Robotech RPG Tactics Update from Palladium Books
July 13, 2014 by stvitusdancern
Palladium Books has posted an update regarding the status of their Robotech RPG Tactics Kickstarter.
According to their Kickstarter page they will be receiving their first shipping containers from the manufacturer in China later this month. With that they will start sorting and packaging their products to ship out to the early backers. They have also announced that they were going to take a small amount of starter sets along with some rulebooks and faction sets to GenCon to display and sell to a limited number of people.
Now of course this had led to some outcry from their backers because they will not get their pledges before some people are able to purchase it at GenCon and as everyone knows there have been several delays in the release of the product to backers by several months. Palladium Books has acknowledged this concern on the Kickstarter page and are asking backers to vote whether to allow them to do this or not. It should be noted that any non-response will be considered a "yes". It should be interesting to see how this will progress as we approach GenCon.
Since we will be there reporting, hopefully we can bring you up to date information. Are you a backer or fan of Robotech RPG Tactics?
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I’m a backer. And yes there have been delays. To be honest the delays don’t bother me so much. But the whiny approach that Palladium has taken with there reasons for delays is getting tiresome, and even unprofessional. As for them selling at Gencon, that doesn’t bother me since I know they need to push the game. What I don’t like is the way they have handled it. They are setting up the possibility of a disaster with the voting. Should never have down that. IMHO.
Not to disparage what is likely to turn out to be a fine product, but when all is said and done, I didn’t back this solely on the fact that Palladium Books and Kevin S. in particular were driving this. Nothing I’ve seen about this particular product development and release has surprised me, sadly. There hasn’t been a single product in over a decade that has been released from that company that isn’t accompanied by some form of crisis that requires the fans to rally up and commit to a cause. Kevin has a nasty habit of publically defending company… Read more »
… I liked it better when it was called Macross 😛
p.s. the guy who created Macross also created Optimus Prime 😉
… so … legend basically 😉
… I have some “Valkyrie” model kits at home …
they’re bigger then titans and they can transform ;P
… pretty good for £20 😛 ha ha
What does Harmony Gold have to say about this?
… normally, that Shoji Kawamori doesn’t exist ,
and that Carl Macek invented everything 😛
… oh, you mean about the delays ? 😛 ha ha
I’m sure they know the situation, delays happen sometimes …
anyway, I hear they are doing their own Robotech kickstarter right now,
so they’re probably busy with that at the moment …
I remember seeing Pre-orders for this last year on Miniature Market! I can’t believe it’s not out yet! And people give Cool Mini or Not a hard time for being late! LOL
having said that I love Robotech and the minis look cool so I guess once this initial backlash dies down we’ll see a pretty cool game!
Don’t give a crap about the KS being late, or the sales at Gencon. Will never get to gencon and everything that ships to AUS takes a while anyway. People need to get over themselves on this one, it is a KS and if you looked carefully at the KS while it was going there was very little manufactured/sample mini’s displayed, which spelt delays. It was obvious from the outset. Yeah, Palladium games couldn’t organize a F#@% in a brothel, but hey, why change 20 years of history in publishing? Again, it was an expected outcome for me, but the… Read more »
Sure it’s always buyer beware, but from an ‘investor’ perspective … they asked for $70K to fund, and ended up with $1.4+ Million. That at least implies at some level that the KS started with an assumption by the management teams involved that $70K was what was needed to get the ball rolling. Obviously, this thing has gone gangbusters, so assuming that they needed even 10x as much to get going, that still leaves almost another $700,000 in ‘problem solving’ money. I dunno, I can see why people are at least a bit miffed about what is going on, while… Read more »
I didn’t back this one and didn’t play much attention to what they promised, but I doubt that is the case. By way of comparison, the other big minis KS that Ninja Division (in the form of Soda Pop) were involved in was Relic Knights. That asked for $20K, raised $900K, and turned out to be underfunded requiring Soda Pop to invest their own funds to make up the difference. Every stretch goal that unlocks something new adds cost and time to the project, every new backer who pledges in exchange for product adds cost and time to the project.… Read more »
I am in on this kickstarter and I don’t mind delays as it is par for the course. Selling KS stock however is a low blow for those who supported the project but if it happened it wouldn’t surprise me (looking at YOU Mr Siembada), it would just be disappointing. 🙁
I can understand the angst @vagrantwhisper, but it isn’t helping the situation with all the “hate mail” and complainers demanding answers. $700 000 may seem a lot , but I have some small experience dealing with the Chinese factories in the “toy” business, an believe me it is small takings. Other companies, such as a certain Wallymart tend to buy squ times on the lines, and they but big biscuits down to jump the que, putting small projects like this on the “back” burner with less experienced engineering staff. This combined with palladium, well hell, it just had to go… Read more »
“they are not dipping into KS stock as far as I can tell for the Gencon, but selling the excess stock they are receiving, probably some of the cancelled pledges. They have stated the KS stock will be in the process of being or have been shipped by the time of Gencon” Not quite true – They stated in the initial update that started this storm that they would be receiving the stock in several containers and would be taking 200 copies from the first one to take to GenCon, so this is clearly stock initially tagged for KS backers… Read more »
Should say put big Biscuits down
I’m a big believer in Kickstarter stuff happening when it happens, I can wait for my Unseen minis (might have got a bit caught up in the campaign excitement and funded too much!), but the excuses and finger pointing since the KS ended bums me out a little.
I seem to remember that this KS ran at a similar time to Deadzone, I need to remember that I should always go Mantic if I have an option in the future!
Is it just me or are those not the dullest posed robot models ever? The concept graphics all have dynamic poses but any model pic looks like the system’s switched off and they’re stuck in a shed!
My only complaint about this situation is the idea that Silence is consent for them. They stated that anyone who does not vote at all, is saying yes to them selling the product at Gencon. That is kind of crap…
Soooo what your all saying is that I saved myself a big headache avoiding this like the plague?
I understand why they use Robotech name but I still prefer consider these as Macross. And no one can really blame me for that considering that I have seen Macross but I am not familiar with Robotech.