I forget the specific moment / year, sadly enough the old AvP thread on the old forums seems to have gone the way of the dodo. That discussion went into great detail and the exact timeline. But to summarize Prodos eventually claimed that the reason so many people had outstanding Kickstarter orders was due to the increased shipping costs they couldn’t cover themselves.

On the one hand I could kind of understand that. Literal years had passed since the Kickstarter and shipping costs never, ever becomes cheaper over time. At the same time though, this was after years of virtual silence, blatant lies and a Kickstarter page that was closed due to a ‘copyright infringement claim’ that effectively allowed Prodos to cut off a fair segment of negative feedback (never mind the number of people who simply weren’t active on any other platform being left behind without any warning). Prodos also promised for over a year the page would be back, nothing ever came of that of course.

What’s more several people, including myself, had been trying to constructively help Prodos in their effort and communication. In fact I at one time proposed seeing if some people would be willing paying extra shipping to help cover their stuff / in the proces make it easier for Prodos to send stuff to others. In the end though all we got was ‘the offer’ where buying something else from the shop + shipping would move you to the front of the shipping cue get the V1 of the game. Something that in and of itself I still find very weird, especially given how adamant they were about not wanting to charge extra shipping by itself. I suspect some fiscal trickery going on there.

In my case it eventually took six shipments due to Prodos’ usual poor quality and packing checking. My ‘core pledge box’ was missing a bunch of stuff, while two other shipments simply had entirely incorrect stuff in them, another one had horrible miscast minis etc. All the while Kickstarter backers were herded into a separate Facebook group, with mentioning the Kickstarter leading to bans on the regular AvP page. Odd mix of extreme fanboys and dozens of disgruntled backer sin there, gets messy at times. So with every new AvP release, including a new version of the core game now, we still see people complaining about not having received a single thing or email for years now or still missing stuff / none core box stuff.

And to think Prodos has made literal millions in the mean time under the Archon brand, a name / company they lied about for months. Archon = 100% Prodos and effectively nothing more than an asset shift to tried to leave behind bad PR (with little success luckily).

As for outstanding items, I believe that would be the clear resin Predators. Some of those do seem to have shown up on their Facebook page, no word on how / if folks would ever get them. There were also 3D terrain pieces, but those were barely mentioned since the project finished. So we might as well consider those cancelled. Extremely hard to tell just how bad things are, especially with the Kickstarter page dead and buried and ton of folks getting banned in the early days of the group………..