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Wait. What? SD and Ludik Bazare are owned by the same guy, Piotr Borowski. They're even at the same address. AFAIK, LB is an online store. You're telling me it's not "feasible" to run an online game store?? Dunno about you, but I'd rather fund a guy who can run a business, rather than shut it down. KS is not a store -- and it's not a secured loan, either. If SD also "isn't feasible anymore", backers will be last in line in getting any of their money back, although I'm sure they'll be happy to know that the SD employees, such as Joss and Piotr, will have gotten their salaries from backer KS funds. Also, Sarouan, on Dakka, said about Joss, the miniature guy "well known" in France, "And let's not forget that the game Alkemy that he designed made their first company, Kraken Editions, bankrupt."
"And let's not forget that the game Alkemy that he designed made their first company, Kraken Editions, bankrupt."
Actually the vacform packaging is what did them in
"Ludik Bazar and Sans Detour share the same address""Piotr BOROWSKI owns both Ludik Bazar and Sans Detour but they are two separate companies (or at least it's what they say).""You can add Stellar to the two companies."
Details! Details!
Details! Details! @Condottiere: EDIT: Piotr's companies start at page 19 of this Dakka thread. : https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/540/717182.pageIIRC, Stellar has the rights to Confrontation and is licensing them to SD (?). Sorta reminds me of Valley Games and Up Front. Latest update has a pic of one of the resins. A bit late, though... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/996665814/confrontation-classic-the-legendary-skirmish-game/posts/2189398EDIT: Duncan says the miniature was intended for Resurrection: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/900/717182.page
They did their second wave of miniatures up in vacform packaging and it was far more expensive than they thought. Customers didn’t like the higher prices for fewer figures so they were stuck with fewer sales on a set of minis that cost them more per unit than before. Cash crunch ensued
Apparently one guy in the comments is now calling some of the naysayers not only intentional saboteurs working for another KS project but also terrorists.Aaand then one of Sans-Detour's collaborators came and thanked him for that comment...
So, if the company cannot afford to get this off the ground for the amount they now have to play with, now is the time to admit they set their target too low, pull the plug so everyone gets their money back and it's no harm, no foul, right?But, if the company is basically just pulling a cash grab to line their pockets, they will let the KS complete, take the funds and then later on rub their hands, blame saboutage/slander/Satan and say they can't afford to deliver as promised, before starting up a bunch of new shell companies to pull their next trick.