With the annual Alliance Open House coming up this weekend
in beautiful Ft. Wayne, I came up with a list of questions I would like to ask
a number of the attending publishers:
1.
WOTC--The
focus on Magic and Dungeons & Dragons is great and I know that is where
your bread is buttered, so to speak but what about your catalog of boardgame
titles? TableTop gave a nice boost to sales of Betrayal at House on the Hill
but are there any plans to promote other backlist titles such as RoboRally,
Guillotine, Great Dalmuti, Risk 2144 or Diplomacy? All still sell slowly but I
would sure like to see what they could do with the sort of promotional push
Magic and D&D get.
2.
Fantasy Flight Games—Congratulations on getting
the X-Wing Core Set included as part of Force Friday. I haven’t seen a copy of
the game yet so could you tell me if there was anything included in it that
sent purchasers to the LGS to buy additional ships for the game, those ships
that Target doesn’t carry?
3.
And while we’re at it, Fantasy Flight Games,
Days of Wonder, Z Man Games—You have track records of running out of your best
selling titles during the holiday shopping season. Have you made any plans to
build up inventory this year in order to avoid a repeat?
4.
WizKids—You have really started pushing
Organized Play registration this year, so any plans to create OP software that
we can download to the computer to make uploading results easier? It can be a
bit of a pain to handle reporting when the internet is running slow. Also, you
finally announce that stores with remaining boosters of War of Light could
start selling them without violating our agreement with you. When will you post
a date allowing us to sell off old Organized Play products from Star Trek
Attack Wing and D&D Attack Wing? OP for both games has died off here and we
have months old OP materials sitting in backstock that we would like to
liquidate.
5.
Plaid Hat Games—Will Dead of Winter return to
stock in time for the holiday selling season and will you have enough product
to supply sales through the season? Do you have any plans for expansions and if
so, when?
6.
Steve Jackson Games—Any more releases planned
for Evil Stevie’s Toys? The ducks didn’t do that well but I can always sell
more Cthulhu plushies. Do you have any research showing demand for the guest
artist versions of Munchkin? I can
understand guest artists on new versions of Munchkin (Munchkin Kitchen, anyone?)
but do you have anything indicating that Munchkin has a strong enough fan base
that a player will want another copy of Space Munchkin that only differs due to
the art?
7.
Green Ronin—Fantasy Age? Titansgrave? Will we
get these while there is still a buzz from the first season of the web series?
Any chance for us to get a limited edition signed by the Titansgrave group?
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