A couple of new developments on the Alpharetta homefront…
One, the 2012 APBA Baseball cards are shipping!. The APBA Company posted a short announcement today to that effect. Along with the announcement is a gentle plea to hold off on the calls to the Company asking about the status of your order until January 15th (or to fast-track your order). That seems fair. It’s a busy time of year for a small office. Let’s not beleaguer them with calls like that.
Also, APBA has announced that they are “rebuilding its board games with larger charts, larger playing fields and better packaging.” Here is their announcement about it. Note that no sport is specified so I’m making the assumption that this change is across the board.
My first thoughts after reading this were, “Change is hard” and “I hate it already”. Of course, I haven’t even seen them yet. That’s probably not fair.
I probably didn’t care for the current set of baseball boards at first but have grown to like them. I admit, I never did like the multi-colored “color commentary” boards that came out 10-12 years ago and maybe that’s why I embraced the current booklet boards that went back to the no-frills results. We can embellish our own commentary, thank you.
As part of this process, APBA is also looking to change their current tagline “Satisfy your APBAtite” and wants your input. They are “looking for a message that extols strategy games over fantasy games but is short and sweet; for example, real baseball, not fantasy baseball.”
If you have a good suggestion for APBA, email them and let them know. Heck, go ahead and leave it in the comment section too.
Apba Sports
It’s not just a game anymore.
Nice, i like that
First off, I love the changes & I like the updates the company is doing, great job! My only question is this, cab we use older card sets with new boards & new card sets with the spiral bound results boards?
Shawn Kaufman:)
Hi Shawn,
First, I’m mostly open to changes. I just know that hard core fans are generally resistant to change… baseball fans more so and APBA fans even more so. ;-)
You raise a good point though. There was the situation with APBA Football game where the rules changed dramatically so that the cards weren’t compatible (as I understand it).
Without hearing any word from John Herson yet, my guess is that the changes are in formatting and mostly aesthetic. APBA has already started their movement to release (and re-release) seasons in the current format. It wouldn’t make sense to change the game engine mid stream.
Please tell me I’m right ;-)
Hi Thomas,
Thanks so much for the response & I’m with you & hope the changes aren’t to drastic. The changes I like must are the ones to the website & the marketing side. I would love to see the younger generation get in to playing the game. I would love to get my boys involved with like my dad did with me. I think thts how baseball is these days, like great family antiques tht get passed down:)
Shawn Kaufman:)
agree wholeheartedly. I’m trying to get my son involved via APBA Golf. It’s actually a fun game considering I’m not a big fan of the sport itself.
hard to compete with the game consoles though. We both had fun playing it once we got going though so there’s hope. :)
Tom,
How funny is this? We were discussing the “Old Charts” today and now this message? I won’t mind taking a look as I hate the color coded ones I have.
I must say, I like big boards and I cannot lie.