The South Didn’t Rise Again!

[Whiterook]

Well, shiiiiiiiityt! I made a big whoopers. I’d thought I’d pledged on Flying Pig Game’s, A Fearful Sacrifice, which plays out the three days at Gettysburg, but apparently, I didn’t. Dang. I logged on KickStarter and Bammo, no love. I remember hemming and hawing over it during the campaign… I mean, I want this friggin’ game, man! But the wallet was screaming back, NO! I guess the wallet must have won at the time, and now,I’m face a $125 game, IF there are some in stock after fulfilling pledgers, and that’s without the sway or shipping!

What’s a little General to do? 

Wait. Hope there’s a sale at FPG and there are stock?

Hmmmmmmmmm 

[mikeh]

Bummer! What is the average wait time between pledging and receiving your game? I have seen posts where some
gamers have been waiting a year or two or so they say.

[Whiterook]

May 3, 2022 16:38:52 GMT -5 mikeh said:

Bummer! What is the average wait time between pledging and receiving your game? I have seen posts where some
gamers have been waiting a year or two or so they say.

Great question! Typically a year…

Once the campaign reaches the initial pledge level to fund (say, $8000), the publisher starts the ball rolling with extras (expansions, cards, mounted maps, added scenarios, custom dice, etc.) that would be offered as Stretch Goals (which is the dangled carrot to reach higher pledge amounts).

Once the campaign ends (end of the pledging cycle), the publisher will get the manufacturers of the actual game (some here in the United States, but most of the games are made in China) to create a proof(s) of the game materials, which need to be approved by the publisher. This includes a full mock-up, generally.

Once the proofs are approved, manufacturing begins. When finished, items need to be shipped to the United States, to a distributor (like Quartermanster), who ships the game out to the pledgers.

Of all those steps, shipping is what has ‘caused the delays of past a year that you mention… getting cargo ships is next too possible…then, those shops get hung up for months in ports…then, there are no trucks to ship them to the distributor…then, there are no trucks to ship them from the distributor. It’s a crazy pandemic world!