Asmodee – Hell Dorado is finished

Thanks to Jean for reporting that Asmodee is ceasing their production of Hell Dorado:

Original link here (translated from Babble Fish):

Asmodee stops the edition of Hell Dorado.

The news fell like a chopper, for financial reasons independent of Asmodee but unfortunately and simply related to the clean profitability of the play, Asmodee will cease the edition of Hell Dorado.

I was always very transparent on our delays, our productions, our failures and our desires relating to this play, it appeared at the very least important to me to continue to be it today.

This being said, all is not… not yet… Not, all is not finished.

The current location of the play and its team is the following one: it should me have been announced to the guy of Nantes, with probably some of the best sculptors and illustrators of the medium, that Asmodee separated from them at the end of April.

The play will continue however to leave until June. This week leaves the company Immortal, in March will leave an Immortel reinforcement and a Occidental reinforcement, a Sarrasin reinforcement and a Démon reinforcement in May and finally a Égaré reinforcement and a Mercenaire reinforcement in June.

To continue to leave these products obeys two ideas: the desire for making properly the things so much by providing a play is finished little so fine it must have there; to leave open the possibility of finding a transferee.

I am indeed since the beginning of the week seeking a possible transferee interested by the play. I think of all the possibilities: a simple transferee, the creation of an Open licence allowing several transferees to work on the range without running of too large financial risks and thus multiplying the possibility of orders freelance for the artists who created this range, the possibility of selling the play in précommande on Internet with figs resin or metal so as to reduce to the maximum the costs…

In the two days space of many tracks, more than I imagined it initially, opened with me. I would keep you obviously of the evolution of the things.

We have the advantage of having many things interesting for a possible transferee, many concepts and technical profiles for the months to come, of motivated people, the translation already paid in English of the play with 80%, the profiles 1635 in English and finished French with 99%, two novels written/read again/paid, without counting the moulds, of the figs of demonstrations…

Exits until June is also to leave time to a transferee to organize itself to start again the play with its sauce as of the end of the holidays.

With regard to the Com’ part of the play, I leave the word to Nico:

Organized play:
The tournaments storyline programmed until the end April are maintained. The material of play, the equipment, etc All will be sent. In the same way, the results of these tournaments storyline will be taken into account within the framework of news published on the site.
The official tournaments programmed in May June are cancelled (including the event pioneer of at the end of June).

During the living room of the board game (25/April 26) will be held the ultimate tournament Asmodee/Hell Dorado, “the tales of Dyu” which will completely integrate the immortal faction into the universe. This tournament will proceed over 2 days with a great freedom of participation so that each one can come at the time when it can.

Pioneers:
Although for the moment this program inevitably any more does not take place to be, we will accept all the candidatures which we received so far. The candidates pioneers will receive the agreed material (figurines, decorations, T-Shirt) in Mars. We thank right now all those which contacted us and which wanted to be invested even more in this project. The avant-garde of the pioneers will be among the first with being held with the current in the event of resumption of the play to reinvest the shops and the clubs.

The shop Primae Materiae and sponsorships:
The follow-up as of these operations will be assured until July 31. You can thus continue to send your points of Primae Materiae and your bulletins of sponsorship until this date. We will put on line before long the Tee-shirt and the Sweat shirt envisaged since so a long time.

The official pages Devastates:
We will continue our collaboration with Ravage until the n° 53 (exit June 2009). Here contents of the two last n° concerning our play:
N°52: presentation and analyzes forthcoming Western officer, 2 scenarios loan to play to test the immortal ones against 2 quite precise factions.
N°53: 2 scenarios to test the immortal ones against two other factions. Assessment of the storyline, to enclose the year 1635. One hopes to provide in this article a chart of the hells, work started for some time already.

Here thus the situation such as it is today, five days after the fateful decision. I can only imagine your disappointment, your frustration, your interrogations. I wanted to be clearly immediately, before even the exit of Immortal, to leave you the choice leave the boat while it takes water.

You known as perhaps that this decision is strange, that its timing is as, as the community was growing bigger, that the play took a second breath. You say although all your interrogations and your fears divide we them. But the fact is that the decision is made, one will not remake the history, and that today my only goal is to look forwards, to try to find a means of continuing to make live Hell Dorado, to continue to make work three sculptors and an illustrator.

I am at your disposal to answer your questions… but it is necessary to leave me a little time because there, suddenly, time accelerated. I would make in kind inform you regularly here. I also will try to find time to answer the mps on standby, with the emails… I would do it, leave me a little time.

Here, you know all. I would understand perfectly that you want us to leave, that you are disappointed, but I hope that you will follow us until the end… by hoping with us that there will not be an end but a continuation.

Geof

PS: if you want it well, avoid épiloguer on what could, should have been done… in any case it is made. Thus so yesterday does not interest me much, on the other hand I am taking of any idea on what can occur tomorrow. And in all the cases thank you to have followed to us up to now.