I was surprised yesterday with a livestream from Crabok. He reported the end of Star Wars Armada (imminent) and Star Wars Xwing.

Armada didn’t surprise me. While it was one of my favorite games for a very long time. There hasn’t been a new ship released in years. I still intend to realize my Outer Rim Sieges campaign at some point. I have many of the rules written. It is just disappointing to see it end. The most shocking bit is that Atomic Mass Games purchased the game from Fantasy Flight and then did nothing. The same thing with XWing.

I wonder if the creativity wasn’t there? They blamed things on COVID, but that doesn’t jive. Xwing was pretty well covered, as far as cannon ships go. They could have gone in many more directions with legends or new pilots. I remember Xwing being one of the best-selling games for years. I know there was money there. It is just a disappointing kill for games.

Armada, on the other hand, had tons of options and places they could go. I can think of 10 ships that played a major role in the Clone Wars that were not instituted. Lucrehulk, of course, diamond corvettes, the federation ship that was a ball split in half, stealth ship, Naboo class frigate, and a couple other cruiser-style ships for the republic, just around disappointing.

The hardest part is I know Armada wasn’t selling well. You couldn’t just attend your FLGS and buy expansions for it. Getting new people into games is hard if you can’t see them on shelves. The same thing is happening with basically any non-GW game right now. You could buy X-Wing at Wal-Mart during its peak. The game was immensely popular, and there were many competitive events, just ugh.

Maybe a group of 20 could get a Patreon and restart the games? Buy the license for just those two games. It seems to me like money could be made there.