What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

I had backed that Eminent Domain: Microcosm thing even though I don't particularly like Eminent Domain (it's a separate game set in the same "universe", whatever that universe might be). $10, played fast, blah blah. But I just cancelled my backing.

I played two KS games -- ones I backed and received -- this weekend and both were eeeh. I jumped in on a few KSes several months ago just to see what the fuss was. All of the ones I received (two are still left) have been nothing special, with the exception of Marrying Mr. Darcy, which isn't a great game in any sense but is a load of dumb fun.

Part of the reason why I've been avoiding my Tuesday night group is because of the KS love there. Just a lot of mediocre (at best) games that no one will ever think of again.

The KS games I've played and really liked have been ones I bought as usual, which have somewhat proven themselves. I have yet to purchase a KS game after-the-fact and felt like I really wished I'd been on board from the get-go.

EDIT: wrote about this in more detail on my blog .

schlupp wrote: I just backed the long lost expansion for Age of Conan: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1402889231/...y-boardgame-its-back

That game deserves a second chance.

I'm thinking it probably does as well and that my "3" rating of the base game was probably unseemly harsh after one play. At the very least, it does seem like the designers have tried to address the concerns of the 2009 group, and the various stretch goals seem fairly interesting. I'm actually at least for now in on this one, despite my better judgment, if mostly because I want this to be a good game and feel like it might work fairly well with a "fun" crowd rather than a "gamer" crowd. I've had good luck, for example, with Conquest of Nerath with a nongamer crowd but wouldn't consider putting it in front of (most of) my gamer associates.

I'm still in the Yashima Kickstarter. The base concept looks pretty good--more or less a faster, less thinly Mage Wars--but the silver level hasn't really panned out all that well, being cluttered with a lot of foil cards that I care almost nothing about, and I'm considering again backing down to the bronze level and call it a day.

You get a lot more minis in the Silver though, don't you?

stormseeker75 wrote: You get a lot more minis in the Silver though, don't you?

There is definitely "more" at the Silver level for Yashima, including more miniatures. It's just a question of whether it's really more of what I want in an unknown game--the same kind of concern for most KS games.

That is exactly why I don't back people I don't know.

I'm telling you...if you like miniatures games AT ALL, get in on Strange Aeons. It really is one of the best miniatures games with RPG elements ever.

Not really the place for this, but the genuine if ill-placed anger in the comments and to some extent on BGG over the decision by many Yashima backers either to back out or to replace silver with bronze pledges late in the game is more than a little absurd. Well, absurd, I suppose, if you operate from the position that Kickstarter is essentially a financial transaction with traditional cost-benefit analysis instead of a social movement or community-building activity. Admittedly, I was one of the people backing down from silver to bronze, if only after it was very clear that the next stretch-goal level was not going to be achieved, but the heat is still a little bothersome.

jpat wrote: but the heat is still a little bothersome.

Shake it off, it's a business transaction. Both sides come to a mutual agreement over the exchange or business doesn't get done. You don't owe the vendor nor any of his other customers anything.

S.

The people bitching are the same people that say "If you're not sure just back now, you can always cancel your pledge at the last minute."

Just to confirm that boardgamers aren't the only whiny bitches in the world, check out this Kickstarter .

It was for a spiral notebookk with write/erase pages. The update says that it just didn't work out and so they'll refund everyone 25% of what they pledged (the other 75% having been spent trying to fulfill the project). Then open the floodgate of comments with irate people threatening to sue and/or press criminal charges for fraud. One guy even has the gall to tell the project owners that they don't understand the concept of "risk." What an ass.