Hubbe
Expert Craftsman
Mythic Games have had a bad year. They had to sell off a lot of their IP's and charge extra shipping cost on their latest games like Darkest Dungeon, and re-organize their operations (meaning lots of people lost their jobs). Their business modell clearly couldn't handle Covid and the extra shipping costs. They have always used funds from next kickstarter to help make the last game they had on kickstarter, and costs finally caught up to them.
I backed 6:Siege the board game July 2021. Their problems started early 2022 and after the "Darkest Dungeon gate" where they held the copies randsom from backers, I knew that 6:Siege also would have some extra cost regardign shipping.
Just got the bad news on how much extra I had to pay in order to get my pledge sent to me. For my 199$ pledge I will have to pay another 99$ for shipping. VAT will probably come with it, so it will be more expensive. This is just a crazy amount of money to be asking. 50% of what we originally pledged! Other companies had similar problems regarding extra shipping but have handle this in a much better way. Shadowborn Games (Oathsworn) charged 18$ extra for the all-inn with another promise of 10% discount of every next games they put out on crowdfunding (a little too generious perhaps). They even put out 100 000$ of their own pocket to cover shipping expenses.
I feel this could be handle a lot better from Mythic Games, and I will never back anything from them again. I still haven't deceided if I should ask for a refund or pay to get the game. The game itself looks incredible.
Have you ever had similar issues yourselfes?
I backed 6:Siege the board game July 2021. Their problems started early 2022 and after the "Darkest Dungeon gate" where they held the copies randsom from backers, I knew that 6:Siege also would have some extra cost regardign shipping.
Just got the bad news on how much extra I had to pay in order to get my pledge sent to me. For my 199$ pledge I will have to pay another 99$ for shipping. VAT will probably come with it, so it will be more expensive. This is just a crazy amount of money to be asking. 50% of what we originally pledged! Other companies had similar problems regarding extra shipping but have handle this in a much better way. Shadowborn Games (Oathsworn) charged 18$ extra for the all-inn with another promise of 10% discount of every next games they put out on crowdfunding (a little too generious perhaps). They even put out 100 000$ of their own pocket to cover shipping expenses.
I feel this could be handle a lot better from Mythic Games, and I will never back anything from them again. I still haven't deceided if I should ask for a refund or pay to get the game. The game itself looks incredible.
Have you ever had similar issues yourselfes?