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Funagain.com is going out of business. Big warehouse sale.
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Mar 1, 2018 21:59
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Spirit Island solves the alpha player problem by having a huge amount going on. I like the game, but it's a little busy to say the least, and I can't help think that somewhere there a group playing it that takes 2 hours a turn as they check every possible move ...
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Mar 1, 2018 22:03
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Lorini posted:Funagain.com is going out of business. Big warehouse sale. Their website seems to be melting.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:12
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Lorini posted:Funagain.com is going out of business. Big warehouse sale. B-but online game stores are destroying the industry! (time to scoop up some cheap wargames)
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Mar 1, 2018 22:18
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Lorini posted:Funagain.com is going out of business. Big warehouse sale. I wonder if it has anything to do with their taking on shipping enormous kickstarter orders really poorly.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:22
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OgreNoah posted:I wonder if it has anything to do with their taking on shipping enormous kickstarter orders really poorly. They shipped Gloomhaven, right? I don't know if they screwed up other orders but I don't envy the logistics required to ship a 22lb box to 40,000+ people.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:28
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Ethnos and Viticulture arrived today.  These are my first big box games. Feels so good. I did a double take when I opened Viticulture and all the boards were in German. I turned them around and whoops, silly me.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:28
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To clarify, Funagain is closing their online store. The brick and mortar store will remain open but yeah, I imagine part of this is that the online market is small but extremely competitive.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:30
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Lorini posted:Funagain.com is going out of business. Big warehouse sale. Had Viticulture EE in my cart for $25 but the site crashed and now its out of stock 
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Mar 1, 2018 22:31
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Yeah, I tried to get through the site having server errors, but it looks like what I wanted was pulled straight out of my cart.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:50
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al-azad posted:They shipped Gloomhaven, right? I don't know if they screwed up other orders but I don't envy the logistics required to ship a 22lb box to 40,000+ people. They do a poo poo ton of Kickstarter fulfillment, not just Gloomhaven. If I had to guess they're probably going to use the warehouse for all KS stuff unless they're pivoting completely to their retail stores.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:57
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deadwing posted:They do a poo poo ton of Kickstarter fulfillment, not just Gloomhaven. If I had to guess they're probably going to use the warehouse for all KS stuff unless they're pivoting completely to their retail stores. Using their warehouse exclusively for KS stuff makes more sense in a market where you can't really beat CSI. Board game kickstarters are only getting bigger and somebody has to ship it.
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Mar 1, 2018 23:04
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Mr. Squishy posted:Something I've seen happen a lot in Deception is people constructing a narrative for themselves how someone could be gassed near a computer or whatever, and then giving answers that fit their story but don't actually help the players. I blame CSI. Back from the dead to remember finding this exact same thing (and others agreed). Fat Turkey posted:Yesterday I played some Deception in Hong Kong on Tabletop Simulator, I'd played in real life before so I knew the rules.
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Mar 1, 2018 23:13
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Also we had enough players that we could play with the witness and accomplice. I can't really imagine the game being as good without them, and with lower number of players even the owner admitted that the game relies too much on getting good clue boards. Also he had the KS stuff and one of the murder weapons was a dice tower which I don't think it's that funny and apparently almost ruined a previous game that they had. I'm interested in playing it again though, setting up a PBP of it would be cool. Anyone done it already?
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Mar 1, 2018 23:21
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al-azad posted:Using their warehouse exclusively for KS stuff makes more sense in a market where you can't really beat CSI. Board game kickstarters are only getting bigger and somebody has to ship it. Actually just got a update from the KS for The Networks expansion that Funagain is not going to do KS fulfillment anymore either. So, if anyone's looking for a business to get into...
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Mar 1, 2018 23:58
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If anyone has Kemet / Cyclades and wanted to try the Creature Crossover expansion without buying Kemet / Cyclades, Matagot finally has both the Cyclades and Kemet creatures in stock. https://www.matagot.com/shop/en/74-spare-parts https://www.matagot.com/shop/en/spare-parts/102-7-kemet-creatures.html
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Mar 2, 2018 00:49
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Those Funagain prices are insane, but not really worth the price of soul sucking page refreshes and empty carts.
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Mar 2, 2018 00:56
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Alternate joke: the Funagain prices seem good, but once you factor in the price of the blood pressure medications you'll need after navigating their site, it's not really worth it.
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Mar 2, 2018 00:58
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What's the free shipping threshold? I finally got a cart and the 15$ shipping put it's sale on par with Amazon. 
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Board Game Purge chat has got me looking at Ebay for some completed sales on stuff I own. I have 2 copies of Fury of Dracula and one of Battlestar Galactica still in shrink. Dracula is going for $140 and BSG for $100  edit: what's the best way to sell these? ebay? facebook groups? canyoneer fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Mar 2, 2018 |
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canyoneer posted:what's the best way to sell these? ebay? facebook groups? I've bought and sold on a FB boardgame group in a large city (823 group members). Top 50 BGG stuff will always sell if you offer at a respectable price. Anything heavier/rare/more niche may never sell. Kickstarter flippers are generally despised. BSG and Fury of Dracula would probably sell easily but you won't be able to price them up very high. People really want and expect a good deal.
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Tekopo posted:Also we had enough players that we could play with the witness and accomplice. I can't really imagine the game being as good without them, and with lower number of players even the owner admitted that the game relies too much on getting good clue boards. Also he had the KS stuff and one of the murder weapons was a dice tower which I don't think it's that funny and apparently almost ruined a previous game that they had. The difficulty is super adjustable - you can size up or down the number of clue or murder weapon cards or change how the forensic investigator clue gets boards - draw 2 pick 1 or whatever. I jettison all the events out the back through as they are dumb.
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FunkMonkey posted:Speaking of horrible eating habits, back when Nemesis was in full swing someone suggested Lifeform as a potential alternative if you were interested in the theme but thought Nemesis was overmuch. You can watch a prototype playthrough here if you're interested and the designer estimates the kickstarter could launch next week. Cool! I’m a sucker for Alien games. Although I’d prefer to be able to solo it I’m sure someone will cook up some rules. Let us know if the KS goes live.
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Played three games of Spirit Island. First game two handed solo and then twice with a friend. Final game was Brandenburg/Prussia level 2 and was pretty intense. We ended up coordinating a roving band of natives I'd move around once or twice and Rock spirit would use to power a Ritual of Destruction up to three times a turn. The combos you can pull off are pretty varied and getting past the initial hurdle of being completely overwhelmed is really satisfying. Game is good.
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Lorini posted:Funagain.com is going out of business. Big warehouse sale. Get on this while you can, despite the site errors. I watched two Arkham LCG expansions and This War of Mine disappear right in front of my eyes. Still managed to pick up Whitehall Mystery based on talk in this thread.
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Yeah I've had several items go out of stock on me while still in the cart. Also between the Java errors and Cloudflare errors, sometimes all your items inexplicably disappear from your cart. Happened to both me and the SO. We lost Trains Rising Sun as it went out of stock as a result. 
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I couldn't find anything I wanted on the Funagain sale, so I guess I was too slow. On a different topic, I think I like Ponzi Scheme so much because it is abstract euro Jenga. And blitz Jenga is awesome. Also, you can somehow run a 90 minute teaching game of Ponzi Scheme with relatively new players with no board game experience past games like Ticket to Ride.  
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Some rear end in a top hat got Wing Leader right as I clicked finalize order but I scooped up 1805 and Festung Europa for cheap cheap cheap.
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Doctor Zero posted:Cool! I’m a sucker for Alien games. Although I’d prefer to be able to solo it I’m sure someone will cook up some rules. Let us know if the KS goes live. Me too, I'll update when there's news. The creators are trying to finalize manufacturing details on their current big project and plan to launch Lifeform once that's completed.
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That's a fine comic, golden bubble, but I wish they had used chirons or even drawn on little nametags.
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Mr. Squishy posted:That's a fine comic, golden bubble, but I wish they had used chirons or even drawn on little nametags. It’s from a running webcomic and they are recurring characters in addition to being parodies
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And they're all listed at the bottom of the site "which philosophers appeared in this comic" The candyland one is the best one, anyway. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/58
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I own a Disney branded copy of Candyland with a spinner. My girls fight over who gets to be Minnie Mouse.
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What are all of the D&D board games in the Castle Ravenloft board game format? I know there are multiple in that series (Castle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon, Legend of Drizzt), but I don't know if there is a name besides "d&d board game" to look those up by. I think Temple of Elemental Evil is another one, I don't know if there are any others besides the ones I mentioned though and I'm not entirely sure how I'd find out other than sifting through a bunch of search results.
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Spirit Island is so good I went ahead and ordered the promo spirits. After ordering I found out that Greater Than Games HQ is just down the street from my office, so I wondered if I could convince them to let me just pick it up. I doubt it. At least shipping at the normal rate was sub two days (for a package that needs to travel less than 2 miles).
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FirstAidKite posted:What are all of the D&D board games in the Castle Ravenloft board game format? I know there are multiple in that series (Castle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon, Legend of Drizzt), but I don't know if there is a name besides "d&d board game" to look those up by. I think Temple of Elemental Evil is another one, I don't know if there are any others besides the ones I mentioned though and I'm not entirely sure how I'd find out other than sifting through a bunch of search results. You just listed all of them except the newest, Tomb of Annihilation. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/9547/dungeons-and-dragons-adventure-system-board-games
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Lorini posted:Funagain.com is going out of business. Big warehouse sale. drat, this is what happens when I actually play board games, I miss out on huge sales. The site is a wasteland now, littered with naught but broken dreams and Hasbro Games titles. And Funko Pops. Lots of Funko Pops. Keiya fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Mar 2, 2018 |
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Keiya posted:drat, this is what happens when I actually play board games, I miss out on huge sales. The site is a wasteland now, littered with naught but broken dreams and Hasbro Games titles. And Funko Pops. Lots of Funko Pops. Shipping killed sale price anyway. Unless you had a lot you wanted to get.
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