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As a German somewhat familiar with German board game companies these two articles (polygon and board game geek) were really confusing because they focus on some
by wink 9y ago
As a German somewhat familiar with German board game companies these two articles (polygon and board game geek) were really confusing because they focus on some stuff that happened only in the last years and it's mostly about games I didn't in any way associate with the name Mayfair I had neevr heard of.
So if I got this half way correctly, the actual news is that really "Mayfair Games" (which is only a publisher, not a creator?) is shutting down, but the articles solely focus on licensed board games that originated somewhere else.
Timeline according to wikipedia:
1981 Mayfair Games founded
1995 Franck-Kosmos publishes Settlers of Catan in Europe
1996 Mayfair Games publishes Settlers of Catan in NA
1997 Mayfair Games shuts down
1997 new company: Ironwind, Inc
2001 succeeded by Mayfair Games, Inc (again)
2013 Mayfair Games publishes the games by Lookout Games in NA
2018 Mayfair Games(Inc?) is bought by Asmodee (French company, or maybe their NA branch?)
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair_Games
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmod%C3%A9e_%C3%89ditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmod%C3%A9e_%C3%89ditions
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Games
- cpitman 9y agoThe article is also about Asmodee purchasing Lookout Games. They bypassed purchasing Mayfair, which was publishing games created by Lookout Game's oversees, and purchased Lookout instead.
- wink 9y agoYes, but in an article lamenting the downfall of a 35 year old business entity I'd expect a little more than "oh btw it was resold several times and let's talk about the recent stuff they really didn't invent themselves". More harping on the original polygon article. :P