game would be over anyway, so nobody would care that the 5 people still playing the game are dissapointed ;-)
I think all the people who left would still be disappointed that they never had a Cthulhu campaign.
I just don't see them not doing it. Cthulhu is so engrained in this mythos that it would be a slap in the face of every fan if they didn't do a campaign around him.
I thought Innsmouth was finally going to do it, but they went with Dagon and Hydra instead for some reason.
It's a "slap in the face" if they don't make the exact $100+ product that you want?
Also, doesn't a tentacular old one appear as the big bad in Carnevale of Horrors?
I would guess that a lot of fans want a campaign centered around Cthulhu, it'd be a huge miss on their part if they don't develop something that will undoubtedly sell well like the other campaigns!
Not all tentacles lead back to Cthulhu
And I STILL haven't got a clue when the copies I ordered immediately will ever arrive in New Zealand.
I almost don't care about the next announcement, because it seems like I won't have a chance to play whatever is announced for another couple of years anyway.
Agree! People just keep repeating the same stuff like "we have gotten a new standalone, or re-releases of campaign", or just keep saying that it is because od COVID, but in reality most of the capable companies have managed to deal with the covid complications and are as good as they were considering supply and everything, there are some problems here and there but not like this. It has been 2.5 years, covid is no longer a good excuse. (In Oceania i can understand it)
What bothers me is this game is clearly no longer an LCG. It has no constant drip of info or game content, we got EotE announced more than 1 year ago lmao. Also i have an unpopular opinion = standalones do not count as a new release in my group, so it is even more emphasized
Shanghai was completely closed for like 2 months earlier this year so production and shipping from China have continued to be wrecked recently, even if COVID is "over" in the US and much of the west. Huge games like Frosthaven have been delayed 2-3 months due mostly to the shutdowns so it's difficult to expect no delays from FFG.
Shanghai was closed now for 2 months but what about a year before it, or now? Most companies started doing things the old way before Shanghai lockdown and now are again returning to normal, while FFG is still in the same problems it was 2.5years ago,, shipping OR marketing wise
You realize that "LCG" is just a marketing term invented by Fantasy Flight, right?
You may be right that it's not quite the same thing anymore, and it may be better or worse for the brand in the long term (I think so far it's been better, but ymmv)--but this feels like someone getting really emotionally invested in whether a series drops on Disney+ all at once or one episode at a time, and whether that means it's a "TV" series or "limited" series. It may change how you're consuming it, but at the end of the day the content is the same either way.
You are aware that they've already done an entire week-long marketing thing on Twitter, right?
And that they've already previewed one of the investigators, Charlie Kane, right?
As you acknowledged in another reply, the lack of an article on the FFG site a month after those few tweets is a mistake.
You shouldn't have to follow a company on social media to get these updates, yet alone finding a random third party doing an interview which covers a character preview.
Who uses twitter as their sole marketing tool in 2022? Seriously? They have their own page, why not use it? If not of reddit i would also have missed it
They used Instagram as well. All of this was then extensively reposted here, on facebook and on discord.
Sure, we would all like the article, but I'm guessing they have some kind of week planned around it.
standalones do not count as a new release in my group
Uh, why not? I don't understand your definition at all.
They're certainly less content than a full cycle, but I agree standalones are still great. You can do all kinds of stuff in a standalone you couldn't in a campaign from a deck perspective.
I think the long-term campaign format made it untenable as an LCG. It's now much closer to a board game that's played with cards. Whether that's good or bad remains to be seen.
They’re focused on Marvel Champions, a real money maker. Did you get a load of the Mutants expansion?
This is a result of the new format. They used the string the content out for months with the packs. Now everyone complains about no new information on future content even though the last Scarlet Keys teaser was barely a month ago.
There is the same amount of content in the campaign and investigator box as previously, they could easily start releasing articles about the different investigators and scenarios for months as they did before.
My guess is that it's too much work to write all these articles, with EotE it seems they changed their approach with a once per year card previews driven but content creators.
You are aware that they've already done an entire week-long marketing thing on Twitter, right?
And that they've already previewed one of the investigators, Charlie Kane, right?
Not everybody uses twitter and you can't reasonably expect people to check every piece of a companies social media to get fed some crumbs and stay up to date. The actual homepage should suffice.
I actually agree with this, I am a little annoyed there wasn't a wrap-up article on the FFG homepage, but I also hope that the stuff gets shared around enough on other socials that it does eventually reach all the active fans.
Based on this thread alone it would seem that is inaccurate and I hope FFG learns from that.
No ! My reddit feed has failed me, will check it out, thanks !
Allow me to help:
https://youtu.be/c59-sylMg0M
Easy to overlook Twitter, it's such an over-valued source...
But I've definitely seen a post or two about it elsewhere, they're not being silent.