HeroScape Age of Annihilation (remake): failed to fund :(

[Kurgan]

2,937 Backers
Target 8,000

Funding ends in:
19 Days 5 Hours 35 Minutes

They just had a video on youtube showing off the game again, but it doesn't look good as far as reaching their goal unless they get a ton of buys at the last minute!

[Kurgan]

3,017 backers this morning...

Our friend Amalgamash did a nice video with his take on the situation...

[Kurgan]

3,060 Backers this morning...

This afternoon:

3,064 Backers, Target 8,000

"This campaign will move into production when it reaches its minimum backing goal. We will stop taking backers at 11:59 PM EST on November 15th 2022"

https://hasbropulse.com/products/heroscape-age-of-annihilation-vanguard-edition

[Kurgan]

So I was wrong about the shipping charges...

Limit of 5 per customer
Not available to ship to Quebec, Canada.
Standard shipping and handling to the contiguous United States included, otherwise shipping and handling charges will be calculated at the time of checkout.

3,140 Backers this morning...

[Kurgan]

3,240 Backers this evening.

Limiting an individual to 5 "backings" (buys) seems reasonable I guess (to limit scalping, I assume), but even with shipping included, that's $1,249.95 which is a lot to spend on board games these days. They'd need about 397 backers a day to make the deadline! Even if you had big spenders who are getting their five copies each day added, that's 80 a day! I don't think they're going to make it.

[Kurgan]

3,344 this evening.

[Kurgan]

With barely five days left to go... 3,571 Backers total.

They'll need 4,429 more buys in less than a week or the thing FAILS.

[HispaZargon]

Interesting... Hasbro will take note about not all this kind of kickstarters will have the same success as HeroQuest. They should see how important is HeroQuest's brand for them, so hopefully they would take care of it in upcoming years.

[Kurgan]

TheRantCastPodCast's take on it (from the POV of fans who didn't grow up with this game)
(warning: language)

Here's BGG's page on the Original version of HeroScape (2004)... for comparison sake (the figures were pre-painted).

[Kurgan]

3,602 this afternoon. Heading out for the weekend but I don't expect they'll be anywhere close to the goal when I return.