[NGW]

*looks at The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Kickstarter*

No, THAT was impressive.

It also had much more reasonable tiers and a ton of cool stuff added on for free over the course of the month.

[C3Gaming]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I've gotta say, I really don't like kickstarters for something when they already have the official licensing of an extremely wealthy franchise. How on earth can't they afford to make one tabletop?

The franchise is wealthy. Renegade Games is not. Hasbro aren't producing the game, nor are giving capital to Renegade to produce it - the opposite, in fact. A small board game company doesn't have the funds to produce a huge miniatures board game out of nothing.

[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by C3Gaming

The franchise is wealthy. Renegade Games is not. Hasbro aren't producing the game, nor are giving capital to Renegade to produce it - the opposite, in fact. A small board game company doesn't have the funds to produce a huge miniatures board game out of nothing.

So, what; Hasbro commissions and puts their support behind a project but doesn't invest in it and expects them and the fans to take care of it on their own?
That's ridiculous, scummy behaviour. This'd be a drop in the ocean for them.

[Kiryu]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

So, what; Hasbro commissions and puts their support behind a project but doesn't invest in it and expects them and the fans to take care of it on their own?
That's ridiculous, scummy behaviour. This'd be a drop in the ocean for them.

More like, they gave the rights to use the Power Rangers license to a company they believed would be able to do right with it. Which seems to have been the case given that this reach it's funding within about 8 hours of starting which is phenomenal for something as niche as Power Rangers.

Still...given how many stories there are of kickstarters running away with people's money I can't blame you for being apprehensive about this project. I'm on the fence as to whether or not I'll end up backing this myself. I'll probably just wait for this to be released at Retail since all I want is the Shattered Grid set anyways.

[Kiryu]

UPDATE:

Kickstarter is now sitting at $158K of now and is well on it's way to unlocking the first three stretch goals.

A Finister Miniature and double-sided location cards to those that pledge $150 or more and is well on it's way of unlocking it's third goal which includes a Wizard of Deception miniature and Monster Cards.

[Librarian]

I'd consider pledging, but only after Gouryujin gets a minifigure. Feels wrong not having both there.

Kind of am hoping this goes over so well that Hasbro looks it over for full mainline release later. Or does some kind of board game RPG style version.

[FerrousMaelstrom]

Eh, it looks alright but I don't think my IRL friends would be into a Power Rangers game so I'm probably not going to get it.

Also, how come the expansion only comes with an Evil Green and they put Hero Green deep into the stretch goals?

[C3Gaming]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

So, what; Hasbro commissions and puts their support behind a project but doesn't invest in it and expects them and the fans to take care of it on their own?
That's ridiculous, scummy behaviour. This'd be a drop in the ocean for them.

No, Hasbro have nothing to do with it, either in terms of funding or creative direction, outside of giving their approval for the game's content. Renegade wanted to make a Power Rangers board game, so they purchased the rights to do so.

It is like, when Peter Jackson wanted to make the Lord of the Rings films. The Tolkien estate sold the rights to make movies based on the franchise, but they had no hand in funding, creating, or marketing the films.

[Spearichu]

I just want the foot soldiers and Pumpkin Rapper minatures.

[Bionichute]

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Originally Posted by Spearichu

I just want the foot soldiers and Pumpkin Rapper minatures.

oh worm

also yall don't really realize how the whole board game thing works nowadays do you