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

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If the product is late due to manufacturing being delayed then there is little fixing one can do as all the fixes need to be done before manufacturing starts.
Extra play testing effectively means that there will be errata and fixes the moment the product arrives and that can leave a bad taste.

Of course companies can’t just shovel crap out the door and keep getting backers for their kickstarters.
I think that (IMHO) Mythic has been ok. They’re not perfect, but I don’t get the impression that they willingly released a bad product based on their efforts so far on fixing problems. There will always be people who demand ‘more’. I think their Batman games are the only ones that were a bit of a dissapointment, but I put that down to the kind of tunnel vision that can occur during development/playtesting.

OTOH … it’s not like non kickstarter companies always deliver quality products either.

Companies need to make hard choices … and the customer isn’t their priority when those choices get made.
So a substandard product does get shipped from time to time.

I think the one disadvantage that Mythic have is that they haven’t decided on a core product that they’re going to support ‘forever’. Although Super Fantasy Battles appears to be headed that way.

And as with many things … Covid has limited the amount of physical contact, which is bad news for play testing as that sort of stuff is limited when you’re not able to talk face to face with a physical product in hand.
I hope SK hasn’t suffered, but we’ll see when it gets here if that is true.

I must admit that I’m never one who is worried about rules too much.
I probably wouldn’t have had a problem with the SPQR rules as others clearly had.