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Reply To: Beyond the Monolith? Confusion!?!

January 16, 2020 at 10:28 pm #1473204

limburger

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@onlyonepinman and if it is a dead horse we’re going to beat it until it starts breathing again … 😉

@bubbles15 given how fast some kickstarters have funded a realistic target and short funding period isn’t *that* barmy
The various Zombicide games have done close to a million in a day and their previous games reached similar amounts within a week …

You’re also forgetting that people (which due to taxes easily equates 2x their salary) + their office need to get paid during the year it takes to finish. All of that needs to be paid by producing a product that has its own margin.

Kickstarters have been pretty bad at showing true costs of (boardgame)production because of the tendency to use stretchgoals to keep momentum and reach the actual funding required during the campaign.

The company I worked for needed 100k / month to stay operational … and that was a company focused on software development with a small team of 10 (so need to pay for machinery, 80% of cost is personell). So if you factor out the need to reserve money for emergencies and assume a complete failure to attract new customers that’ll be a mere 7 month extension before you close up shop forever. But hey … let’s complain about the amount they dared to ask, right ?