And we didn’t sell enough product to make the game profitable. And we constantly had people that we know have their finger on the pulsebeat of the game telling us that the game was losing people’s interest rapidly all over the place.
And the rate that new signups to the fan club hit the mailbox dropped by 80%. It bombed so hard that it very nearly killed L5R outright, and it probably did kill a number of other CCGs that Dancey had convinced to use the distribution model like Rage, Doomtown, and Dune.įrom a comprehensive breakdown/retrospective of the Rolling Thunder fiasco where Ryan Dancey blames everything but himself for nearly killing the game with his clever ideas:Īnd the number of people playing the game actively dropped by something close to half. This would encourage customers to visit game stores more often, ideally encouraging more impulse purchases as a result, and the flatter rarities would be viewed positively both by casual and hardcore players alike. How so? Well, to start with there was Dancey’s bold new vision for a CCG distribution model called “Rolling Thunder” which envisioned a system where, instead of traditional sized sets being released every three months or so, you would have smaller sets with flatter rarities being introduced every month or so. Pretty much everything he touches turns to shit in some way. The problem is that Ryan Dancey is the living embodiment of terrible ideas. Okay, that all sounds pretty cool, right? This Ryan Dancey fella must have his head on straight to do all that. From there Dancey wound up as Vice President in charge of Dungeons & Dragons at WotC while they were gearing up to release the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
His first big success story was his involvement with the Legend of the 5 Rings CCG, which he helped launch and subsequently helped sell to Wizards of the Coast (the Magic: the Gathering people) at the same time he brokered a deal for WotC to purchase the rights to Dungeons & Dragons from its original parent company, TSR, while they were imploding due to a history of poor financial decisions catching up with them. Mostly the business he’s done has been in the tabletop gaming industry, such as collectable card games and pen-and-paper RPGs. His Wikipedia article leads off with “Ryan Dancey is a businessman” which is as good a description as any in the sense that he is a man who does business. So Pathfinder Online is a huge, embarrassing flop, but in order to really explain how it got to be that way first I have to tell you about the man behind it, Ryan Dancey. It is entirely possible that since then interesting developments may have occurred in both the career of Ryan Dancey and the state of Pathfinder Online, but let’s be honest, the odds are pretty slim on both counts.)
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