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Reply To: Harry Potter 'Catch the Snitch' Kickstarter cancelled

November 6, 2020 at 7:25 pm #1579905

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KM’s treatment of the HP license for the HP game was a disaster. From a boardgame perspective, the miniatures were too brittle for a gaming audience, and the combat gameplay was pretty much “Harry Potter fights a bunch of spiders”. In hindsight, HP isn’t the same sort of IP as DC and Marvel. HP is certainly not a franchise about fighting and combat, and I’d say that a HP resin miniature has to be marketed particularly so that it reaches its target audience. Maybe they should have just released a series of miniatures? Dunno.

Looks like it’ll restart in a week, but who knows if they’ve learned anything from their original HP game mistakes. November and December are bad months for a KS because of the holiday season (Amazon is particularly aggressive with the boardgame market) and sometimes taxes (you have to offset income in one year with expenses in the other).