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Reply To: Beyond the Monolith? Confusion!?!

January 15, 2020 at 8:05 pm #1472046

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@limburger that’s not entirely true, I have backed several kickstarters that funded slowly through the duration of their campaigns. However to hit 700k they would have needed a hell of a lot more time than 7 days.

My concern at the moment is that they haven’t learned the right lesson. The assessment that there is no appetite for the vs mode game isn’t true, there absolutely is an appetite for it. I for one would love a set of vs rules based on the Conan mechanic that I could play with my existing (extensive) Conan miniatures collection. But I am not prepared to pay €45 for a box of miniatures, 3/4 of which are duplicates of things I already own. The paper only faction boxes (stat cards, map tiles but no miniatures) were a real half arsed solution to a problem – here’s the rules, you will have to proxy whatever you don’t have. Everything about it felt like past backers were not a consideration when really they should have probably been their primary consideration. Start with a product that allows previous backers to get into the skirmish game with what they have, maybe throw a few additional new miniatures in for good measure but don’t sell people things they already own. Once you have that nailed look at how you can then create an additional product for new backers, with no previous content, to get in on the act.