Android: Netrunner - Project Nisei carries the torch

Dis' · April 2018

tzeentchling wrote: »

Yeah, I think both "Bold." and "Nice." are also going to become references now amongst the Netrunner memesters.

Bold and nice are already commonly used bantz though?

PMAvers · April 2018

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Dyh1XDh

Whispers scoops.

italianranma · May 2018

I'm doing a little spring cleaning, is there any reason for me to hang on to the 1.0 cards/set? Are they backwards compatable in any way?

Nisi · May 2018

A portion of them are still legal for tournament play , the ones that are part of the Revised Core set.

PMAvers · May 2018

Whispers UFAQ is up.

EDIT: And there's the prize support for EU and NA Championships.

I dig the alt-art False Lead.

MrBody · May 2018

I was considering running a play by post game of Android (the detective on a murder case one) here using Tabletop Simulator. Would anyone be interested?

PMAvers · May 2018

They finally posted the Regionals info.

Participation: Top 64 get Alt-art Amina
Top 16: Purple & Orange acrylic 1c/3c tokens
Top 8: Engolo playmat
Top 4: Spot-glossed plastic Kabonesa Wu ID

PMAvers · May 2018

And there's the Nationals prizes.

Top 64: Alt-art Reina
Top 32: Tinted plastic Hayley Kaplan ID
Top 16: Set of 12 silver advancement tokens
Top 8: Defense Construct playmat
Top 4: Spot-glossed plastic version of the alt-art Reina

Jam Warrior · May 2018

I'm trying a new gaming group and one of the guys there casually mentions he's bringing Netrunner this week. Apparently they got the core box years ago and just played their first game last week. As I also only have the old core box and C&C and haven't played in years due to my other stupid gaming group not being interested, I'm trying to keep a lid on my extreme excitement to possibly get to run some nets.

Clearly we're starting slow and casual and probably just old core boxing for a while but that'll do me!

Not that it particularly matters to us, but some of the original core set is now no longer 'legal' right?

Epimer · May 2018

Quite a lot of the old core set isn't tournament legal these days. Notably, Noise, Kate, HB:ETF, Accelerated Beta Test, Parasite, Medium, Account Siphon, Desperado, SanSan City Grid, Astroscript Pilot Program...

As you say, it doesn't matter for casual games.

Dis' · May 2018

Man 4 days to euros an no one in the community seems at all certain on decks. This is going to be crazy.

PMAvers · May 2018

Previews!

Anarchs and NBN from Reign and Reverie

Athenor · May 2018

Oh my god.

Is... Is Diversion of Funds essentially Account Siphon 2.0?

http://www.netrunnerdb.com/find/?q=diversion+of+funds

Edit: And High-Profile Target feels like Scorched Earth!

It.. it feels like the old days of my Criminal/Weyland self!

Edit 2: HOLY SHIT FALSE FLAG WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!

PMAvers · June 2018

2018 Season 2 kit info

Top 16: Alt-art Imp (with adorable Liiga art)
Top 4: Alt-art APEX or HB click trackers (there's two of each in the kit, and apparently the suggested way to distribute them is by choice, in order of placement starting with 1'st through 4'th)

PMAvers · June 2018

Oh wow, I love that there's actually five different Weyland ID's in the top 16 of Euros after Day 1.
(Argus, Jemison, Skorpios, Titan, and BLUE SUN?)

Good luck to everyone there!

Cerberus · June 2018

PMAvers wrote: »

Oh wow, I love that there's actually five different Weyland ID's in the top 16 of Euros after Day 1.
(Argus, Jemison, Skorpios, Titan, and BLUE SUN?)

Good luck to everyone there!

I made the cut and finished in 5/6 spot.
I was the only person to take a game off the Blue Sun deck!

PMAvers · June 2018

New article up today talking about Shaper and Jinteki in R&R.

Tomanta · June 2018

FFG lost the Netrunner license.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/6/8/jacking-out/

Athenor · June 2018

FUCKING HELL.

I knew it. I fucking knew this would be the way the game ended.

ArcticLancer · June 2018

Is anyone sure that they "lost it" and didn't "opt not to renew it"? How was the game's global presence actually faring at this point?

ChaosHat · June 2018

Ughhh I'm kind of glad I've lapsed on the last cycle but now I'm wondering if I just pony up to have the complete set for all of time. I'm kind of thinking it'll just gather dust.

I dunno, I'll probably have kids some day?

Bogart · June 2018

I haven’t played for nine months but it’s a sad day.

Athenor · June 2018

ArcticLancer wrote: »

Is anyone sure that they "lost it" and didn't "opt not to renew it"? How was the game's global presence actually faring at this point?

I trust Boggs at what he said. Why would he lie?

When I was first told Android: Netrunner was ending, I was… something. I don’t really know the name for the emotion that I was feeling. It was a mix of sadness, confusion, and nostalgia. It was weird. Maybe you’re feeling the same way.

In any case. No matter what happens I'm figuring out a way to get up to the final Worlds.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/6/8/android-magnum-opus/

Edit: Yay, boss just approved my vacation time for Worlds!

Shorty · June 2018

ArcticLancer wrote: »

Is anyone sure that they "lost it" and didn't "opt not to renew it"? How was the game's global presence actually faring at this point?

it seems unlikely to me that wotc didn't make them an offer

Tomanta · June 2018

I had been debating selling my small collection. I never really wanted to play competitively and didn't really get to play casually. I think I'll pick up the deluxes I don't have, maybe some of the other packs and keep it for "maybe someday".

My GF might like it due to the bluffing aspect...

Bogart · June 2018

We don’t know and probably won’t for a while.

ArcticLancer · June 2018

Boggs feelings have little to do with what I expect would be an executive decision above his head. The article plainly states the license term was ending, and says nothing about the reasons a new license didn't happen. I'm speculating on that clear lack of note in an otherwise reflective and emotional article. Nobody is saying "We fought hard to keep it going, but in the end ..."

Athenor · June 2018

Fair enough. I'll try to keep an open mind about things.

Tomanta · June 2018

I'd be surprised if it was anything other than either WotC not offering to renew or wanting to much $$$ to renew. There are other possibilities, of course, but those are my likely suspects.

ChaosHat · June 2018

Maybe WotC wants to do something with it? If they aren't going to do anything with it, at least getting SOMETHING for it would be better than nothing right, so why not renegotiate if FFG balks at the price?

Also, what exactly is licensed? As far as I know you can't copyright game mechanics right? You can copyright like, symbols and terminology and stuff. I'm just wondering what actually prevents them from keeping it rolling. They own the setting.

ArcticLancer · June 2018

Probably "Netrunner" as a license and system? Someone else will definitely have the actual answer to this. But it's got to be something around that since FFG still clearly has the right and ability to make other products in the Android universe (remember - Netrunner was thrust into that and not the other way around).

Since my original message didn't really state it, I am really sorry to see the game end. Much like Bogart, I haven't played in ages, but it was a really, really good game and I never wanted to stop playing it to begin with - it just turned more into something I, and the people around me, didn't like, and ... that's kind of how you close the book on an LCG/CCG.
RIP, old friend~

Shorty · June 2018

you can't copyright game mechanics

you can patent them, but doing so is extraordinarily difficult and I doubt any of the Netrunner stuff is patented

basically if FFG really wanted to keep making the game without a license they could, but they'd certainly have to stop calling it Netrunner, and probably some of the other terminology was licensed from wotc as well

anyway: because wotc has been interested in making more inroads to electronic markets, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they wanted to bring Netrunner home

but again, I think what happened is that FFG didn't want to pay more for a license, and I don't blame them, tbh

rent-seeking is a shitty thing

I needed a gnome to post. · June 2018

Guess they're hoping that L5R does well

PMAvers · June 2018

I mean, Lukas *does* work at WotC now, and he's been working on a secret project.

ChaosHat · June 2018

Shorty wrote: »

you can't copyright game mechanics

you can patent them, but doing so is extraordinarily difficult and I doubt any of the Netrunner stuff is patented

basically if FFG really wanted to keep making the game without a license they could, but they'd certainly have to stop calling it Netrunner, and probably some of the other terminology was licensed from wotc as well

anyway: because wotc has been interested in making more inroads to electronic markets, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they wanted to bring Netrunner home

but again, I think what happened is that FFG didn't want to pay more for a license, and I don't blame them, tbh

rent-seeking is a shitty thing

Excellent. Android: Netrunner is over. New, from FFG is Android: Webjogger! Now runners spend clorks to initiate jogs, install apps and gadgets, and gain kradits. Their goal? To steal plots from evil corporations!

"Clork one to jog on your recycling bin. Okay I'll make a jog on the Nerd Department then."

Shorty · June 2018

https://twitter.com/FoxfordComma/status/1005135446920216577

Mr. G · June 2018

Well, I’m super bummed

I was just getting in deep on it and now the cord’s been ripped

Athenor · June 2018

The one plus about this game is that it will still be around, in some form, and complete. If they have known the game is ending for a while, Reign and Reverie should make a good capstone.

Neaden · June 2018

I don't think they knew. If they did I'm not sure they would have released a new core and done rotation.

ChaosHat · June 2018

Neaden wrote: »

I don't think they knew. If they did I'm not sure they would have released a new core and done rotation.

Eh honestly the game is better for the things that rotated out being gone and the new core. This is a better snapshot of the game. Granted, maybe they would have just put out the revised core as a PDF instead of a thing to buy.

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