Reply To: Battletech Gothic – early April Fools Day or real?

[frankelee 1475xp 1]

GW may wish to defend their Battlefleet Gothic IP, but they and everyone else are free to talk to an American lawyer for $500 and find out why they have no chance of winning. And I know James has $500, so there won’t be a lawsuit.

Catalyst may have not done a PERFECT job delivering either Battletech campaign, what with their being late by an extra year to some continents, and probably a few hundred people with missing orders or missing pieces of orders still waiting for customer service to successfully help them. And I’m sure I will never get anything for my ‘Mech salvage boxes that had vehicles in them. But Catalyst has successfully delivered this project overall, and I’m not sure what warning people on a new campaign could accomplish. “Guys, they eventually deliver what they said they would to 99% of backers.” “Guys, they are making money hand over fist and will be solvent for a decade to come off their Battletech forcepack sales from this year alone.”

I think tabletop gamers should try making friends with people in the industry, or even just any manufacturing or sales industry. Every company has a failure rate, and yes the customers on the receiving end of those failures are often very unhappy people, but where is this belief that Catalyst are a fly-by-night con game or failing entity coming from? It’s another conversation on the internet that is 180 degrees off from what the conversation is back in the real world.

And as far as Battletech Gothic goes, I bet it will sell out. People really like these new plastics, they’ll shell out for some interesting new models. I think they’re also probably thrilled with breaking the internet over it, but the hype/controversy immediately went overboard for what is just another boxed product out of over 20 boxed products they’ll be releasing for sale this year.