Reply To: So the recent 9th age Kickstarter campaign failed to fund. Any thoughts on why?

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I think most people buying ASoIaF are buying it for the game.  If it was based on the TV series I might be inclined to say the opposite but it’s not.  Being based on the books, i don’t think either the game or the range of miniatures would survive if people were just buying for the miniatures and not for the game itself because the majority of the miniatures are just regular foot soldiers which could easily be represented by models from any fantasy or historical range. The fact they have an IP brand associated with them isn’t, IMO, enough of a reason to buy them and sales of the characters alone wouldn’t be profitable enough to continue producing, not when Dark Sword already produce a range of characters models in the same scale – in fact weren’t Dark Sword involved in the making of the miniatures for the game?  To me it’s not convincing enough to say that people are just buying it for the models and not for the game.  I suspect that the people buying ASoIaF may not be as numerous as people buying AoS or Warmachine but they are fervent fans of the books who are buying the game because it’s based on a particular IP and they’re interested in both the game and the miniatures as a complete package.