What is the chance of factory sets made in the future ?

[Finisterle]

I want this game to survive as a classic, and not just some esoteric thing for a dwindling group of card spendoholics. The question is how you convince, say the chinese, that they need to buy the rights for this game and make affordable factory sets of it ?

[Yrael]

Frankly, the only chance of a re-release would be when The Hobbit comes out IMO. Nothing else will generate enough of a market to sell the cards.

[Finisterle]

0%.
-wtk

If you don't try there is zero chance of success, correct. But there are millions and millions of people in Asia with improving life quality and a hunger for western culture, and that includes Tolkien.

[Air Power]

Finisterle, I wish you were right.  However, I don't think
(a)LOTR TCG was established enough in Western Culture to attract their attention
(B)An Asian company that decided to produce the cards would bother to get copyright, which means that they couldn't sell them in the West
(c)A company which did bother to get rights to LOTR would also get rights to Decipher's TCG.  Similar to Wizards buying rights to Star Wars but not paying for the rights to Decipher's Star Wars games, I think any new production would mean a new game, not a continuation of the old game

[Yrael]

As I said before, the old company that might re-release it is Decipher when "The Hobbit" comes out, and even then it's doubtful

[TheJord]

Deipher does have the rights to The Hobbit, but we all now how Fight Klub went

[manson0815]

Yes Decipher is not clever enough to bring the ebst tcg out again and to beat Magic or WoW. And if they try it will be a new game to print and sell new cards .