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Is The Time Of The Publisher Over?
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Space Ghost wrote: How is Dungeon Degenerates? Worth getting?
So far I'm loving it. I'm an adventure game junkie and this manages to scratch the "weird fantasy" genre for me. The rulebook takes a few reads to figure things out, but the mechanics are fairly straightforward and overall pretty solid. It's single best trait is how open it is. You will begin a scenario with some specific goal and how or if you accomplish it is basically up to you. I'm not big into campaigns, but I might just start one with DD.
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In time Kickstarter will become middle-aged and it will become another eBay, one where you pay and then don't get your product for nine months. As with eBay it will continue, but not be the force that it is today. Publishers will use it judiciously when it is appropriate.
As for one-off games from the designer, those have been around for years. I have a copy of Vanished Planet if anybody wants it.
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The reality of it is, as others have pointed out here, that GoT Catan is going to sell with almost no marketing required other than putting it on your new releases shelf or in the shop window. It doesn't need the hype, it doesn't need the stretch goals, it doesn't need the pervasive and irritating banner ads. And as dazzling as the million-dollar Kickstarter finishes are, in the long term it will likely outsell all but the most successful Kickstarter titles. Year over year, I'd be willing to bet that timeless, evergreen titles like Carcassonne, Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and others like that greatly outsell anything coming out of crowdfunding, and these are games that have been selling at steady volume for in Carcassonne's case over 15 years. Contrast that with most of the Kickstarter stuff that launches with much froo-frah, sells out one shipment at retail, and then the restock sits quietly on the shelf until it moves to the clearance shelf.
I also don't think it's an exaggeration to state that X-Wing has done more for the health of the hobby industry than anything crowdfunding has.
What seems to be the big thing lately has been classic 1980s nerd movies turned into games- Labyrinth, Big Trouble in Little China, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Thing, Goonies...gosh, I wish this trend would die in a fire.
I still, of course, vastly prefer games from established publishers. I think back to all the guys on a grid games I've played over the past couple of years from Kickstarter....and they aren't on my shelf. But Necromunda is over there and always will be.
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Michael Barnes wrote: I still, of course, vastly prefer games from established publishers. I think back to all the guys on a grid games I've played over the past couple of years from Kickstarter....and they aren't on my shelf. But Necromunda is over there and always will be.
I call first refusal on the Necromunda stuff when you sell it off in 12 months.
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Shellhead wrote: Game of Thrones Catan sounds like stupid, greedy bullshit. What next, Love Letter: YINSH?
Communist.
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Msample wrote: Can you say MunchkinCide?
I can. But I will not.
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That's one "money grab" that I'd be all over.
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