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

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Anyone considering that any company is their ‘friend’ is in for a dissapointment sooner or later.

Kickstarters sell you a promise to deliver a product.
There is no need for them to deliver a good product, because they have your money already.
There is no need to meet any deadlines, unless they are retail related because they have your money already.

Heck … the only reason these deadlines exist at all is because any time the product (or the materials required to build it) is sitting in storage is costing them money. And their only reason for shipping it is to make sure it stops costing them money.

Mythic simply were lucky when their initial projects managed to deliver on time and on target.
That meant people expected them to be on target for the next ones … so the delay for SK simply hit harder than any other kickstarter that failed to meet its expected deadlines.

There also isn’t any amount of testing that can prevent a 1st edition product to be perfect.
I’d even argue that to expect such products to be flawless when it is pretty obvious that it is a new type of system is wishful thinking at best.

I do expect Ragnarok to be less problematic, because they do have the previous game in the series to build on.
Solomon Kane is heavy story based adventure … not something they’ve done before.

Joan Arc was another unique style of game with practically zero practical examples to build on.
Same applies to Darkest Dungeon and Reichsbusters.

They are fixing Reichsbusters with an errata pack … which contains reprinted bits because they wanted to make it a more complete product. They could have done the errata. To me that says that they wanted to make the product better for everyone.

As for v1.5 Joan D’Arc … instead of a mere expansion we’re getting both updated rules and a new expansion. They could have done the expansion and let their customers deal with the crappy rules, but they didn’t.

As nice as all of that is … they’re still not our friends.
They do what is best for them.

You don’t have a meeting with a close friend.
You’ve got a meeting with a stranger you gave money to in advance who may or may not have something interesting to offer.
It is up to you to decide if you’re still interested if they delay the meeting over and over, but your loss is already a given.
It is up to you to decide if their excuses are valid or not, but you’re not getting the money back either way.

I haven’t seen anything that made me question their decisions. At best I never realised how complicated the game itself was going to be, but that’s their problem … not mine.