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Reply To: Plast Craft Games are in financial troubles

October 18, 2019 at 7:29 pm #1448387

limburger

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oh man … to have a partially shipped kickstarter and fail must be one of the suckiest things ever for everyone involved.
At least they’re smart enough to cancel their ‘Dark flow’ kickstarter, because I doubt they could complete it even if they reached their target.

@phaidknott : even in regular retail market these tiny companies would have failed.

There’s only so much new product shops can stock and people can play. The big boys always have the advantage, unless one of the tiny developers gets really lucky .
Kickstarter and the internet makes this process a lot more visible to anyone with even a minor interest in the hobby.

I think the bigger issue is that the average kickstarter needs to over-fund in order to have a chance of getting everything shipped to backers.

Mythic, Monolyth and Mantic aren’t exactly ‘big’ companies either …
Even CMON has the vast majority of their production outsourced to China so their total work force isn’t that big compared to any other industry.