" Empire In Peril Kickstarter – Significant Progress" Topic
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| Guthroth | 23 Jun 2017 1:36 a.m. PST |
As someone who has been posting about this project for some time, I am pleased to report that things are finally moving.
Mark Lowther brought Mike at Black Hat on board and he is overseeing the project with good results. A large number of pledges have been sent out, and the rest are proceeding as Mike can fit them in with his own projects. Mark has now admitted it was a project too far for him to manage on his own and that Mike should have been involved much earlier on.
Given the bad publicity that has attached so far – some of it from me – enormous thanks and respect is due to Mike for stepping in and getting this all resolved.
I pledged for Germans, Brits and a character pack, and the Germans and characters arrived this week. (The two characters are in fact already painted !) Mike has promised the rest of the pledges (mostly British I understand) will be sent out as soon as they can be cast and collated (by the end of July), so it looks as though the project will finally have a happy – albeit very belated – ending.
It's been a rough ride, but it won't stop me from backing KS projects in future, although I might be more wary of those being run by new or very inexperienced company.
As an example of this, another KS that I backed sent out an update this week saying their delivery would slip by about a month because the KS take up (105 pledges) was more than they expected. Where this company shine however is that they have sent out a total of 24 updates in 3 months so they have at least kept us informed. Anyway, 1 month late scarcely even registers when it's a Kickstarter … |
| McWong73 | 23 Jun 2017 2:14 a.m. PST |
A real one month delay would meet my definition of super fast when it comes to Kickstarter deliveries. But I've heard many a Kickstarter say "one month delay" and then see it turn to two, three, four, five month delays and so on. |
| Guthroth | 23 Jun 2017 2:43 a.m. PST |
I'm happy with delays of 3 months as long as there is communication. This one ran into the sand 12 months ago but communication ceased. Unsurprisingly the backers got irritated. |
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