Asmodee had assured Eller-Bilz that nothing would change, but soon his shop and others under the French company were told to slow development of original games. The move away from fresh content was frustrating for Heiko Eller-Bilz, owner of German developer Heidelbär Games-the studio arm of a company that Asmodee acquired in 2017. That’s up from €442 million in 2017 and €125 million just four years before that, according to Eurazeo, a private equity fund that owned Asmodee from 2014 to 2018. The company declined to provide financial information or make any executives available for comment, but press reports say its revenue topped €550 million ($650 million) in 2019. Asmodee, based just outside Paris, owns about a dozen game publishers and has more than 750 employees, with operations in scores of countries. Like the Monopoly player who never rolls doubles or lands on Free Parking but suddenly has hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place, the company has quietly bought up game studios and distribution licenses. Today, those titles are made by a single company: Asmodee Holding. If you’d bought them a decade ago, they would have come from a half-dozen producers. Dusting off old board games or buying new ones over the past year in your effort to avoid watching Bridgerton, you might have noticed something about Catan, Pandemic, Game of Thrones, Ticket to Ride, Specter Ops, Agricola, 7 Wonders, and Lord of the Rings.
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