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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 10:40AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 28, 2001
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Dear Dreamblade Players:
As you prepare your warbands for Augusts’ Dreamblade 50K championship, many of you may be wondering about the future of Dreamblade Organized Play (OP).
When we designed this game, we envisioned highly competitive organized play as one of the key things that makes the game great, and we provided robust organized play with Dreamblade. Despite our best efforts however, we didn’t get enough tournament players, and we can’t continue supporting the game with the same depth of OP that we’ve offered in the past. As a result, we will no longer be supporting the 1K and 10K events. The August 50K event will continue as scheduled, as will Edge Tournaments. We love this game and we know you do too. It’s a painful change but a necessary one.
Night Fusion, Dreamblade’s fifth set, releases in September and promises to be our most exciting set to date. It includes a number of new features that we have been reserving for Dreamblade’s second year. The success of Night Fusion will be very telling for Dreamblade as we gauge demand for the future. We hope fans come out in droves to support it!
Thank you for your passionate support of Dreamblade and your patience during this time. We hope to have the opportunity to continue to bring you this innovative and revolutionary game experience for some time to come.
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 10:49AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 21, 2007
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At least the cost will go down without prize support... right? 
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 10:54AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 31, 2006
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A sad but unsurprising announcement.
This will definitely kill what's left of the game in my area (and I suspect much of the country), so I will probably be giving it a fond farewell at Gencon and looking for a new game.
Michael Ayars
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 10:59AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 10, 2009
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I expected a massive event cut but cutting down to nothing seems extreme. Even a 1k once a month somewhere in the country would likely bring players in, just something to keep the community going and keep people being excited about purchasing new figures and testing. Alternatly, 3 10k's a year plus a slightly larger event at gencon to give us 1 event per quarter would likely drive sales and make the players happy.
Just my thoughts, clearly too late now though, the hammer has fallen.
What support will be offered after Gencon? Will there be any kinf of money event at the next years gencon? Will edges still get repaints, and if so, will they at least be rare repaints?
Ian Stickland
Redcap Council
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 10:59AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 12, 2006
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Well, hopefully this means that Edge tournaments will start receiving a little more attention. In my opinion, they need some serious revamping and expansion.
The best thing to do at this point is continue to support the game and hope that some day organized tournaments will be reinstated.
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 11:08AM
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This isn't a surprising announcement, although a little dissapointing. I hope they make Edge tournaments a little more worthwhile. I also hope they still have a big money championship next year. I wish I could afford to go to Gen-Con for the finals, but oh well, such is life. One thing that seems rather ominous is that it sounds like the sales of Night Fusion will determine the continued production of the game. As the game is already dying a quick death in the Edmonton area, I predict Night Fusion will be the last set. I hope I'm wrong, but that's my prediction. Of course the death of the game won't be announced until people have bought a bunch of Night Fusion. I'm normally not so negative but I see the writing on the wall. 
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 11:09AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 10, 2009
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Oh, and what happened to the promise of 3 years of tournament support? Is still holding edge events the loophole there or is Wizards inviting a lawsuit based on false claims about their product?
Also, to clarify, when you say the August 50k will continue as planned do you mean just this one or that there will be future ones?
Whats the word on future support? Is there some sales threshold where tournaments could come back?
Ian Stickland
Redcap Council
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 11:31AM
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I think this may be all my fault. I am like some sort of kiss of death for games. First Spycraft CCG, then Hecatomb, now Dreamblade...
Seriously though, this is a bummer. I'm not going to stop playing the game by any stretch of the imagination, but I will miss going to events and meeting cool people. I'll still buy Night Fusion to try and keep new sets rolling out, of course, but not having events to look forward to is going to hurt...
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 11:42AM
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- BCP5 Worldbuilding Lead
- I'll take Dreamblade for 200, Alex
Date Joined:
Sep 22, 2002
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I think I speak for everyone when I say:
WHAT!?
:raincloud
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6 years ago ::
Jul 17, 2007 - 11:48AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 10, 2009
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So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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