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Monday, April 27, 2015

Wayward Kickstarters - Far West - To Release in May 201?

Gareth just made a May prediction for Far West's much delayed release. Wisely, he failed to mention which year ;)

I know it says "backers only", but I figure the $150 I plunked down on this nearly 3 1/2 year late Kickstarter gives me some room to play.

11 comments:

  1. I would start up a betting pool on this... but I don't think anybody would bet on the side of it actually making it out in May. Actually I don't think anybody would bet on it making it out at all.

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    1. I actually set up a "guess the date" pool on RPG Geek a little over a year ago. 30+ folks signed up, and only five are left standing (bunch of optimists!). Winner gets a $25 Gift Certificate (redeemable anyplace but the Adamant store).

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  2. Doesn't he need more time to plagiarize art? Last I saw of this he was taking other people's images and mildly tweaking them and calling them his own.

    And where's that Buckaroo Banzai game I paid for several years back?

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    1. That photoshopped "art" he's been doing is fucking hideous.

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  3. My wife and I are four years and three months in on our oldest undelivered Kickstarter. I wonder who of the Tenkar Travellers has had the longest wait.

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  4. My oldest, not delivered Kickstarter is a $110 pledge for Steampunk Musha from May 2012 ... soon to be three years old ... sigh

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  5. Tomorrow marks the three-year anniversary for the funding of Signal Fire's Met. Alpha. Since funding, Goodman Games lapped this version by starting a new Met Alpha KS about two years later and not only delivering on it -- but releasing a metric ass-ton of new products for the game during the SAME KS. Meanwhile, Signal Fire can't even get their single book out during a period three times longer.

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  6. I shake my head while balling a soft fist as I read these comments. On the one hand (the shaking-head part) it seems a black eye to all small-venture financing when these clowns take your money and faith (of sorts) and piss it away.

    On the other hand, the soft-balled fist, I think it's awesome that a great number of you are investing in potential, the very basis of American Enterprise. That's immensely cool in my book.

    Thanks for believing in America.

    -Rick

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  7. The only Kickstarters I've ever backed are Reaper's first Bones line and Kevin Crawford's Silent Legions. Given the kinds of reports I keep ready, Reaper and Crawford are likely to be the only Kickstarters I would ever back again.

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  8. My oldest unfulfilled is Champions of Zed which supposedly had books delivered last October. A few people have reported receiving their books in the past two months nearly three years late. I have nothing.

    Close is Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls which has delivered most or all of the add ons but not the Deluxe Rules.

    My best success is Kevin Crawford who is now a "buy at the top level as soon as I know about it" and Joseph Bloch, the Greyhawk Grognard, who has done fewer products but who has the same done early tradition. He is a "buy in but not necessarily at the top level" but that has more to do with how his products align with my needs than quality.

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  9. My oldest unfulfilled is Champions of Zed which supposedly had books delivered last October. A few people have reported receiving their books in the past two months nearly three years late. I have nothing.

    Close is Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls which has delivered most or all of the add ons but not the Deluxe Rules.

    My best success is Kevin Crawford who is now a "buy at the top level as soon as I know about it" and Joseph Bloch, the Greyhawk Grognard, who has done fewer products but who has the same done early tradition. He is a "buy in but not necessarily at the top level" but that has more to do with how his products align with my needs than quality.

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