As I was preparing my most recent internal diatribe against Asmodee for losing us two Terraforming Mars games in a row I noticed that neither Gang of Four nor Dream Home are on the App Store anymore. This follows their removal of Splendor. It seems that Asmodee is taking more games off the store these days than adding.
But even their recent games are broken messes. Takenoko launched broken and hasn’t been patched once in over a year. I bet it disappears soon. Game of Thrones has a whole boatload of problems and also has the same end game scoring as Terraforming Mars - meaning people can’t even see it.
So at this point, why would I ever buy an Asmodee app again?
Has anyone heard anything about their digital strategy or plans lately? I’m a bit out of the loop.
When they first started the digital branch, they just wanted to build a customer base. Email addresses of people they could market to was the top priority.
Most of the early games were either publishing deals with existing titles or simpler games that were direct ports from the physical rules. But then they shifted to take on bigger titles where the goal was just to do more with the IP in the digital space, so games like Gloomhaven don’t directly match the physical game, and think those titles have been more successful for them so they are focusing their efforts in that area.
I’m sure it will never happen. So it depends on how much you like playing a multiplayer game using the Automata (does anybody ever play any complicated game as a Pass and Play game?)
There are some who use Pass and Play. It’s great for a long car trip or plane flight. We used to get lots of bugs reports for Pass and Play Waterdeep or Agricola.
However, I don’t think I’m ever going to play Maricaibo at the table in my life so $8 to demo it isn’t the worst proposition. It just won’t have any staying power.
