Interview with VS Marketing guy

Found this interesting, its an interview with VS marketing manager from start to pretty much finish.
Reveals abit of info on the internal going ons at UDE and answers some of the questions i always had regarding the rise and fall of VS.
Its a good listen to if you ever cared about VS as a game instead of a cash cow at any point in time.

Part 1

Part 2

Free Comics to a collector

Hey there,

I'm currently clearing out my old hobbies at the moment and I have a number of comics which I am willing to give away to any comics collector to keep, collect and read and NOT to sell.
Not that comics are worth anything anyway these days.

Most of these are from the early to late 90s I believe and they are mostly Marvel. I'm keeping the good stuff, namely DC and Udon.
From memory some of the stuff includes

Avengers
Xmen
Uncanny Xmen
Silver Surfer
Darkhawk (Entire run or close to it)
Secret Defenders
What Ifs
Thor
Thunderstrike
Quasar (Entire run. Maybe. If I can bear to part with this.)

Also have
Operation Galactic Storm
Executioners Song
Infinity Gauntlet
Infinity War
Infinity Crusade
Spiderman 30th Anniversary 4 issue holo cover.

Secret Wars TPB (Its as thick as a text book)

A handful of Birds of Prey (From when writer Gail Simone starts) One of the best runs imho
Some of the stuff around Supermans death.
Justice League Europe
Hawk and Dove complete run (This was a good series until near the end)
Some Amalgam one shots

You're probably wondering what I am keeping
JLA entire run (These are going to be buried with me when I go)
All the Udon comics (Streetfighter and Darkstalkers)
Armageddon 2001 storyline (Something like 10 DC annuals)
Marvel Vs DC (Yes I know this is a shocker but still)
JLA/Avengers (Not as bad as the above but a missed opportunity. Batman and Cap lightly taps each others hands and feet and they call that a draw. Weak Sauce)
Voltron


Anway I'm in Sydney, so if anyone is interested let me know. If you are from another state, I'm happy for you to pay shipping for it.

Any unwanted VS commons, uncommons and rares from Legion, Marvel Team Up, Worlds Finest, Marvel legends and DC Legends glaldy accepted.

DC Legends

Unfortunately there is not a VS game in Sydney to be had.
I am still quite excited by this next set.

The sweetest playmat ever.



Aquaman, Lord of Atlantis
Barry Allen <> The Flash, Crimson Tornado
Barry Allen <> The Flash, Founding Member
Batman, Founding Member
Hal Jordan, Founding Member
Hal Jordan, Fearless
Superman, Metropolis Marvel
Wonder Woman, Ambassador of Peace
Wonder Woman, Founding Member
Sea Creatures
Lasso of Truth
Indestructible
Telepathic Link
Terminal Velocity
Koriand'r <> Starfire, X'Hal's Fury
Bart Allen <> Kid Flash, Generation Fourth
Tim Drake <> Robin, Titan in Command
Follow the Leader
Starbolts
The Joker, Killer Smile
Lex Luthor, Megalomanaic
Scarecrow, Chiroptophobic
Evil Genius
Injustice for all
The Joke's on you
Deathstroke the Terminator, Killing Machine
Poison Ivy, Intoxicating
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Merlyn, Direct Hit Man
The Demon's Quarters
Robotman, Cliff Steele
Misfits
Lobo, The Main Man

What has happen to VS

I'm not sure in what context this is in..ie last month, last 3 months or last 6 months but apparently...

Here are the top 10 selling CCG's right now:

1. Magic
2. Yu-Gi-Oh
3. UFS
4. Pokemon
5. VS
6. Fullmetal Alchemist
7. WWE Raw Deal
8. Naruto
9. L5R
10. Clout Fantasy


I think the problem with VS is it has a very cut throat type of scene. Casual players and "fun decks" is non existent and the buy in to VS? Playset of EoME, which is just retarded, as is the card. This card was only printed because barely half the teams ever released were considered not playable competitvely, so UDE released this under the guise of it will give you more options. This is to cover up that alot of teams just dont work when you play single team decks even when committing the deck to the teams strategy.

Ironically VS pays out the most but with whats happened to Europe it really makes me nervous what the Pro circuit / 10K schedule is for next year especially for Australia.

It would seem for a game to sell well, a casual scene needs to be established whether it is thru

1. kiddie/fanboy licensing
2. good support for local organised play
3. card pool/game mechanics that allow for fun/semi competitive games

Right now VS has maybe the first point. But for a superhero game there was and still no Spiderman deck, no Batman deck, no Superman deck...xmen barely scraped in this category with pheonix stall and now mental. Its not really making good use of the licensing.

Ofcourse with WoW coming next month this will shake things up whether it has $$ tournaments or not. If it sells well is that going to effect VS even more in terms of player base and support?

Phoenix Rising