Call of Cthulhu CCG

I'm a fan of the Call of Cthulhu CCG. I think it has a cool theme, obviously, but I also think the resource mechanic is among the best I've ever seen in a CCG, and actual play is interestingly confrontational without just being about hitting the other guy with stuff. A while back it stopped being a "collectible" card game, and they started releasing cards in fixed Asylum packs instead. While it was a little disappointing to lose the "I got a [whatever]!" enjoyment that comes with a CCG, it did make it easier to collect playsets of things, and I was happy that the game still existed in some format.

FFG now has an announcement that they're going to make it and A Game of Thrones into what they call "Living Card Games," which appears to mean they'll both follow the Asylum Pack style of realeases. In fact, the only change for Cthulhu appears to be that starting in October they're going to make the releases monthly.

Ack. Didn't AEG do this sort of thing once before, and it was called Rolling Thunder? Didn't that almost kill L5R and cripple Doomtown and the second version of Rage? All of that aside, I don't think I could afford to keep up with playsets of the new decks. I'd need to buy 4 of these things every month to do that and that's going to get expensive quickly. I don't think a month is enough time for a game to stagnate and require new cards. I also can't imagine that a release schedule like that would allow for much playtesting.

I guess we'll see how it goes, but I'm not particularly optimistic. = P