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White Wolf Ends The World Of Darkness

Posted by simoniker on from the bye-bye-toodle-oo dept.

KrinnDNZ writes "So White Wolf has been providing us geeks with angsty roleplaying pleasure as vampires, werewolves, and various other beasties, ever since the early 90s. Guess what - it's over. I'll have to admit that it takes guts to have your RPGs' 'big story' include the end of their world, but they're doing it, and they've got a date, 171 days from now." This seems to mean that well-known pen-and-paper RPG titles like Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, and Hunter: The Reckoning are genuinely being retired.

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  1. hmmmm heck of a way to lay-off workers by BFedRec · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a good friend who's former roomie works for white wolf... I wonder if he's going to have a job in 170 odd days... I hope my company doesn't announce a personal armageddon anytime soon...

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  2. Oh yeah? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Informative

    > This seems to mean that well-known pen-and-paper RPG titles like Vampire: The Masquerade,
    > Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, and Hunter: The Reckoning are genuinely being retired.

    I think you didn't read *all* of the press release:

    > An all-new World of Darkness launches in August of 2004.

    Which only makes sense, really. Putting a permanent end to WoD would mean essentially White Wolf was going out of business. What else do they do?

    Chris Mattern

  3. Thank goodness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe now I won't have to worry about getting jumped by a LARP 'vampire' when I cut through the public park to get home after being out partying Saturday night.

    It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that I'm tired of kicking their asses.

  4. WW's done this before... by freeBill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...in 2000, when they did a year-long promotion, which was kinda like a long, drawn-out Y2K thing.

    I sit here looking at the Mage poster on my wall: "The Traditions stand in ruins... The Technocracy has won. Join the last stand in the war for reality." (Revised Edition -- March 2000)

    Just an excuse for a new edition of everything. It's sad when a once-creative company runs out of ideas. "Let's do the whole thing over again," is a sad excuse for an original concept. But "Demon," "Mummy," and "Engel" just aren't selling like "Vampire" and "Werewolf." Heck, they aren't even selling like "Mage" and "Changling."

    But they are selling like "Wraith."

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