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 redstripe wrote:
I keep seeing similar comments in this thread. How often do you expect them to respond to questions on the KS page? You specifically mention "overnight." Are they expected to attend the KS page in shifts so they have 24hr coverage? They can't take a break from the KS page in order to eat, work their real full-time jobs, or attend to their families? What level of interaction is expected?

RH is currently at Update 50

Sandy Peterson's Cthulhu War's just released Update 66.

Myth had 55 by the end.

Kings of War had low 60s by the end IIRC.

How many did K: DM have at the end? I had to pull out in the last few days sadly.

I think the real issues is that of those 50 Updates, 6 or 7 have been spent clarifying 'accidental typos' and 'math errors' or 'other misunderstandings' from earlier updates. It seems to take almost 2 Updates to get a single point across and they still have to clarify it in other posts because they revert to earlier incorrect statements.

And none of the last few updates has been addressing the 80% previewed by the end of the campaign or even hinted of the next actual mini to be displayed. One Shot is great but she was posted on Day 1. I'd like to see some of the troops which is the bulk of what I would like to pledge for.

 pretre wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
One can argue about success of a KS or how it is run, but ultimately, the total is going up. They are doing things that would seem unorthodox, but people seem to want these specialty items and huge pledge levels.

Ok, so far, I how a beer to both pretre and TalonZhan.

I don't even remember what the bet was, but now I get free beer!

I'm in the same boat on remembering. I'm old and confused.

Give mine to Kalishnikov since he got in that sexy pose with the rifle for me.

Maybe he'll finally put on those Spanx and stick his butt out to truly get the feel of the miniature.

So i ahve this great problem , my GF take the Awesome Cyber-shamanic-licantropic Kurganovas for herself, so i dont know what army to chose.
Initially i was all for the JB , but now that Mecha make me change my mind and go for the NecroPrussianEgyptian Empire . Sigh :(

 Melissia wrote:

 Buzzsaw wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Is that the resculpt of hte kurganovas that people were talking about? Because that's still rather disappointing.

The picture I posted? No, that's the original render of the non-heavy troopers. To the best of my knowledge those troops have not been subject to revision.

That sucks. Guess I'll just check this thread again in a few days or so.

I want the Kurganovas to not be lame and stupid :/

I think after the backlash the heavy troopers had, they decided to make all troopers the same proportions with the heroines.

I hope they do, I personally am expecting the artwork in miniatures form as promised, not the renders we have seen....

Indeed, I kind of liked the concept art myself. It had boob-cups yes, which was unfortunate, but it was subtle and more stylistic than fanservice, so I was mostly okay with it. Those renders... were fanservice.

 Melissia wrote:
Let's see... running the list of obnoxious action girl cliches here...

Bared midriffs? Check.
Awkward poses? Check.
Lots of cleavage? Check.
Boob-cup armor? Check.
Pants almost falling off? Check.

I hope the models are better than the concept art. Though Ilsa Wolfenstein and Brusilla Lepic are interesting.

 Melissia wrote:
Indeed, I kind of liked the concept art myself.

... Yup... Melissia I enjoy your short stories but I must take your opinion with a grain of salt.

 Melissia wrote:
Indeed, I kind of liked the concept art myself. It had boob-cups yes, which was unfortunate, but it was subtle and more stylistic than fanservice, so I was mostly okay with it. Those renders... were fanservice.

The renders differ in certain points from the 3d prints and later miniatures. The size of the bust is among those. Besides the trooper renderings were WIP and since they wanted to change the boob-cups on the heavy troopers chances are the same happens to the other Kurganova troopers. If it's bothering you ask them directly. I am sure there are many who are interested in their answer.


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timd wrote:

 Minx wrote:
Just to appease the masses:

LnR wrote:And last but not least, we can officially announce that we are going to resume the unlocking of new Freebies and new Free Upgrades tomorrow...

And they have been saying that for what, a week? Far too late in the KS to pick up large numbers of new pledgers, especially in the US with a big, busy holiday weekend coming up.

T

No, they said this just once, today.

 keltikhoa wrote:
... Yup... Melissia I enjoy your short stories but I must take your opinion with a grain of salt.

 Melissia wrote:
I didn't say that ALL of the concept art was bad

 Melissia wrote:
I was thinking that the Kurvanova might be good from the concept art... but then I saw the Kurganova minis and... wow. that's bad.

Try actually reading more than a single post.

I still dislike most of the concept art for TGitG. And most of the miniatures, as a result. The Kurganovas and some of the heroes were the only ones I particularly liked.

Have they ever made official the adding of additional "freebies?"

I.E. - I want to add that damn baby hippo to my pledge.

Basically - I'd like to pledge for "Private" and choose my favorite Heroine (Mimi, just for the record) and pay $5 or $10 to add the hippo and see if they'll still give me free shipping.

(Since they altered the pledge to say a box of 5 troopers can still get free shipping - I figure what's a girl and a tiny hippo?)

 Minx wrote:
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timd wrote:

 Minx wrote:
Just to appease the masses:

LnR wrote:And last but not least, we can officially announce that we are going to resume the unlocking of new Freebies and new Free Upgrades tomorrow...

And they have been saying that for what, a week? Far too late in the KS to pick up large numbers of new pledgers, especially in the US with a big, busy holiday weekend coming up.

T

No, they said this just once, today.

This is the first time they've said it in an update, but they've been saying that the freebies will be back soon pretty much since the update that switched us to rolling unlocks rather than $value unlocks. So, whilst posting it in the update may appease some people, it's still very much a case of jam tomorrow until we actually see more details.


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Schmapdi wrote:
Have they ever made official the adding of additional "freebies?"

Sadly not, it's another of the unanswered questions that we might see an answer to during the next 88 hours.

prankster wrote:
This is the first time they've said it in an update, but they've been saying that the freebies will be back soon pretty much since the update that switched us to rolling unlocks rather than $value unlocks. So, whilst posting it in the update may appease some people, it's still very much a case of jam tomorrow until we actually see more details.

Indeed, they told us the freebies would come back after they've unlocked most of the miniatures. And now that we've reached that particular point we get to see the next freebies tomorrow. It's a bit premature to moan today about it not happening tomorrow though.

 Minx wrote:

prankster wrote:
This is the first time they've said it in an update, but they've been saying that the freebies will be back soon pretty much since the update that switched us to rolling unlocks rather than $value unlocks. So, whilst posting it in the update may appease some people, it's still very much a case of jam tomorrow until we actually see more details.

Indeed, they told us the freebies would come back after they've unlocked most of the miniatures. And now that we've reached that particular point we get to see the next freebies tomorrow. It's a bit premature to moan today about it not happening tomorrow though.

IIRC they've never actually said that they were waiting until after most of the unlocks, just that they'd be back before the end.

Well, I liked the renders, but then they said they're going to change them, and the scale is still unclear too. Sorry, but I'm not going to buy a product without seeing it.

prankster wrote:

 Minx wrote:

prankster wrote:
This is the first time they've said it in an update, but they've been saying that the freebies will be back soon pretty much since the update that switched us to rolling unlocks rather than $value unlocks. So, whilst posting it in the update may appease some people, it's still very much a case of jam tomorrow until we actually see more details.

Indeed, they told us the freebies would come back after they've unlocked most of the miniatures. And now that we've reached that particular point we get to see the next freebies tomorrow. It's a bit premature to moan today about it not happening tomorrow though.

IIRC they've never actually said that they were waiting until after most of the unlocks, just that they'd be back before the end.

The statements I have found tend to support prankster's point, with the following appearing in the comments;

Stretch goals will be back Freebies, too!

Also this;

Jason West 6 days ago

Any chance of more freebies before the end of this kickstarter?

@Jason West: Yes! And Free Upgrades too!

and

@Ashley Waggoner Williams (see correction) @Alvin Scott: The Heroines are all unveiled but now all unlocked. Neither are some of the Troops and Support. However, we are now UNLOCKING (not unveiling, as I commented earlier) between 1 and 3 items every day. Freebies and Free Upgrades will resume a bit later on.

Etc...

We are focusing on the unlocks now. There will be more Stretch Goals for Freebies and Free Upgrades later... Add-ons are also planned... And details of weaponry etc. is forthcoming... You are in our hourly thoughts and we won't let you down!

It seems they had planned to give us more stretch goals and freebies after their focus on unlocks and apparently that time has come tomorrow.

However, we are now UNLOCKING (not unveiling, as I commented earlier) between 1 and 3 items every day. Freebies and Free Upgrades will resume a bit later on.

We are focusing on the unlocks now. There will be more Stretch Goals for Freebies and Free Upgrades later... Add-ons are also planned...

and

Guys, what we actually said was that we are unlocking one to three a day... Stretch goals will come back later...

Thanks for the quotes Buzzsaw.

I feel justified in my original assertion that they were trying to milk the kickstarter at the start of the campaign in the hopes of squeezing more money out of us. I'm glad to see the tactic failed.

I'm also glad to see they finally made the coffee table book an option, as well as the "heroines only" pledge level... too bad they made it prohibitively expensive >< can't afford it this month.

I admit it - I missed the coffee table art book notice!

Anyone got the details?

It's currently only available as part of the $695 pledge level.

Unfortunately they also said it's not going to be an optional add-on outside of the connoisseur pledge level.

We won't be able to offer additional copies within the Kickstarter. However, the book will be available in our webshop at some point in the future.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
One can argue about success of a KS or how it is run, but ultimately, the total is going up. They are doing things that would seem unorthodox, but people seem to want these specialty items and huge pledge levels.
Ok, so far, I how a beer to both pretre and TalonZhan.

I don't even remember what the bet was, but now I get free beer!

I'm in the same boat on remembering. I'm old and confused.

Damn, I took the most flak for predicting the same, and I don't get a free beer. Good thing that I don't like beer then

 TalonZahn wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
One can argue about success of a KS or how it is run, but ultimately, the total is going up. They are doing things that would seem unorthodox, but people seem to want these specialty items and huge pledge levels.

Ok, so far, I owe a beer to both pretre and TalonZhan.

I don't even remember what the bet was, but now I get free beer!

I'm in the same boat on remembering. I'm old and confused.

Give mine to Kalishnikov since he got in that sexy pose with the rifle for me.

Maybe he'll finally put on those Spanx and stick his butt out to truly get the feel of the miniature.

He was a damn sexy sport. And he's a pleasure to communicate with to boot(y)!

The beer was because I said we'd probably get the usual upswing *just cuz*, and you both said no.

I'll be honest. I'm getting cold feet. Not sure if I will pull out. I wanted to see renders. If they still have to create them, then there is no way they are hitting September for wave 1, especially for something that has been prepared for for months in advance. And if I don,t like the renders post KS? I guess there is always eBay...


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Kroot, I'll pay for whatever drink you like. I'll even fix you up a Warp Core Breach.

I can't wait for this one to be over.

Oops, I thought they predicted the upswing.

Just for the record, the data look like every other kickstarter upswing 4 days before the end:

Think they'll include a bottle of champagne (the real stuff) if we break a mil?

 Kroothawk wrote:
Just for the record, the data look like every other kickstarter upswing 4 days before the end...

You mean this KS is just like every other KS?

What a shock. (/deadpan)

 Minx wrote:
Just to appease the masses:

LnR wrote:And last but not least, we can officially announce that we are going to resume the unlocking of new Freebies and new Free Upgrades tomorrow...

Just saw that. I fear it'll be too little, too late for many to jump on or stay in.

Ahh yes, I recall that.

I didn't say no upswing, just not the massive one many other Kicks has seen.

So Kroot can post his "trend" and be right.... for now.

Just got up and had a quick peek at this Connoisseur level. My stars! That's more than a little out of my reach. Shame - I'd have preferred having these in resin.

Ah, well.

 Azazelx wrote:

 Minx wrote:
Just to appease the masses:

LnR wrote:And last but not least, we can officially announce that we are going to resume the unlocking of new Freebies and new Free Upgrades tomorrow...

Just saw that. I fear it'll be too little, too late for many to jump on or stay in.

Difficult to say: for reference, compare what RH is adding at a minimum pledge of $150, compared to what Bombshell Miniatures added at $75;



FYI, the tee-shirt could be exchanged for another choice of miniature.

Be precise now, 2 choices of miniatures.