Black Industries announced on 28 January 2008 that it would be exiting the roleplaying game market. "The Thousand Thrones" Campaign was their final "WFRP" publication. On 22 February 2008, Fantasy Flight Games announced that it had acquired the exclusive rights to publish board games, card games and role-playing games based on Games Workshop properties, including Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. The "Career Compendium" and "Shades of Empire" were FFG's only publications for second edition before it announced it would release a new edition of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game. On 12 August 2009, Fantasy Flight Games announced 3rd edition for immediate release, packaged as a single box containing four rulebooks, over 300 cards and counters, with 36 custom dice. One year later FFG released the rules as standalone books/PDFs, allowing gamers to play the edition the traditional way (without boxes or counters) for the first time. On 12 August 2014, Fantasy Flight Games announced that the third-edition product line was "complete" and that no further products would be released for this edition. In September 2016, the companies announced an end to their licensing agreement. All Games Workshop-licensed FFG products were discontinued at the end of February 2017. On 24 May 2017, GW and Cubicle 7 announced a fourth edition of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay saying it would take "its direction from the first and second editions of the game". The fourth edition was released in digital formats in August 2018 with physical release in November 2018. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay shares the same doom-laden background as the "Warhammer Fantasy Battle" (WFB) wargame, with a focus on the Empire. Since it is a game devoted to individual characters rather than to entire armies, "WFRP" depicts the setting in much closer detail than its wargame counterpart. This change of focus also transforms "WFRP" into a more grim and perilous game than WFB. The primary setting of "WFRP" is the Empire, a region of the Old World based loosely on the Holy Roman Empire, with a number of baronies, counties and dukedoms fashioned after the fiefs of elector counts and dukes. Other prominent regions include Bretonnia, initially based on medieval France, later reinvented using strong Arthurian mythology themes; Kislev, based on medieval Poland and Imperial Russia; and the Wasteland, whose sole city of Marienburg is based on the Low Countries. Other lands not explored as thoroughly but still frequently mentioned include the fragmented lands of Estalia and Tilea, fashioned after Spain and the city-states of Renaissance Italy respectively, and Araby, a mixture of Arabic Caliphate and Persia.