The end is fucking cancelled

This is a very negative sounding post about me being positive, or more likely an excuse for me to ramble on without have an actual point.

We all enjoy Malifaux and it's a great time to be involved it the game, there are tournaments and events every week all over the country, there are amazing new releases on a regular basis and most importantly there are hundreds of gamers passionate about the game.

This wasn't always the case, even newer players can remember a time when you had to hunt around for a Malifaux stockist and your chance of finding a regular game let alone a well attended event was weak. I don't want to sound like a doomsayer but that time will come again.

All games have peaks and troughs when it comes to popularity both in local metas and on national levels it's in the nature of most gamers to love the new shiney or to get burnt out on the regular games. 

We're seeing it a lot right now with people getting hooked on the current  load of kickstarter payouts like Guild Ball and Wrath of Kings. If the games are good some people will switch completely, some will drift between games and some will run back with a renewed love of Malfaux.

We saw it with the release of M2e the new edition was the end of the game it killed everything people loved about the game and at the same time it's saved the game it fixed everything people hated about the game.

In the end the spirit of the game remained strong and with the work of Wyrd, their growing army of henchman like the Legend that is David Brown running events, Mike Marshal running the rankings and the nationals(who I always want to refer to as the Jeremy Clarkson of Malifaux, but Mike is actually a nice bloke so I can't) and the talents of the many podcasters, bloggers and the twitter-faux community the game is where it is now.

The long rambling point of this is that Malifaux started small, grew, died and come back and took over the world and one day a long, long way off it will die again but all it will take to bring it back is a few hard working players willing to run the events where only 5 people show up. Keep offering demos when your club is off playing the new big thing.