Remember to horde your Hitmen!! Only. Sharpshooter. Ever!!!

That should be huge in helping convince someone to continue the line. Having produceable figures in the can could allow a new player (or maybe even Topps) to move forward much more quickly and with less transitional pain. Much more uplifting to have some of the old WK game design in figures going forward.

Lame and predicted.

Not to rub salt in an already sore wound but...

how many people flamed me for preaching the sky was falling just a couple months back?? Hmm? Ya, this is one of those times I really hate saying "I told you so", but I did.

A true tragedy for a great game with years of potential still left in it.

We can only hope the rumors are true that Heroclix will live on.

My feelings on the matter exactly.

My initial thoughts...

W T F ?

Hair10 was right!

I blame Tuttle.

I feel really bad for everyone working at WK right now. I wish them the best of luck and hope they can make it alright through the tough times ahead.

So now what?

I remember talking with a guy who owns a gaming store here in town around a year ago, and we were talking about Heroclix, he said then that he truely believed Wizkids would go out of business for variuos reasons, one was not doing a very good job supporting local events.
I kind of rolled my eyes thinking he had some grude against wizkids, even though he ran tournaments and sold every new wave, but after todays announcement, I look back at what he said and what he was hearing in the minatures community I shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss him.

I didn't do it really........ I guess once a Skrull always a Skrull....

My feelings exactly. also don't forget Special Powers and not colors rings.

As a long-time follower of the virtual card movement for SWCCG, I can point out a few problems with the system:
-Virtual Cards were oftentimes reactions to game loopholes and/or broken strategies that remained unfixed at the end of the game, making them uninteresting in many situations.
-Virtual Cards oftentimes would have a 'fanboy pet-theme' that would be run throughout the entire set, making previously-appropriately powered teams (like Ewoks or Jawas) that took huge tricks to do anything worthwhile with into dominant tactics.
-Virtual Cards were awkward to include in decks, as they required sleeves and looked pretty aesthetically wretched.

To translate these into Heroclix in a virtual-support system:
-We'd have tons of figures that neuter HSS, Outwit, TK, etc. while providing boosted versions of underused abilities just to see them used.
-We'd see representations of very weak-level heroes at arguably much too strong (Squirrel Girl actually being the 200-point fig we joke about, rather than a weird 50-ish point fig with an original power).
-We'd have oftentimes ugly printout dials stuck either on old figures or on... what? Where will the average joe get sculpts from? Not to mention the problem of dial tops.

If worse comes to worst, I hope it never comes to that bad.

Enjoying this a bit much, are you?

And to all those that are cackling while dancing on WizKids' grave... bite me.

actually, I don't know what to feel about it. I do think they do wrong with so many chances in Heroclix, specially because of Tuttle, and I feel peace for some reasons but I'm not happy that Heroclix is dead.

I believe in HeroClix. I believe in its viability as a product. I believe it will live on.

And if it doesn't, I still have thousands of pieces, and will still love playing and modding and making custom dials and all of that good stuff.

This is funny to me, in a way. I was wearing my HCRealms shirt in a random comic store just yesterday, and they started asking me questions about if I wanted to play and if I could get some guys together or run events. There are people out there that buy and want to play but just can't. Probably hurts the game more than anything. When I started, there was no local venue or local judge, and I hated that there was no way I could find where I could apply to be a judge without being sponsored first. I could have attracted and kept a lot of friends in the game with regular events and prize support, but they all got bored of home games for fun. And then we finally got a judge for the COG and AOS events, but it didn't attract or keep people interested because they had to spend so much just to participate, and then in the end, only one person got to go home with Galactus, so it really felt like there was no reward for their efforts.


"I know Clark says this's the end and all... but what do you think, Hal?"
"What're you talking about? This is the life, Wally. I'll see you tomorrow."

ZOMG! And I just started playing... *tears*

I'm not worried. Heroclix is a "viable product" it will continue on. It may change but with the way wizkidz was running it may change for the better.

The thing i'm most bummed about is that there won't be any official tourney's at Wizard World now.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

And, to be perfectly blunt, I'm going to lay at least some of the blame squarely at the feet of those individuals who did all they could to badmouth WizKids and the game. You certainly didn't do anything to improve matters.

-J