What’s up Champions?! BananaCrapshoot here for a special urgent weekend update. As I’m sure you are all ware. Pandemonium has taken over the world over the fear of the Mexican beer virus, more commonly known as the Corona Virus. I want to spend a few minutes talking about the effect this will have on our beloved super hero card game, and what it means for The Side Scheme and the content we are putting out.
How this has affected the world is quite incredible. I can’t find a roll of TP or hand sanitizer anywhere. Luckily my wife had a brief stint as a “couponer” before the birth of our third child so I have a seemingly unending supply of off scented liquid soaps and glittery hand sanitizers. Now if you don’t know what a “couponer” is, it’s when you buy 13 Sunday newspapers, cut out the coupons, then go buy stuff you don’t need in bulk to “save money”. Sorry for the tangent, but was just trying to say that this is having a huge impact. Sporting events have been cancelled or post phoned, schools are closing, everything is seemingly shut down.
We already know this apparently pushed back the release of the story box, now known as the Campaign Expansion, I am excited for this and I hope it’s a narrative driven experience, to Q4 from July. I am afraid we won’t have releases from the Hulk hero pack in June until the story box in Q4. That lull could be really bad for the growth and future of the game. The game has had a good start so far and I’d hate to see it drop off terribly and get out on the back burner. Besides the story box delay I wouldn’t be surprised if OP kits and other things get pushed back. Could be a long drought of releases for us. If the game gets boring I recommend checking out the home brew content out there, lots of it is challenging and well designed.
So what doesn’t this mean for The Side Scheme? Absolute Nothing, we will continue to love and play this game. We will continue to put our articles 3 times a week. We will continue to produce a podcast of questionable sound quality every 2-4 weeks. And we will continue to occasionally put our twitch streams and YouTube videos.
Now we hope those infected recover quickly and that this thing blows over sooner rather than later obviously. The projected peak of this mess is May so that doesn’t look likely that this is a fix. Make sure you wash your hands, and hopefully you have products to wipe other things. For more information on the virus visit the cdc website here https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2Findex.html. We hope everyone stays safe. Stay Scheming Champions!
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