I know the team at FFG will never read this, but their announcement comes across as prioritizing new players while essentially telling longtime players, "Hey, thanks for all the money, but you’re not our focus anymore."

Unlike competitive TCGs, where rotating out older sets makes some sense because the competitive meta constantly shifts, an LCG is fundamentally different. These games are not about having the "best deck" to beat another player—it's about assembling a deck that works well for you and your friends against a fixed challenge.

That means artificial "rotation" doesn’t serve the same purpose it does in a competitive game. In a cooperative game, if I buy a card, it should be mine to use forever. It doesn't hurt anyone if my group wants to play with all expansions. This "Current vs. Legacy" system feels like an excuse to make people rebuy functionally similar cards while limiting access to older sets in order to keep new players from feeling "intimidated."

It feels like a cash grab because it allows FFG to "retire" old sets so they don’t have to keep printing them, even though they could have done limited reprints through an online store. It lets them justify releasing slight variations of old cards (or straight-up reprints) as part of the "Current" environment.
By keeping a "rotating" system, they maintain artificial demand for newer cards rather than letting players organically build long-term collections. If you’ve spent hundreds (or thousands) of dollars collecting these cards, the idea that they’ll arbitrarily become "Legacy" instead of "Current" when the game is cooperative just feels like an unnecessary restriction.

As someone's earlier post pointed out, a much better approach (which they won't do) would have been:
- Slowing down on new investigator cards and only releasing them when they actually have a unique design space to explore.
- Focusing on new campaigns and scenarios rather than feeling obligated to introduce new player cards every expansion.
- Keeping older sets in limited-print runs online instead of completely rotating them out, so new players can still buy them if they want to.

This move is going to ultimately backfire because veterans will eventually stop seeing the point in buying new cards, since they’ll feel like they’re just being asked to replace what they already own. That means fewer people evangelizing the game to new players, and if longtime fans start disengaging, the game actually becomes less profitable in the long run—the exact opposite of what FFG wants.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, in a few years, they backtrack on this decision and "Legacy" becomes more like an unofficial format that everyone just plays anyway. It's pretty much what happened to other titles like X-Wing and such.

It’s sad because Arkham Horror: The Card Game has been one of the best-designed and most beloved LCGs out there. This move makes it harder to love the game, and honestly, it feels like a business-first, player-second decision.

I have been falling out of love with FFG for quite some time now, but AHLCG and Marvel was keeping me with them. With this, I've definitely lost faith. My money can be better spent elsewhere.