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Refund processed in full for Deluxe Trains.   I feel bad, but it wasn't what was promised to the backers. dwarf74 posted:Oh wow those aren't even anywhere near "reddish" On top of that you have this nonsense: Infinitum posted:Terraforming Mars, a game about terraforming another planet as we have trashed the poo poo out of ours. Very glad I listened to Goon consensus on that one and didn't back.
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The bags were an honest mistake, but everything else is being more or less hand-waved. This box was handled by Stronghold Games for some reason, they've always been garbage and I've no idea why anyone does business with them. It doesn't help their reputation either that the German publisher for TFM is an absolute assclown who absolutely has to go his own way with everything instead of participating in the multilanguage Kickstarters, and refuses to provide gaming stores with various goodies - you can only buy the better boards directly from him, for example. At Spiel '18 or '19, he announced he'd be bringing "enough of the expansion for everyone" and was completely sold out after 3 hours or so. Dipshit.
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Stronghold have always been a garbage publisher who take good designs, produce them in the shittest way possible and then apply a whacking great premium onto the pricing. It was most obvious whenever they localised games available elsewhere for the US market. Calimala for example was easily available in Europe for a pretty reasonable price and then we all saw Stronghold get the rights and sell the exact same printing in the US for like 3x the RRP. The new Eggertspiele edition of Great Western Trail is significantly nicer, seems to have dual layered player boards and is CHEAPER than the original.
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Yeesh. I get that the realities of manufacture means that you're never going to get a real final product that looks as good as the render. But that poo poo is barely recognizable
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"We have one of the most popular games on the planet. Should we get 3D printed samples to show our backers?" "Yeah nah" CaptainApathyUK posted:The new Eggertspiele edition of Great Western Trail is significantly nicer, seems to have dual layered player boards and is CHEAPER than the original. I'm really looking forward to this release 2 new games in the franchise are also in the works.  Hoping the NZ version is dope. Oceania represent.
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The latest kickstarter from the folks who make the cats and dogs as D&D classes is winding down, and I just want everyone to take a moment and appreciate this magnificent motherfucker: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/russrmc/animal-adventures-the-faraway-sea
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Just paid shipping on the Early Ship options for the first three volumes of HexploreIt a few days ago. They're coming sooner than I expected, but with all of my boardgames in storage across the country right now, it'll be fun to do a deep dive on them and have something to play.
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Tsilkani posted:The latest kickstarter from the folks who make the cats and dogs as D&D classes is winding down, and I just want everyone to take a moment and appreciate this magnificent motherfucker: Holy poo poo this looks amazing and I want to paint all of the toys
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Agrias120 posted:Just paid shipping on the Early Ship options for the first three volumes of HexploreIt a few days ago. They're coming sooner than I expected, but with all of my boardgames in storage across the country right now, it'll be fun to do a deep dive on them and have something to play. Have you seen something about when they're coming? I hadn't seen any notification on their expected ship date...
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Infinitum posted:How it started The matte finish isn't even the worst part to me, it looks like they reduced the level of detail in the prints (Particularly the sides of the green train). I know that tends to happen with these miniature kickstarters, but... when you're just selling people dozens of copies of the same 5 models, I would've figured they'd do their best to deliver what their prototype's looked like. Even if you wanted to give these things a gloss varnish yourself, I think that would just highlight how gummy these look now. Desfore fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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Desfore posted:The matte finish isn't even the worst part to me, it looks like they reduced the level of detail in the prints (Particularly the sides of the green train). I know that tends to happen with these miniature kickstarters, but... when you're just selling people dozens of copies of the same 5 models, I would've figured they'd do their best to deliver what their prototype's looked like. Even if you wanted to give these things a gloss varnish yourself, I think that would just highlight how gummy these look now. Yeah, cancelled mine too. They just don't look very good.
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12 hour warning on Distilled. Will break the $500k mark, and everything about this looks solid. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paversongames/distilled 31 hour warning on On Mars: Alien Invasion - I'm backing for pledge manager access for the older games. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eaglegryphon/on-mars-alien-invasion
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Dunno if this has been posted before but Fat Magic is in their last couple days. If you're a sucker for food puns/conversions/items/magic/settings in games then give this a look. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hannaht/fat-magic-rpg-5e-campaign-setting/description
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Memnaelar posted:Have you seen something about when they're coming? I hadn't seen any notification on their expected ship date... In their latest update, they said it is looking like the first week of September if things go well (I'm sure they won't).
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Desfore posted:The matte finish isn't even the worst part to me, it looks like they reduced the level of detail in the prints (Particularly the sides of the green train). I know that tends to happen with these miniature kickstarters, but... when you're just selling people dozens of copies of the same 5 models, I would've figured they'd do their best to deliver what their prototype's looked like. Even if you wanted to give these things a gloss varnish yourself, I think that would just highlight how gummy these look now. Looks to me like they've even downgraded from the samples they sent Shut Up and Sit Down earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiZ0vxptsiU 1.03.58 if the time stamp didn't work. Captain Theron fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Regular KS project creator TMG have gone tits up.
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So result of the Pandemic, or stretching themselves too thin? --------------------------------------------- Upcoming games I'm interested about : Aug 3 - Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread - KS Page - By the Xia: Legends of a Drift System dev, Cody Miller. Aug 3 - Avatar RPG - KS Page - Agni Kai some motherfuckers  Aug 3 - Bug Council of Backyardia - KS Page - Very cute looking trick taking game. Aug 10 - Flamecraft - KS Page Ever see this art piece floating around the web? They made a game around it, with the same artist   Aug 24th - The Gardens - Prelaunch page - I'll probably back this regardless as it's a tableau builder about the Sydney Botanical Gardens near where I live, and the artwork looks great. Plus it includes the mighty Bin Chicken
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Infinitum posted:So result of the Pandemic, or stretching themselves too thin? The latter. This has been building up for a while now. The rot probably started with Gentes Deluxified, but they were definitely strained by the time of Belfort Anniversary Edition which barely managed to deliver at all. Then a week or two ago they cancelled one big project entirely and began issuing refunds. The fact that they are able to do so indicates fairly strongly that they were using each project to cover the costs of the last one, and finally reached the point where they realised project N wasn't going to pay for project N-1.
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I'm not super sold on Grinderbin's Mobile Market of Ridiculous Magic Items but there are at least a couple of funny ideas in there. Maybe worth a look if you like your generic fantasy a little silly?
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potatocubed posted:I'm not super sold on Grinderbin's Mobile Market of Ridiculous Magic Items but there are at least a couple of funny ideas in there. Maybe worth a look if you like your generic fantasy a little silly? This reminds me of the Steve Jackson Warehouse 23 random box thing, which surprisingly still exists.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dustbiters/dustbiters - Tim Schafer promoting - By a bunch of well known indie game devs However they are asking for $36 AUD before shipping for 21 cards in a box. Yeah nah.
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Infinitum posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dustbiters/dustbiters $27 in the U.S. which is still...I dunno. Button Shy's games (which are usually about 18 cards) go for $12, and they come in a cool plastic wallet thing instead of a box. I guess it costing a little double of one of those isn't outrageous, but that plus $5 for shipping is a bit much. Give me a $20 version without the box and I'd think about it, you know?
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StarkRavingMad posted:$27 in the U.S. which is still...I dunno. Button Shy's games (which are usually about 18 cards) go for $12, and they come in a cool plastic wallet thing instead of a box.
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Also, the cards better be incredibly self-explanatory for such a cursory rulebook with no examples or additional context. I mean, Sprawlopolis has about the same number of 'pages' (it's on cards, but you know what I mean) but has way, way more words. That makes me think it's literally just moving and destroying. From what I can see of the stills, many do seem fairly simple, but it only takes one uncovered interaction to drag it all down. Otherwise, it looks cool in a sort of Tom Bunk / Superjail sort of thing, which is pretty cool. More different looking games, please.
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LOL, is it just me or is there something weird going on with this campaign? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frcreator/final-redemption-tcg/description It looks like your standard amateurish-level KS that usually doesn't get funded, yet it raised like $240,000+ with 700 backers? And then it only has 48 comments in the comments section? Something seems really fishy.
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JazzFlight posted:LOL, is it just me or is there something weird going on with this campaign? I know TCG Kickstarter’s are rife with speculators looking to pump and dump limited run product, so it could be one of those deals. There were shenanigans around Metazoo after Flesh and Blood went insane last year.
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JazzFlight posted:LOL, is it just me or is there something weird going on with this campaign? Nah yeah, you're right. There's $151,205 USD if you add up the pledges. There is $241,820 USD pledged total. It is currently $25 USD shipping regardless of where you are - $17,525 for 701 backers So there is $73,090 USD in 'additional funding' pledged that is unaccounted for. Somethings fucky
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JazzFlight posted:LOL, is it just me or is there something weird going on with this campaign? It's being commented on at length in the BGG Worst Kickstarter Ever thread. It's fairly certain to move to the Controversial and Fraudulent Kickstarters geeklist soon enough, as the high end pledges keep dropping and refilling.
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Infinitum posted:Nah yeah, you're right. Add-ons?  It looks like he hired a company to do that KS for him. There's no way the guy who took a picture where his head is the lower third of the frame and you can see he's sitting on his couch did all that. Could be that they have a good Marketing department.
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Infinitum posted:Nah yeah, you're right. this is like the boardgame kickstarter version of some shady-rear end shitcoin that suddenly spiked from pennies to dollars
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Speaking of terrible kickstarters https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bogue/meepology-game-your-personality It's OKCupid, but you match with your ~board game personality traits~ that will recommend you new games. Let me show you how it works: 1.) I love worker placement games! 2.) I got to BGG and filter for worker placement games! https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2082/worker-placement 3.) I take a look at the Meepology Kickstarter page and close the tab!
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JazzFlight posted:LOL, is it just me or is there something weird going on with this campaign? All the comments have that air of culty salesmen shenanigans. “Yes! Locked in for the $100 pledge with 20 add-ons! So pumped!” Like, who talks like that?
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Arydia is live. This is a big BIG box with a big rear end price tag.. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/faroffgames/arydia-the-paths-we-dare-tread $258 AUD for the all in pledge  Looks like a looooot of game in this though. 50+ pre-painted miniatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNB1tw94DLk
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Infinitum posted:Arydia is live. Arydia sounds like it should be treated with antibiotics. Also "From the team that brought you Xia" isn't the slam dunk they think it is. Jedit fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Aug 3, 2021 |
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To be fair, regardless of what you think of Xia, the production quality was on point. Also to be fair, I am likely to sell my copy of Xia.
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JazzFlight posted:LOL, is it just me or is there something weird going on with this campaign? I only had a brief look but there's also nothing to indicate any previous hype or buildup. No quotes or reviews?
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Cat Face Joe posted:This isn't tremendously weird or suspicious. Lol, I didn’t know Trump was making KS. “People say to me all the time ‘thank you for doing this’.”
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Infinitum posted:Speaking of terrible kickstarters Oh please let me pay $14 for the privilege of letting you make money off affiliate links!
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