No Quarter is Dead

I never subscribed to NQ. I didn't really see the appeal or the point. But I understand that many people did enjoy the content.

This does feel like a cost cutting exercise. But digital is how the world is these days and most other game companies produce most of their content digitally.

There are some on other forums who are saying that this is more evidence that PP is dying and that WM/H is a "dead game". I don't think this is the case, but I am concerned about PP's community engagement at this point and going forward. They have really increased their social media presence and youtube videos. But I'm not sure that is translating into new players. The feeling outside of the WM/H groups is that our game is dead. We need to turn that around.

It's something I've wondered for a while now; who are these new factions aimed at? To a new player having 12 factions or 15 factions to choose from is all of a muchness. I'd also imagine that the majority of players only play one faction, so the fact that there are new ones probably doesn't matter much to them (I may be extrapolating from myself in that example; I'd rather try an entirely new game than try a new faction).

In that regard it puts me in mind of the mobile gaming scene, where developers have been known to focus on 'whales'; people who spend large sums of money on microtransactions. There was a Forbes article a couple of years ago that showed that 50% of mobile gaming revenue came from 0.2% of the players.

I'm wondering if PP are doing something similar; aiming their efforts at the smaller subset of players who will always buy the new hotness, or completionists who will always want to have all their faction models available to them?

No real evidence for it either way, just something that's been bugging me.

But separately, I hope that Monsterpocalypse and Riot Quest really take off. I'd much rather see PP diversify than risk it all on one flagship product, but it does feel like they're trimming themselves down to the bare minimum here.

Man, I own every single NQ from issue 1, long ago, to the last one. I'm sad to see it go, but it had a great run!

I have every issue of NQ, regardless of iteration. I'll miss it. I've tried reading on tablets and I despise it. Sad to see it go. The slipping away of fundamental aspects of the game does give me pause and seems a cause for concern. It's clearly not a "dead game", but I do wonder sometimes how close the twilight really is.

Now that No Quarter is dead, I should probably pick up the issues that have nice RPG material in them. I prefer print over any kind of future digital option.

Which issues had information relating to Cyriss characters in them? I thought they published how to make one for the new RPG.

What other good material is present for the RPG?

It was NQ 48 from 2013.

Other than that, the most important things that come to mind are the Rhulic rules and the Legion rules. 

Anyway, most NQ from around 45 to 60 have very interesting articles, all adding something (a little bit of extra equipment, a few new class variants, some new alchemical items, some new runes, or even some adventures or little encounters to help the GM in case he is out of ideas).

Don't know if they're trying to sell the company or not but with the game seemingly in decline in most places it seems likely they aren't doing so hot on the profits these days. I think 40K 8th Edition really kicked them in the shorts.