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Originally Posted by Nerroth
While it's perhaps fair to say that BattleTech isn't at the heights of popularity it might once have enjoyed, the game isn't dead just yet. Catalyst (who recently signed a long-term licence extension with Topps for the BT and Shadowrun game licences) have been pumping out a steady stream of English-language books for the setting, while Ulisses Spiele are busy translating them into German for the D-A-CH market.
(Actually, Ulisses have a series of novels which they have been publishing that aren't even available in English yet, such as a trilogy set during the Andurien Wars of the 3030s.)
Also, Catalyst will be releasing a new rulebook called Alpha Strike, which may help make the setting somewhat more accessable than it is at present in game play terms. |
Sure, the last holdouts are still buying books, but the franchise has lost most of its popularity, at least in the tabletop category. The fanbase is getting older and new blood isn't coming in. But that's what happens if you timejump the setting 100 years, THEN abandon that new highly unpopular timeline and try to return to the original timeline, while still slavishly following the events laid out in the new, abandoned, unpopular timeline.
Sometimes I think Kawamori really has a thing with his malleable continuity fetish.
Video games are of course another thing, although I am not a fan of the fremium model for MWO.