precinctomega wrote:Is Infinity a "slow mess"? Everything originally promised has been delivered. Only later stretch goals are still outstanding and that's fair enough.
It's been roughly 6 years and they've averaged only two books a year (bumped up heavily because last year they got a higher number out) and yet originally insisted that all the books could be done in about 4 years. Last year was the most they released ever in one year (probably due to
CB having more time for approvals) to backers but they still have 7 books left. If you ignore the high amount released last year of being outside the norm, which was 5 PDFs, then we still have 4-5 years to get those last books. If part of last year carries over to this year we could see them in all in 2 maybe 3 years (which is what I hope).
It takes a while to write something like that from scratch.
Which is true. This isn't like we're talking about them being a year or two late (that happens with a KSer that was overly successful and lots of things added. I can be quite reasonable). But we're now 6 years into funding with only 2/3s the line done. I just feel sorry for the people that backed for one faction book with the expectation that it would be 2 years (due to poor communication on Modiphius's part before the KSer ended as to what people should expect) to end up being one of the later scheduled books get and only got the PDF last year with the books getting printed this year.
At some point you just have to say that things haven't gone very well.
Aeneades wrote:I backed the Achtung Cthulhu Kickstarter and received all the items without any issue (and more or less on time). Also preordered a lot of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls miniature products and all received promptly and make my expectations.
I've had pretty good experiences with their minis line as well, but I waited to see if they could regularly deliver before I bought into them. And of course, once I did, COVID hit. They've had lots of issues around that but have been pretty upfront about it and it's all stuff they cannot control.
As I said in the original post people will need to decide for themselves if they want to back. I do like the company. It does make some of my favorite game systems for settings I quite enjoy (I've probably spent $1000 dollars on their webstore in 2020). But they've had a horrible trend of overpromising what is even possible delivery wise in the past. And I really hope that this doesn't turn out that way as I want to keep liking the company and their games and hope they've truly learned from these past KSers.
It seams like this KSer is aware of those over promises and from their statement everything is ready to go. But we don't know what the stretch goal plan is and that's what always gets them into trouble and people do need to be aware of that history which, mind you, still has 3 active projects going on between 3.5 and 6 years late.
The only minor complaint I have have had with Modiphius was that the elder scrolls mat was folded in a box rather than rolled and the creases still won’t come out almost a year later.
They're not the only ones that do that as it really cuts down on shipping costs. I'm guessing if you're lucky and get a newer product, or it's packed that way at order time but stored not folded, the creases don't stay. Stories like this are why I've not bought their official mats even though I like the
ES one.
