I am about to bring the package to the packstation. I am actually coming out 10€ more than I payed but then I also built an insert for this.
As the game is going to be available again “shortly” I assumed I had to sell now as I do not really want to have 2 copies of it. But I am having a bit of a difficult moment with it because while I payed the recent shipping+tax from the campaign the other day, I later saw that there is some controversy about the amount the shipping costs especially for the smaller orders… I just saw that most of it was taxes and for the fully blinged copy with the plastic chips and insert I kind of expected to pay that much. Still on the “high” side but apprently they are charging almost the same for sending out just 2 decks of cards and that is shit.
After the recent on-goings with Rallyman Dirt, Subterra and what I read in the Fantasia games update about their take over of the original pledges of a game called “Sweet Mess” (they are fulfilling what the previous rights-holder failed to do apparently, the story sounded positive but still an example of a mess)… I have been evaluating ALL my open pledges for “risk”…
- There is 1 I have given up on but it was a cheap indie game… …
- Another I had almost given up on is sending updates that they are about to deliver but they also recently had a rather “high” shipment payment (that I payed)–first timers, took forever, really curious how the game will be
- the biggest “open” is Unsettled currently, this was an expansion campaign in which I backed the base game as well. A recent update suggests middle of the year for delivery… let’s see. Expansion campaigns seem a little safer … but both Rallyman Dirt and SubTerra show working from existing stuff is no guarantee the campaign ends in success.
The rest: most are from “reputable” publishers that I doubt will “go under” and yet…
So far I have not been burned. All the campaigns I backed have delivered. That I am sometimes disappointed in the games is a completely different story. I’ve been careful with bigger pledges so far and I think I will be even more careful in the future.
Have any of you checked out gamefound’s stable pledge? What do you think about that?