Board game bloat

Board games on Kickstarter are very different from the board games you can buy at your local toy store. Kickstater games are often complex and consist of many parts. And many of them have many designs. Moreover, in the store you can probably buy the original game first, read this before deciding to buy the extension. Board game kickstarter companies are working with FOMO (Fear of Extinction) to sell a few extra boxes of luxury items. This has all the consequences. If you take a Catanese settler from your local toy store, the box will weigh 1 kg. The total warranty for the latest Kickstater game could easily exceed 10 pounds [10 kg], up to some 25 pounds [25 kg]. For some games, such as Frosthaven, the weight of the main box is already 10 kg.

But there is a big difference between in-store games and kickstarter board games: logistics. The store offers many games at once, which is more profitable than the cost of delivery. The Kickstater fan gets the floor privately. This means you have to pay for another career. This has always been a problem for people living in remote areas, but if you live in the "48 neighboring states" of the United States or Europe, the shipping costs are already reasonable.

But during the epidemic , shipping costs skyrocketed and there are many stories about the significant impact of recent board games on the population. Kickstarter usually has a limited shipping cost, the actual shipping cost is calculated when the game is ready to be shipped and the game company charges the shipping cost to the customer through the credit manager. Some companies just shrug their shoulders and pay more for their sponsors than bargaining. CMON Merkel estimates the cost of transporting zombies to the UK from $ 110 to $ 272 (VAT included). Needless to say, some fans are very upset, especially since the relationship with CMON is not so good.

Other companies negotiated better: some even agreed to use all their profits to pay for some extra costs, but they had to ask their supporters to cover the rest of the transportation costs . Some small board game companies have stopped offering their games because, as beautiful as they look, if they agree to play a non-commercial game, it is unstable.

This does not mean that it often happens with the board game companies who make these heavy boxing games with a lot of miniatures and elements. And there is still a lot of public funding that was funded last year and we still don't know how the shipping costs will be affected because the project is not yet at the mortgage manager level. But with the main advantages, you need to know some disadvantages. And it will slow down the companies following Kickstarter, because these games will be more interesting than before if companies estimate transportation costs better at current prices.

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