Reply To: BattleTech: Mercenaries – CGL does a shipping booboo? Internet rages!

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One of the big aim’s of this Kickstarter was to get product already in the pipeline into production faster than they currently can with their standard release schedule. It might be different in cheeseland @limburger but over here in the UK and i’d assume in the US Battletech has worked its wait quite well into retail channels, be it the big box US store deals or FLGS over here in the UK, its pretty common to find now. Admittedly certain things are not always stocked very well but on the whole there’s a pretty consistent retail presence along with several products released to retail throughout the year.

I don’t think this KS will have  lasting impact on Battletech, yes its not been the best run and its certainly delayed (as to be expected with KS) but the game isn’t going to tank or anything because of it, its a pretty stable product for the most part. I don’t think the short term picture painted has been good but longer term the projects been successful in getting  a huge range of new force packs to market much faster than the standard pipeline would allow.

While theres some worryingly similar aspects to CGL to Mythic there not really at the same point or level, Battletech is a well established retail product now, in part due to past Kickstarters.