to that.
I am a fan of Star Wars in general but it really bugs me that they have to squeeze out every possibility to make money with this theme.
There used to be a game colled
STAR WARS pocketmodel TCG (which by the way is also pretty similar to the new X-Wing
)
which itself was a clone of "Pirates of the spanish main" that I played a lot before Wizkids went out of business.
At some point I personally think "enough is enough". And steeling other peoples ideas to make profit is also not the best move to make.
There is a big discussion here in Germany about the copyrights of boardgames (games). The problem is that the term copyright in Germany is not the same as in the US.
Here a distinction is drawn between "copyright" and "author's rights". The problem with boardgames in general is that the "author's rights" are not part of the copyright.
There even was a petition of the game designers/authors to change this and protect their "author's rights on games.
You will probabely know at least one of those
games designers.
That said, my personal opinion is that I let X-Wing be X-Wing with all of its rules that include dice, cardboard templates,... and stay with the real and original stuff
WoG.
Furthermore I also think that making game mechanics to complicated kills what makes the
WoG games so great, which is the simplicity that let's new players come into the games so fast.
(and of course veterans not having to carry around a pell with an endless list of rules
)
So, X-Wing rules (dice, ...) not for WoG please.
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