Reply To: HEROQUEST – Hasbro / Ludofilia GameZone

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I think – though am not absolutely certain now – that anyone wanting to swap had to pay a nominal extra amount. Sure, they (probably) never said they’d ship it straight away, but I’d bet that most people assumed they’d get their copy sooner rather than later. It’s hard to think of a good reason why they wouldn’t ship a copy of a game they’d acquired from Hasbro.

And given that most people would (probably, and not unreasonably) expect to have been sent their copy sooner rather than later, it doesn’t instill confidence or engender goodwill to not do so – especially when they didn’t warn people at the time that they wouldn’t get their copy any sooner than the original game they were working on.

I think I’m generally pretty relaxed about Kickstarter deliveries. I get that things always turn out harder and more expensive than anticipated, and that some projects fail. What bugs me about these guys is that they seemingly had an opportunity provided to them by Hasbro to enable them to get something to at least some of their backers. And they don’t seem to have taken it.