Reply To: (KS) Ninja Division/Soda Pop out of money for Super Dungeon Explore: Legends

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I agree that the company’s reputation is irreparably damaged.

One thing that Kickstarter does is allow (or force) the process of making products out into the light.

Ninja Division’s biggest property is Super Dungeon Explore- it probably accounted for half or more of their revenue when the company was healthy.  Announcing a new edition and then not releasing it for years sunk that property pretty hard.  While Super Dungeon could (and probably did) make up for losses on other properties, those flailing properties couldn’t make up for losses in Super Dungeon.

One of their biggest problems was fulfilling Rail Raiders instead of Super Dungeon.  The RRI fulfillment was smaller, and I think they were banking on it doing well.  But if they had instead done a partial fulfillment on SDL-  and released one of the two new core boxes for Super Dungeon- then they’d have a healthy core product that might be able to support them through the bad times.

I’m still inclined to think that this is due to miscalculations and mismanagement, and not criminal intent.  I’m not sure that it matters all that much to their backers, though.