I would personally throw caution to the wind, accepting even mediocre material (after all, the new company is going to hire at least some of the old hands back) in return for the current crop of rascals being shown the door on a permanent basis.TheFlatline wrote: I should amend that the retcon/reboot option almost *always* happens when a new company takes over the IP.
I am not entirely sure of the post-3132 direction... it seems to involve a lot of ginchy BattleMechs making a comeback in various forms, and a lot of fighting among the remnants of the once-Great Houses. Or so I gathered from the MW:DA materials I saw online.TheFlatline wrote: If for whatever reason Topps awarded the IP to a different company there might be a significant chance of rewriting some history or as was also posted, jumping forward 50 or 60 years and retaining the history, but not the direction BT lore is going in.
I actually would not mind someone writing scenarios where an IndustrialMech was the best you could get for the job at hand. Things would be seriously down powered, but you could do it.
The trouble is, we'd see tanks become ascendant again and this ain't 'TankTech', it's giant stompy robots. So the transition would have to be very, very brief.
Or so it seems to me.
Do you think Shadowrun would have to endure something similar?
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