Ye Olde Inn

by **Sjeng** » April 26th, 2014, 2:18 am

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/10 ... pe-big-box

It's a big box, meaning it's the base game, plus ALL expansions ever made, plus lots of new stretch goals.
They also unlocked an extra game for free: Mammut.

Looks nice, and right now there's a flash sale so you can get it all for $70,- with free shipping to United States, Germany,Belgium, and Netherlands. (otherwise it's $75,- so no big deal if you miss it)
Seems like a fun game at good value.

Queen Games is synonymous with shady, dishonest, business practices. The original KS for Escape (as well as almost all of their numerous others) was famously late, and in all instances they failed to stay in contact with pledges. They accepted pledges from people in countries that they knew they couldn't ship to (not in US or EU), but didn't inform them that they wouldn't be getting anything for their money.

Their games are mostly rip-offs, and they have ridiculously high-prices for direct-to-customer products. You don't get to charge MSRP if you don't sell retail. That is dishonest. You're paying Fantasy Flight prices for games that use only printed or pre-fabricated components. Their KS bio outright lies about their practices. You can't cut out half of production and all retailers and claim you're creating jobs in the industry. They are literally making their games around the components that they can find cheapest. They have nothing original made that cannot be printed out on paper.

They have also all but admitted that "expansions" were originally component to the basic game, but were stripped out to be used as radically over-priced stretch goals.

by **Sjeng** » April 26th, 2014, 9:47 am

Yeah I'm on the fence about this one. $70,- seems a bit steep, although depending on the quality of the game pieces it might be fair. But thanks for informing me

by **Sjeng** » May 4th, 2014, 2:52 pm

Last 2 days. Has anyone ever played this game or owned it? Is it as fun as it looks or should I spend the money on somwthing else...

by **Sjeng** » May 7th, 2014, 6:36 am

Well, I decided to go ahead and pledge for it. I snagged an early bird $70,-.
They almost have all the strecthes, about 11k left to go.

Nobody else here interested?