Asmodee KILLS Star Wars Unlimited!!! What Is Really Happening With The Product + Prerelease Opening 

Just keep buying what you can from your local game stores that actually host events, and send some emails to Asmodee and FFG customer service complaining about the scalpers having tons of product when your LGS can't get any.

exactly, and lorcana didn't really become affordable or easy to come by until about set 3, I think this is a bit of a knee jerk reaction. We already know set one is getting another print run before set 3 comes out. The game exploded in popularity. Based on what he said, he was able to get more supply than my LGS, our constructed scene is really strong. Pack support for draft or prize support ran dry over a month ago here for set one. Our LGS had to work with distributors to secure supply where they could and got what they could from Asmodee too for set 2, seems like his gripe with the new set isn't a pattern as much as bad luck/prep. Hard to say.

Story of both those companies

No. Ravens burger isn't owned or distributed by asmodee.

@@AlexanderSzymanski gotcha. Thought the OP said it was in the video. Cheers!

Pay attention a bit more. This guy runs a store. He’s talking about ordering kits for his store. I had your same reaction but then I kept watching and realized he’s a store.

Backlash?! Fuck that.

They don't pay attention to anything like this

What are they going to give me less? lol

​@@oldschoolmtg i was lucky just to get one box and three prerelease kits from my lgs. i cant even imagine what 400 boxes even looks like. when i was in the musical instrument business we used to get shafted constantly because as a mom and pop store we just could not compete with the buying power of national chains. we definately would not have gotten away with bullying our distributors for product. it was very easy to get cut out of markets entirely just due to exclusivity contracts. telling our customers about the arraingments the manufacturers would make us adhere to would have definately broken those contracts and cost us the account entirely. blacklist city. so, in short, yes. they could very easily give you less, or even none at all.

MSRP is $129 a box

I know you mean well, but there's something inherently frustrating about messages that amount to, "That's odd. Every is great at my store. Be patient and everything is going to work out." It's easy to say that when you are getting the product you want and at reasonable prices. The truth is that this is not what is happening everywhere. How's about we tell all the stores in your area to cancel all their orders so that other areas can get theirs? I mean, your players just need to use proxies right? It'll be fine. You don't need real cards. Nobody will complain. You are placing a lot of faith in Asmodee when their history does not support your claim. They mismanage their games and when the interest wanes, they kill them off. As much as they say they've been doing to play catch up, it doesn't feel like enough to me. Am I being unreasonable? Maybe. At the end of the day I'm mad at myself for getting sucked in again. I said I was done after Destiny and here I am at the same place again.

I even admitted it isn't the same everywhere, I chose to patronize a store that is a decade old with good standing and drive 30 minutes extra to do so. My only point is the sky isn't falling, FFG admitted their faults and is correcting the issue. I don't support a store that preys on it's customers. If I was unfortunate and unable to get product, I would still play this game. Card games are always a risky thing to start playing, this game is worth it. "Every" store getting product isn't scalping. Stores talk to each other and spread product around between them also share large tournament schedules with each other. This game had a three year advanced notice it was being made and plenty of time to establish a good standing with all companies involved. The game is great, the supply will be fixed, the community is strong, they are play testing sets 6 and 7 all while the next two sets are ready to print in fact the third is being printed. You do you I would proxy everything.

By saying you chose to patronize a store that is a decade old with good standing, you're (perhaps unwittingly) suggesting that it's the store's fault if they can't get product. Yeah, my LGS should have blindly bet on FFG when their track record does nothing to warrant that level of trust. FFG says they knew people were going to be extra critical of them because they've blown it in the past. You do realize that this is the company that announced that they were stopping development of Star Wars Destiny about the same time that they announced a new set? The numbers just weren't there. So them working on sets 6 and 7 doesn't actually mean very much to me. The game designers will continue to work on the product until they're told to stop because that is what they are paid to do and THEY believe in their game. But THEY don't get to control whether those sets get published or not. We live in a world where a movie studio can decide that it's better to shelve FINISHED films rather than release them to streaming because there isn't enough money in it. I have no trouble believing Asmodee could trash several sets' worth of product at any time if they don't continue to hit their numbers. Destiny was hot when it started too. And it cooled off when they were caught off guard by how much demand there was going to be for the game. Oh but they learned their lesson this time! They printed so much more and this game just turned out even bigger than they could have hoped! It's not their fault! And actually, no it's not. That doesn't make the pill any easier to swallow. At the end of the day, we will have to agree to disagree. I could say we'll see who's right, but that implies I actually care, which at this point I do not. I've made my choice to not continue with this game because there are plenty of other games to choose from. In the interest of full disclosure, one of those games for me is Lorcana, which went through the exact same thing that SWU is going through. I recognize therefore the inherent hypocrisy of me slamming FFG while seemingly giving Ravensburger free pass. But I have to stress, FFG has a worse track record for me so I'm choosing not to continue on this ride with them at this time. Will I be back? Who knows but also who cares? It's not like my dollars mean that much to them when they have people clamoring to give them theirs. My point was that your original comment came off as condescending even though I don't think it was your intention and I was just explaining why. If you don't see it, that's fine...to use your own words, "you do you".

Seven showcases ( one player opened two ). I didn't pull any, played three prereleases and got five wins. So I opened 23 packs and pulled two Kylo and a Wrecker. Fun night.

He (the store) had to buy a package. My store too, it is all collector stuff and won't be reprinted, It will all sell out pre release day

All stores need to go through this wtf are you talking about

If the players can't get the cards but the scalpers can, then the game is in trouble because scalpers hurt games, but the games absolutely NEED the player base. No players = no game and if players can't get the cards, then they simply cannot play.

No he sounds right. They are screwing the players big time. My lgs’s in NH are having the EXACT situation. That’s three different stores in two cities and one town. It’s so sad that we go to every local play and still get the shaft😢

What division of Asmodee do you work in?

@@oldschoolmtg Lol, vote Trump much? And based on your aggressive reply, I hit the nail pretty much on its head, no?

@@leetfleet Watch the news much? FYI I don't vote for anyone, I don't follow politics. It's cool though just tell us what division of Asmodee you work in.

@@oldschoolmtg No need to work for Asmodee nor to be significantly intelligent to be able to read between the lines of that video…

If it's a good deal with room for profit my store will possibly buy it, email me lol.

Lols, why?

@@jessewallace3805 I see you don’t remember what happened to the fantasy flight Star Wars dice game when it added Disney Wars characters

what a friggin ❄️🤡 😂😂😂😂

Not being able to get our players who show up twice a week every single week to play at our store a single box while whatnot scalpers are getting pallets of product is fear mongering? So which division of Asmodee do you work in?

Terrible company or not, this game is amazingly well designed and is the first game in 20 years that has a shot of being every bit as big as Magic. IF Asmodee wises up and stops catering to scalpers instead of play stores.