Reply To: Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game – Shipping surcharge

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@slayerofworlds It did not explode in Choas. The game is 2 YEARS LATE the customer base have been very patient in waiting for Mythic to deliver it. This issue with the shipping was brewing for months. People kept asking Mythic about it because we feared something like this was coming. Mythic said nothing the update in June was everything is on track the products would soon be in the warehouse.

So to do a u-turn in the next update to say your goods are here and you need to pay more now to get it. How did they expect people to react to that ? Certainly when they did not say sorry for it, or made it clear what happens if you dont pay. I am sit it here with 330 dollars on the line being asked to pay more or risk losing it that is not a great position to put a cusomer in.

@limburger You right in the sense most projects over run. However Mythic dates for delivery are not even ball park accurate. It is not just this project it is all the projects that are late even before COVID. They present this product in the kickstarter in an far more advanced state than the reality. They set a date for deliver that at the time they where still in the design phase.

What Mythic did rather than focus on the project that was late and throw more resources at it to finish it quicker was move on and release 5 more large kickstarters. All with over bloated content  spreading those resources even thinner across more projects.

They have come unstuck with Anastyr because a lot of the customers who back previous projects they have not delivered yet said enough is enough. They lost that trust because it does not feel like they are focused in making your game 2 years later they are more concerned with the next project and doing the marketing for that.

The kickstarter is a lie. They cannot make Anastyr  for 200,000 they know that we know that even 1 million will see them lose money over it making just 5,500 copies. They wont deliver by Jul 2023 and they knew this as well. They have 5 other projects to get through the factory and out the door the schedule does not allow for them to make it on time and they knew this setting up the kickstarter.

They created the problems trying to spin to many plates in the air, bloating the staff and costs with large projects and long over runs. They lost focus on making games instead focused on making kickstarter campaigns.