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#GuildBallFieldTest some feedback from an LGS that was “all in” on GB when it released: the reason we stopped stocking GB was everythif to do with getting product from SFG, surprise releases killing our stock (imagine sitting with £100 of dead books on your shelf that you...
...only ordered a week ago, as a startup), rapid nerf/buffs making your stock on shelves hard to sell, Organised Play that wouldnt send you kits in advance unless you had 16 players registered despite historically having that many on the day, release cycles so slow there was...
...nothing to sell, release cycles so fast that players couldnt keep up with the new cards, and lots more. To this day if people ask me what the best competitive skirmisher real set is, I will tell them that this is Guild Ball. The game was great, but supporting it as an LGS...
...Was not only incredibly time-consuming, but also financially very risky and in many cases just cause straight up losses. I know that not everyone agrees that stores are the heart and soul of the growth of Games, and that I am arguably biased as a store owner, but I will...
...assert this: if you don’t have stores on side, if you don’t make your game a good financial proposition for them, if you make it difficult to deal with you, your game will always have restricted growth. I dont know a lot about SFG in recent years since we gave up...
...on Guild Ball, but I do know that we cancelled our Godtear preorders because no one was replying to our emails. As a business person, I would hazard a guess that the place to look for improvements is core business strategy. I hope this is useful as I’ve always loved GB...
...and respected its place within the competitive game ecosystem, and I’d love to see it do well again both for SFG and for the players who have invested so much passion into it!
Ps. Sorry for the spelling oddities in this thread, I have RSI and I dictated it all, I think it all makes sense :)
