Whenever I think about Chaosium, I am always struck by the impression that they never quite survived their disastrous attempt at launching a CCG.

After that, it just seemed to be all about keeping the lights on at all cost: Good writers got burned, commercial collaborators got stolen from, fans were exploited, everything became about the endless recycling of old content.

@Taskerland I don't think there's any real overlap between old Chaosium, which went bust, and new Chaosium which is the Moon Design people wearing the hollowed-out husk of the company. Old Cha launched the card game, screwed over their authors, but had people who loved the games and wanted to produce good stuff for them (though they didn't always do a great job); new Chaosium want to produce stuff that sells, first and last, which may coincidentally be good.

@Taskerland Those usually only go suddenly bust when the cops are catching up with them.

@Taskerland I don't think there's any real overlap between old Chaosium, which went bust, and new Chaosium which is the Moon Design people wearing the hollowed-out husk of the company. Old Cha launched the card game, screwed over their authors, but had people who loved the games and wanted to produce good stuff for them (though they didn't always do a great job); new Chaosium want to produce stuff that sells, first and last, which may coincidentally be good.