meatmancgy
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Wow... what next? From what I was told, Yu-Gi-Oh & WoW were 50% of UD's business... apparently it was an "amicable" parting, but I have also read that it has to do with both the Konami and the MLB lawsuits.
Upper Deck loses World of Warcraft license
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es_19
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this is huge. wow. can't believe this.
DougLaurieSports
Verified Trader,
Who's running the pool for the date UD files bankruptcy?
meatmancgy
Verified Trader ,
It's actually getting to the point where I'm feeling bad for them... not UD itself, but for some of the good people there. I sure hope they're updating their resumes.
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SingleDaddyof2
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The lawsuits and now this--whoever has the job of securing licenses at UD can't be happy. Their job just keeps getting tougher. I'm wondering how many licenses UD has left...
meatmancgy
Verified Trader ,
They have hockey (up for renewal in June), football and baseball players, along with some non-sports stuff (joint-license with Marvel with Rittenhouse).
This has to hurt - basketball (gone), yu-gi-oh (gone), world of warcraft (gone), baseball league license (gone). From what I heard, yu-gi-oh and world of warcraft were well over 1/2 of their revenues... take away basketball and they'll take a big hit on baseball (just like hockey people, baseball people don't like cards without logos), and that's a great big OUCH in the income department.
Someone has to pull a rabbit from the hat down in Carlsbad...
This has to hurt - basketball (gone), yu-gi-oh (gone), world of warcraft (gone), baseball league license (gone). From what I heard, yu-gi-oh and world of warcraft were well over 1/2 of their revenues... take away basketball and they'll take a big hit on baseball (just like hockey people, baseball people don't like cards without logos), and that's a great big OUCH in the income department.
Someone has to pull a rabbit from the hat down in Carlsbad...
cards-gotta-go
Banned User
Problem is that the rabbit died a year ago and nobody bothered to clean the hat...
vegaspuck
Panini America
This has been in the works for a while. Blizzard Entertainment was looking for a new venue for their TCG game including some revolutionary on-line formats. In fact, all UD was even doing for them for the past releases was just the printing. All the development and art was done in-house by Blizzard. It was purely a cost cutting move by Blizzard more than anything else. This isn't nearly as big as the Konami or MLB issues.
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quincy
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Be that as it may, Chris, is UD really in a position where they can wantonly lose revenue streams? I don't think so.
