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Long time board game publisher Mayfair Games (English-language publisher for Settlers of Catan and many more) has shut down.
All of their games have been sold to Asmodee North America, who also own Fantasy Flight Games, Z-Man Games, Rebel, Edge Entertainment, and a host of other board game companies they've picked up over the years.
[Ed Note - Asmodee NA also picked up Lookout Games at the same time. Lookout was the publisher of Agricola and Caverna.]
Related: Asmodee Acquires Lookout Games and Mayfair Games
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Mayfair Games Closes After 36 Years of Board Games
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by bobthecimmerian on Monday February 12 2018, @12:33PM (2 children)
Catan is as social as Monopoly or Rummy or many other games.
I have a lot of friends that play board games pretty often. So even with the wild popularity of computer games, I'm surprised by this. On the other hand, there is a lot of good competition. My kids and I play the Dungeons and Dragons parody board game "Munchkin" and a handful of its variants plus "King of Tokyo", "Quirkle", "Life", "Puerto Rico", and "Small World". Catan has a lot of competition, and I don't think any of those others are made by Mayfair games.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday February 12 2018, @02:19PM (1 child)
"Sheriff of Nottingham" yet another super fun game to play with the kids, and every dollar spent at Arcane Wonders is a dollar that did not keep Mayfair Games alive.
The barrier to entry for mid-level euro games is extremely low, so its a hard market to sell in, as shown by the failure of Mayfair.
In the long run I wouldn't be surprised to see kickstarter replace the concept of publishing house. How exactly would "Card Rogue" or more specifically the designers of the game, have benefited by working with Mayfair instead of going kickstarter? I've bought a lot of paper from J Evans Payne WRT Pathfinder RPG books, kickstarter works pretty well for that too. Everyone in the general field seems to be making a lot of money, well, except for the publishing houses...
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Monday February 12 2018, @08:07PM
Good point. I've only backed a few Kickstarter board game projects, but so far the results have been good. I remember Zeppelin Attacks! from Evil Hat Productions, I haven't played it much but it's fun when I do bring it out.