The people who run these kinds of companies ascended to their roles through a mixture of amorality, naked ambition, willingness to do whatever it takes to ingratiate themselves to those above them, credit stealing, blame shifting, and sabotage of rivals. As a rule, they are uncreative, unintelligent, and cowardly, but they have arrogance in spades. If you think you’ve met an exception to the rule, you’re either wrong or they just haven’t been pushed out yet. Natural sociopaths are common, but so are those who have intentionally become sociopathic in the pursuit of power. It’s a trait that’s selected for.
They will replace successful leaders with their own cronies and yes people because they would rather suffocate a successful thing they don’t control completely than tolerate success from someone that’s threatening to their ego.
For all of their performative hand wringing about layoffs, they don’t actually care and will say terrible things in private.
Long story short, they’re all Carter Burke from Aliens, but the more power one accumulates, the more of an asshole they become.
Source: from millionaires to billionaires, I’ve had to deal with these human-shaped bags of shit up close and personal my entire career.
It’s a crazy high operating cost number, if true. Rule of thumb is that operating costs are 25-40% in addition to employee salaries for white collar employees.
Despite their reputation I’ve bought many cards from them off and on since the late 90s and have had good interactions, really sad to see them stop. Doesn’t seem great for the game either, particularly considering they only dropping MTG and no other TCGs/games.
This is terrible news for the game. The reasons they list are extremely difficult to overcome without an about-face from wizards with how they treat game stores and their product releases.
It’s a fancy bit of kit but i have to think something home made could be better suited for a given GM. That said might be nice to give as a christmas gift if it’s cheap enough
I really like boop. I’m partial to abstracts anyway and this one’s theme makes it approachable to people who wouldn’t play it otherwise. It’s so quick to play, too.
@donio@dpunked It's definitely nice to see Boop being recognised. It's a wonderful little game. Hopefully this will make it a bit easier to find in the future.
I am surprised that Asmodee did not object to the trademark. There is significant historical good will in the Mayfair games branding and there is definitely going to be confusion where customers will think that games released by the new "Mayfair" are coming from the historical one. I suppose if they put out a total clunker, it is their own branding that they are hurting, but some hobbyists still remember Mayfair being bought out and may complain to Asmodee about a bad Mayfair game.
The problem is that Asmodee abandoned the trademark so they could object but they would have no standing to defend it. Like you say though, it's kind of absurd that they did abandon it.
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