My point of view
Robert Wolkey said:
Dean Essig is producing the Gamers games, which is the reason they are coming out so fast. The same thing for Mike Rinella and his games. Brian and Perry lost the help of Steve Peterson, Russ Bunten and Curt which means they are now trying to do the work of 4 guys and still keep their day jobs. Under the circumstances they are doing a great job.
Years ago, MMP hired the ASL rights to Hasbro with the intention of keep the ASL flame alive.
Some years after, they bought The Gamers and the ASL community afraid this could cause a dispersion of effort in ASL products, but MMP guys said the cause was to use The Gamers as cash generator machine to ASL products.
I suppose the same with Shifting Sands and other games.
Now, they own the money but they don´t own the people to work in ASL products.
Why don´t they contract anyone to work and help in ASL products as Dean Essig do in Gamers products?
My point of view is MMP has lost the interest in ASL products, they don´t keep the flame ASL alive, they are a games producer as many others. So, they are interested in other AH games as Up Front, etc, but ASL is not the first object of interest because is a game with many problems, specially the need of republish old modules as ASLRB, BV , etc time and other time and ...
To reinforce this opinion, time ago I read that Curt was very interested in certain Gamers serie I don´t remember.
But, this is only my opinion.
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