board and card game publisher
Fantasy Flight Games
Industry Entertainment
A major tabletop publisher behind Arkham Horror, Twilight Imperium, Star Wars games, Marvel Champions, and living-card-game systems, owned through Asmodee. Fantasy Flight Games remains weak because of identity capture, ecological harm, and ideological disavowal, even where the product or service has practical value.
Why this matters: Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score.
Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1 Parent / owner: Asmodee
Fantasy Flight Games is part of Asmodee, which is also listed separately.
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The parent profile is currently rated D (Extractive, 22*). This subsidiary is not mechanically capped at the parent score, but parent control is part of the ownership, governance, policy, accountability opacity, reversibility, and harm analysis.
Evaluation Overview
D - Extractive
The score turns mainly on Product Integrity, with the largest penalty coming from Identity Capture.
Strengths
- Product Integrity5/5
- Extraction4/10
- Labor Sovereignty3/7
Penalties
- Identity Capture-3
- Ecological Harm-2
- Youth Capture-1
- Ideological Disavowal-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims9
- Direct axis claims8
- Coverage8/15
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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2 / 10 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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2 / 10 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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4 / 10 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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3 / 7 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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3 / 7 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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3 / 7 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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2 / 5 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Fantasy Flight Games publishes or sells recognized board or video games with real play, craft, or hobby value. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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3 / 5 |
Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Ecological Harm
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Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale,
including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued
after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
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-2 |
Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score. Linked evidence
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Youth Capture
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Manipulative youth-directed marketing, youth-data or attention
monetization, collectible/add-on traps, parasocial or identity capture,
surprise mechanics, or treating young people as lower-disclosure
consumers. Making useful toys or welcoming children is not itself
penalized. Range: -5 to 0.
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-1 |
Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score. Linked evidence
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Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-3 |
Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score. Linked evidence
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Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional
necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or
non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
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-1 |
Fantasy Flight Games's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Fantasy Flight Games shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened… Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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1 / 3 |
Fantasy Flight Games offers substantial play value in many titles, even though expansion cycles, licensed IP, and living-card-game models limit the Good Deal bonus. Linked evidence
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Cost Transparency
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Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate
cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency,
especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or
individualized pricing are normal.
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1 / 3 |
Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 68/100
9 verified linked claims 8 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 8/15 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 13/20
9 verified linked claims
Source quality 12/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
8 direct claims across 15 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 5/10
8/15 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Fantasy Flight Games has public-company subsidiary control rather than a verified worker/user democratic structure.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2Fantasy Flight Games publishes or sells recognized board or video games with real play, craft, or hobby value.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
3Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
4Fantasy Flight Games offers substantial play value in many titles, even though expansion cycles, licensed IP, and living-card-game models limit the Good Deal bonus.
- Fantasy Flight GamesGeneral web source · 58%
- Fantasy Flight Games productsGeneral web source · 58%
5Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
6Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
7Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
8Fantasy Flight is a major board/card game anchor: high craft and cultural value, but subsidiary ownership, licensed IP, expansion cycles, and identity capture limit the score.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
9Fantasy Flight Games's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Fantasy Flight Games shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint.
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Fantasy Flight Games official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Asmodee aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
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