Reply To: Beyond the Monolith? Confusion!?!

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Monolith is pretty much only Fred Henry. Mythic no longer works with Monolith, and he’s lost investors. MBP 1.5 was a business failure, to the point where he’s mortgaged (?) his own house to pay for fulfillment.

So that’s why 700K. It’s realistic in the sense that I don’t think anyone wants a creator to risk his own home for a project (although it’s happened for other projects, including Cthulhu Wars, I think). KS is about passing on risk to the backers, and 700K will reduce the amount of risk he personally has to take.

That being said, Fred Henry is only interested in VS mode. KS is not a store, but it’s not an art foundation, either. Fred Henry said he’ll shut down Monolith if the project doesn’t fund, but if VS mode isn’t financially viable because of lack of demand, then that’s probably for the better. Who needs to stay in business when you don’t have a large enough market for your main product?

We’ll miss the miniatures and MB: Ragnorak. But it’s all too common that when a business shuts down, you lose stuff you liked as well as the ones you didn’t care about.