KeyForge rumblings
Sep. 10th, 2022 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellThe funding campaign to get KeyForge restarted is live at Gamefound and already well past its minimum funding goal. Ghost Galaxy has promised that this is a one-off campaign; future sets will be published in a normal manner.
Just a week and a half ago, a podcast episode went live with an interview with an ex-Fantasy Flight Games marketer who confirmed the rumor about ransomware. According to him, FFG never even made an internal announcement about it. He just started noticing there were things he could no longer reach on a backup server and then asked people in the IT department until someone finally told him that it was a ransomware attack. FFG lost a lot of work, including the deck-building algorithm and then next two or three planned sets of KeyForge beyond the one being funded now.
At Worldcon, I taught KeyForge to a couple people and played it against one person who hadn't played in a while and another who's still active. I had a few unopened decks with me and planned to open one if I ran into another person who was current with the game, so I did that and discovered I'd had this sitting on my shelf for two and a half years:
That's an Anomaly card, the rarest of the rares. This is only the second one I've ever seen in person.
Just a week and a half ago, a podcast episode went live with an interview with an ex-Fantasy Flight Games marketer who confirmed the rumor about ransomware. According to him, FFG never even made an internal announcement about it. He just started noticing there were things he could no longer reach on a backup server and then asked people in the IT department until someone finally told him that it was a ransomware attack. FFG lost a lot of work, including the deck-building algorithm and then next two or three planned sets of KeyForge beyond the one being funded now.
At Worldcon, I taught KeyForge to a couple people and played it against one person who hadn't played in a while and another who's still active. I had a few unopened decks with me and planned to open one if I ran into another person who was current with the game, so I did that and discovered I'd had this sitting on my shelf for two and a half years:
That's an Anomaly card, the rarest of the rares. This is only the second one I've ever seen in person.
