(Kickstarter) Kingdom Death Monster 1.5

[Malebolgia]

Probably the fastest going Kickstarter ever, at least in the gaming section. Open for some hours now, almost at $2.500.000 now...
Get it while it's hot...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poots/kingdom-death-monster-15?ref=profile_created

[Devoted of Slaanesh]

Delivery date Dec. 2020? Really...

[Timbor]

Wow... I never noticed that! I know many people have had to wait 4 years for a KS to be fulfilled... but to actually claim that upfront.  I wonder if most of the bandwagon actually realizes that?

[AndyW]

Did this first time around, and after waiting so long for it and finally not getting one part of it after it was pulled ( the latern festival addition, which had a few nice additions in it, the Game hunters in particular took my eye, granted we got a refund but still kind of took the biscuit.. ) played it around four times and is simply too samey for me now.

[Major_Gilbear]

Delivery date Dec. 2020? Really...

Well, it basically took over two years for the first KS to finish shipping, and that's not counting a small refund that many backers received for a promised expansion that didn't get made in the end.

I would point out that the shipping was a fucking ridiculous experience; instead of using some of the surplus money from the KS total to arrange the shipping (bearing in mind that backers had already paid extra for shipping anyway), it was all spent on making the game more premium, and backers were then asked to pay again for shipping because the "extra-premium" was now bigger/heavier/later than originally planned.

Quality of the final product was very high, but quality control was a bit hit-and-miss - for example, receiving a special personalised "thank you" on the KS-exclusive extras kit is rather marred when it's full of basic typing errors (like "Thank you bakcers!"), and that's printed in big letters across the box lid.

Finally, the game was so big, and so expensive, and so premium, that it basically has no chance of ever going to retail. I think that's a bit disappointing personally, as the KS just ends up being for the KS-backers only.

So, just a few things to keep in mind if anyone's thinking of supporting it.  

[Malebolgia]

Wave 1 - Estimated Delivery Summer 2017

So if that holds, you can be playing by summer, while the rest arrives later on. Not too shabby eh.

[Major_Gilbear]

It's a minor update and re-print of the Monster 1.0 KS... I would hope that six months is enough for that! 

[frenchfever]

2020 ! ?  we will live in a post apocalyptic world !!

[Ray Rivers]

2020 ! ?  we will live in a post apocalyptic world !!

There are 4 waves.

Wave 1 - Core Game - Summer 2017
Wave 2 - Gambler's Box - Est. Summer 2018
Wave 3 - New Expansions - Est. Spring 2019
Wave 4 - ? - Winter 2020

This Kickstarter presently stands at $6,800,000. I think I read that this is the second most pledged miniatures game and the 8th most pledged project on Kickstarter.

The miniatures are pretty awesome. The game I have no clue. The genre I'm not into.

Even the developer seems to be totally stunned by the response.

Should be interesting to see where this goes.

[Elbows]

While I've no real interest in it - the components are incredible (seen plenty of reviews of the game).  If it beats $9 mil. it will be the highest grossing "game" Kickstarter ever.  Good for the designer/developer.

[tomcat51]

2020 ! ?  we will live in a post apocalyptic world !!

Maybe that's what they are counting on, get the money now and spend it on drugs, booze and women, safe in the knowledge the world will be a desolate wasteland before they need to fulfil their order. Genius!

[beefcake]

Not my cup of tea. I'm actually surprised how well this is doing, yes nice minis but it is quite a niche they are supplying. Granted it is much nicer than the rest of their f&*^ed up aesthetic.

[DivisMal]

Not my cup of tea. I'm actually surprised how well this is doing, yes nice minis but it is quite a niche they are supplying. Granted it is much nicer than the rest of their f&*^ed up aesthetic.

Totally agree.

But people seem to love it...everyone who pledged, pledged about 400$!?

[beefcake]

 
I couldn't believe you so checked it out myself. 6,885,822 / 13834 = ~$498 per backer (rounded to the nearest dollar)

[ecurtz]

Quality of the final product was very high, but quality control was a bit hit-and-miss - for example, receiving a special personalised "thank you" on the KS-exclusive extras kit is rather marred when it's full of basic typing errors (like "Thank you bakcers!"), and that's printed in big letters across the box lid.

This was a joke based on Adam's notoriously terrible typing/spelling in the updates and KS comments, the actual game content was pretty well copyedited.