It’s crazy to me that the Collusion pledge manager is still live. Back in February of 2019, I was waffling about buying into Millennium Blades but wasn’t sure if I would find an audience among my friends for the game. So I ended up cancelling the pledge I had.
Later, I picked up the base game on a BGG Auction and scheduled a game with a couple of friends who are former Magic the Gathering tournament players; the game was a hit and I went around picking up all of the expansion content I could find. And then in June, I did a late pledge for Collusion plus the one expansion I wasn’t able to track down anywhere else.
Yeah I saw that the game was long overdue. I am curious if they will keep to the most recent announcement of shipping the game this summer, but I am in no hurry.
Hi pillbox thanks for the welcome.
It’s a wonderful world is a real favourite of mine I love how tight the game is and how you can never predict if tactics or strategy Will win the day.
Ascension is an expansion which I hope to love as much.
Starlight was a bit of a punt if I am honest, I like to play games with my family and I have a tendency to dominate the wins in competitive games. This can be disheartening for the others. So I like a good co-op… I can at least avoid being ‘alpha player’ if not my competitive streak.
Honestly, it’s not the restraining myself right now that’s a problem. It’s restraining myself a year ago when I wasn’t running out of space and had friends over regularly to play boardgames. Now I can’t get rid of anything because stores are shut down and I can’t go anywhere and so my only recourse would be the garbage (I categorically refuse to throw boardgames away. Someone would enjoy them, even if it’s not me.). And I can’t play the games. But I sure will be getting like eight of them in the next couple months. sigh
(I mean, I do want them, just…it could wait. Like, a year or two.)
Not only am I really unexcited about the prospect of selling stuff to individuals (it feels complicated and messy to me), but I don’t have any way to ship the games at present. In theory, companies will do pickup, but I don’t have the materials and I live in an apartment building, so it’s not super viable.
I was thinking in the more medium term…
I had had no issues with dealing with folk on these sites they tend to be ok. I appreciate that is anecdotal but a few of my mates also trade games with very little trouble.
Also repurposing the delivery boxes of the new games is the method I adopt.
I just have never liked the idea. I don’t know what to charge, I don’t know how to get payment, I don’t want to try and find buyers, etc etc. I’m sure all of these things are soluble but I fundamentally don’t want to. Same reason I never interact with the player economy in MMOs.
Yeah selling is messy business unless you have a trusted circle of a local group. I’ve shipped out games a few times and it’s always gone well but the hassle of packing and a trip to a depot with the anxiety of not being sure if it’ll survive the courier’s bludgeons or if the buyer will be difficult or a downright snake doesn’t make it worth the hassle. I try to advertise decent savings locally for the convenience and then hike the prices to more reasonable rates if I’m going to be shipping.
TBH I’m not far off getting to the point of giving away games to friends now - and that’s something I never thought I’d say!
I’m finally backing a Level 99 game, with Bullet. A STG-themed real-time puzzle battler is right up my alley. I can’t help but think they’re cutting out a much wider audience with the theme and the unexpectedly grand production though, honestly. Just the same, I’m in for the deluxe version—the wooden bits will be a significant gameplay improvement in a game like this (and should be the standard, IMO).
The Kickstarter description is slightly different than the one on BGG for that game.
On Kickstarter it is
Each heroine wields a different power that changes the game - master paper, gravity, guns, music and more…
Whereas BGG is
Each heroine’s powers manifest in a different form, with players controlling sound, paper, technology, gravity, triangles, and more!
The BGG one resulted in a friend and I imagining the first meeting of the heroines…
“Hi! I can control gravity. What’s your power?”
“Oh, I control sound. How about you?”
“Uh… I control triangles?”
It looks from the kickstarter that “triangles” is still a power in the game, even if they’ve wisely de-emphasized it in the initial marketing statements.
It’s funny, because although I’m backing as well (they’ve produced pretty much nothing but winners, in my book, so I feel like it’s a safe bet), it’s actually the one that they’ve done that least excites me, from a premise perspective. Well, okay, I didn’t back Exceed at all, because I felt like they already did that in BattleCON and adding shuffling wasn’t a step forward. But from everything I’ve heard it’s awesome. I just, y’know, already have and rarely get to play BattleCON.