Reply To: Soloman Kane KS about to arrive, and I couldn't care less!

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I am totally unconvinced by the hype argument to be honest. I backed the original Conan game by Monolith and that was well over a year late, in fact it was beset by delays almost straight away as they had some issues getting Kickstarter to transfer the funds to them. Conan had absolutely loads of hype and I think it might have been the first (certainly one of the first) boards games to pass the $1m mark. When it eventually arrived I didn’t suddenly just shrug my shoulders and and put it to one side because the delays had killed my excitement. Why? because it was still Conan!  In fact I was more excited about it because it was late, it was Conan The Barbarian for christ’s sake!

I think people need to ask themselves why they are  excited about a kickstarter.  is it because it is something you really, really love or is it because you feel like you should be excited because everyone else is?  I guess if you don’t feel excited by it when it’s delivered late, you probably don’t love that thing as much as you think you do.  But I don’t really think that’s the fault of the people making the game. They can be responsible for it being late, but in most cases, not for recipients not being excited to finally take delivery of the product.