I lost about $450 on Super Dungeon Legends, Way of the Fighter miniatures and Relic Knights (I did not back Starfinder). The lion’s share of that was from Super Dungeon Legends (I was all in, I’m a big SDE fan).

I think it is strange that people are still talking like refunds are a thing that is or was possible. No, you wouldn’t have received a refund had they been more up front about their financial problems. The money that they don’t have to fulfill their project is the same money that they don’t have to refund you- so that option HAD to go away when it became publicly known that they were out of gas.

So if they had announced ages ago that they wouldn’t be able to fulfill, they still wouldn’t refund you the money, because they didn’t have it back then either.

Personally, I don’t think it is appropriate to call them thieves. From every accounting of the numbers, it seems like they’ve lost a LOT of money on this project- enough to sink their company forever. We know that the owners are currently unpaid- we do not know how long that has been the case.

I’m quite upset that unless a miracle investor shows up, one of my favorite games is dead. I’m also upset that they screwed up so much with money that belonged to me and other backers. Also, I believe that it is quite terrible that they worked out a deal with Archon without securing the funds they’d need to pay them. That is spreading their financial issues to others- and I do not think it is ok.

John Cadice continues to be unrelentingly optimistic that there’s a chance to pull this out. I’m not convinced it could happen, but I’d be overjoyed if he did pull it off.