Ares didn't "Roll The Hard Six"... no they dropped the ball on this wonderful game... real bad! I know that they are a small company but the game was winning awards. The miniatures looked great, and the rules were fast, fun, and simply wonderful in terms of representing the Reimagined BSG series combat.
Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles should have been glorious.
My experience with Ares BSG SSB begane soon after it was announced in the Summer of 2018.
I have been friends with Roberto for the two years BSG SSB has been a property. He was delightful and we had fun on FaceBook for sure. I had the miserable experience of watching him slowly became distant as people started to complain about the atrocious release schedule. Roberto and Andreas made a lot of cool posts about new product... but it got stale! We got lots of promises, but very little came to be.
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| THE COLONIAL SHIPS WE WERE PROMISED 2018-2019 |
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| THE CYLON SHIPS WE WERE PROMISED 2018-2019 |
In my time knowing them I realized that Ares Games are like ancient wizard who are slow to do any actual magic. I am sure many of us wanted them to be like Gandalf say... at Bilbo's birthday party!
A few people who liked my enthusiasm and frequent postings about BSG SSB on relevant FBGroups warned me about the sleepy way Ares produces their products. I ignored their friendly advice because I was happy to see a cool miniatures game FINALLY being made for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!
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| EVERYTHING ARES RELEASED WAS LATER THAN EXPECTED! |
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| ARES BSG SSB EPIC... NOPE! |
I want to be clear here gang. I am not angry... not anymore, just disappointed with Ares Games! I became friends with Andreas too in the early days of BSG SSB, and none of the failures we have seen in the last two years are his fault, not at all! As the Lead Game Designer for BSG SSB Andrea has been wonderful! I hate to say it but Roberto, and plain bad planning is what ruined this franchise. It is truly a genuine shame!
I have had the privilege to chat with a few hundred people about BSG SSB over the last two years and more than half of them told me they just wanted the BSG TOS Ships to be released. The next comment from at least half of them was: I am going all in and will likely buy a few hundred dollars of BSG TOS products!
So Was I my BSG Brothers and Sisters.
BSG SSB had only two releases by the time of it's first birthday (both ridiculously late), and I was well aware that the game was suffering from low sales. Of course this was because products got previewed but never released. In fact the game only saw one expansion come out on time (after it had been postponed once... of course). Why did Ares murder the game and themselves like this?
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| NOPE... NOPE... NOPE!!! |
If Ares had just sold the classic ships first and if Roberto had spent less time chirping about social agendas which hurt sales for the company too, BSG SSB would of sold much better. The limited resources and low sales excuses started to make the rounds online, and Spaceship Packs we had been promised (YES Roberto said promise a few times) remained in limbo.
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| ARES BSG SSB FIRST CYLON WAR... NOPE! |
"Limited resources and low sales!" was an excuse I continued to hear from friends closer to Ares than I was. That became Felgercarb to me because all kinds of established products continued to be released... for FRAK Sakes! Then delightful covid... blah... and evil-china factories... blah. Nope you had already frakked up the game by that time Ares!
It has been interesting to see how this franchise blossomed and then died over the last two and a quarter years.I had many hundreds (and even a few thousand) views on all of my early BSG SSB articles here. I KNOW that in the first year people had a lot of excitement for this cool little game. By the second year however it went down fast. My BSG articles barely got a hundred views then, and people were openly complaining on the BSG and Ares FBGroups.
SOooo now the teasing and the felgercarb promises are finally over and the sleepy Ares-BSG game that we dreamt about is just leaving us all behind. Meanwhile Ares Games is off the hock and can continue to putz around... being small.
I am alright with this ridiculous situation and I will continue to enjoy BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and BSG GAMES in my own way. Ares made enough for us to play with... and we can have fun, just not as much fun as we wanted to have. It's A'ight.
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| IN 2 & 1/2 YEARS THIS IS ALL WE GOT... FRAK YOU ARES, BUT HAVE A NICE DAY! |
I am going to continue loving this wonderful universe, and when something else new comes out again someday in the foreseeable future I just might buy it and love it too... MAYBE!
