I just am curious to see what peeps really are thinking. Please leave this thread open to where peeps stand not where they want to see the game go or what there feelings are about the proposals in other threads. BTW thanks Shinga this site has enhanced the fun lv and has got many people to join SWM in the middle of nebraska!

i like the game. theres figs in my collection that i probably havent even used yet/recently. i like the game and im gonna stick with it

I'm gonna keep playing. And while I'd love to be involved with what Dean and the guys are doing, I'm gonna wait a bit and see how roles are defined in the next stage, and see where I fit. However they have a lot of ideas that I am very keen on. But in the mean time, I will continue to collect and play, and then play soem more.

there probably will be a new licence. if heroclix and pirates can get them i dont see why star wars wont

I plan to continue creating/playing mass battles and scenarios. [shameless plug: SWM Battles] I enjoy getting together with friends and playing the themed squads (melee only, bounty hunters, etc). I plan to pull out the modding tools again to make those pieces I did not get. I had been doing that, but often made uniques that came out in future sets, but don't have to worry about that now.

Basically, the only thing that will change for me (besides the extra money every few months) will be the lack of expectations and hypothesizing about future pieces and ability interactions. The game play won't be too different since I enjoy pulling out the old pieces once in a while and doing what I can with them to compete. We don't do much high-level competition anymore, so it works well for me.

I plan to continue to enjoy DT (great set, BTW, shame it has been overlooked on the boards this week) and look forward to one more release. For me, it is better to know it is the last one in advance, than the empty feeling of being told that was it and you missed it after it happens.

for Now,
I'm going to support my local stores and help plan our Regional tournament in the Spring
an PLAY blast it!

we just got Dark Times and Masters is 2 1/2 months away
I'm going to play

You forgot use pieces for RPGs. :)

For those who enjoy playing the game, either in high level competitive tournaments, or in local tournaments (which are often just as "competitive" as anything we might call "high level"), the game will continue for a long time. The Virtual cards will go a long ways to keeping it fresh, interesting, and fun. We also get the chance to fix a lot of the "issues" that naturally develop over the years with any game that runs this long as well. I know it all looks grim at the moment, but stick it out, having the players in charge can be a very very good thing in the long run. Look what we have been able to do, when all we had access to were the DCI floor rules for example.

If we backed up to the GOWK issue of last year, it would have been so simple if the players were in charge. Rather than the issue be ban or not ban, we could have gotten the errata done right away. Just an example, so don't dwell on it. Another will be custom maps. Some of our best maps were created not as WotC official products, but as fan maps, or privately. Eventually we might be able to make these playable for tournaments! As it is, we will be using some for the mystery map event at Gencon 2010!

Anyways, I look forward to the times ahead, because they will be a great time to actually play the game. Many of the issues that have caused players to quit over the years can finally be dealt with (if needed). Further, we will have a lot of fun making new cards and stats, and trying it all out. And here's one that I don't think I've seen mentioned before. How about the winner of Gencon being able to make their own mini! If and when we are allowed, I think a prize like that will be an option.

Further, we have a lot more control of RPG stuff going forward. That is often forgotten, but RPGs tend to flourish once the official support ends. The players (who generally know the issues better anyways) have less legal issues to publishing support products and supliments. Producing additional material is much easier as well. And considering the responses by many of the community, and some of the product suppliers, we won't be lacking in product support any time soon.

I think something that many people are forgetting is the following:

WOTC is not stopping production on the miniatures sets. I'm sure most of you would respond with "What are you smoking? Haven't you read anything??"

And I will respond with this: WOTC has ALREADY stopped production on all of their sets except for Masters of the Force. They aren't continuing to produce Dark Times boosters up till August or whatever. They stopped making those boosters several months ago, in time to get them shipped across the world for the release.

The way WOTC works is like this. A new set comes out, they produce an abundance of product. At some point, typically a couple years down the road, WOTC has considered doing 2nd print runs of certain sets. This happened with Clone Strike, where they did another printing in late 2007 or 2008 (can't remember for sure which it was). There are only a couple of sets that have EVER had a 2nd printing done.

A&E was rumored to get a 2nd printing at some point, which would be on round bases, but it never happened. Why? Because the initial stock of A&E can still be found places.


I say all of this to point out that there won't be a shortage of miniatures anytime soon. In a quick search around the net, Clone Strike seems to be the only thing I can't quickly find. However, I know my one LGS still had some CS boosters on the shelf not too long ago. I'm sure there's still some out there if people want to track them down. The great thing is though, people can just buy the last 4-5 sets and still keep up pretty well overall. Plus, add the Vsets to that list, and we'll be perfectly set (especially since that would likely allow a player to use, for instance, an Ugnaught Droid Destroyer as a proxy piece for an Ugo Demolitionist anyways).

So, to say that soon people won't be able to buy boosters is kind of silly IMO. I'm quite sure that we'll still be finding boosters on the shelves several years from now.

also if you cant find them in a game store(Ours is lacking except for newer stuff and REbel storm) there is always ebay.