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

[jamescutts 6955xp 1]

I see this very much as a Catalyst problem rather than a Kickstarter problem, of 90 projects I’ve had one failure and the closest mess to this one was the Joan of Arc Kickstarter from Mythic, but that landed smack in the middle of the event. Catalyst like Mythic appear to entrapping themselves in a self made ponzi scheme, be it intentional or not. They have 4? 5? ongoing Kickstarter campaigns, that feels a lot for a self proclaimed “small” company.

I very nearly also sold off all mine too @sundancer so i can understand that, but I kept it in part because I actually like BattleTech and I now have more than enough stuff to last me years. What this campaign has done for me and im sure it has done for a lot of others is put me off ever buying another Catalyst product, something I would have done as I had my eye on levithans when that hits retail and probably more battletech.

Instead they have just alienated me by their shoddy running of this campaign, particularly the communications and logistical errors, I can forgive and expect delays but the communication has at times bordered on outright lies , couple that with the attitude to shut down anyone comments that are not positive really gives a bad impression of the company. The comments on their recent campaign for frostpunk say it all, Catalyst where reporting those who where sharing past experiences as a way to censor them, thankfully Kickstarter reinstated those comments to be followed by a post from Catalyst saying people “were ruining the campaign for others”.

@limburger I hope you get your stuff soon, it looks like everyone is very slowly getting their stuff but I can very much feel the frustration!