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PROJECT UPDATE
Bailey (ze/zem)
CREATOR
12 days ago

Project Update: DOTR Campaign Relaunching in 2025

Hi everyone,


As you may garner from the title of this update, we are canceling this campaign, with the plan of relaunching in 2025 after implementing the valuable feedback many of you shared. 

Before anything else, we want to say a huge THANK YOU to the backers who supported us in the first 48 hours of the campaign, demoed Defenders at conventions, and helped share the word wide and far.

To everyone who commented and shared their feedback, we are listening. We hear your passion for this game, and know that there are several hurdles preventing many of you from backing (and therefore enjoying) Defenders.


Reasons for relaunch

With that in mind, we do plan to relaunch the campaign next year. This is simply a pause to let everyone enjoy the holidays and give our team time to address all the notes.

We’ve compiled all your comments into three main categories:

Price point
We know there was some surprise at the price of the starting pledge level. We love the table presence of seeing the heroes and villains vying for control of Monarch City, but understand that for many of you, miniatures aren’t necessary to feel immersed. Our development team and manufacturing partners will collaborate on creating the best product possible, with the same great gameplay, but at a lower price point.

Achievement types
As supporters of other crowdfunding campaigns, you’re accustomed to certain types of achievements. We’ll work on redesigning the achievement list and organization so that your excitement for the campaign is reflected in the unlocks you help achieve.

Timing
This is a hard time of year for everyone. We didn’t want to disappoint, after already pushing the campaign launch, but good things take time. Instead of asking you to choose between holiday gifts or backing this game, we’ll make the choice easier and relaunch in 2025.


Communication plan

For the near future, all of the work to implement the above changes will happen behind the scenes. The multiple occurrences of “Oh, here’s an idea! Nevermind, it won’t work for ___ reasons” is not worth additional notifications in your inboxes.

We’ll plan on updating you at key points of the relaunch process, such as when the relaunch date is chosen, when we’ve got major progress on changes, and, of course, when the new campaign is live.

For those of you who backed the campaign, rest assured that no money will be charged and your pledges will be canceled.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please let us know here, on BoardGameGeek, or by emailing [email protected]. For those of you reading this without having backed, you can also stay up to date by subscribing to our newsletter.



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Bailey (ze/zem)
CREATOR
20 days ago
A druidic hero here to help with not one but TWO miniatures!
Goal: $0 / $275,000
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We need $275,000 more to reach this goal.
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This seems far too expensive and with so many repeated minis. If there was a meeple version that could half the box size and cost then this would be a much better offer. Please consider alternatives as this may not even fund, I think meeple would be better than standees but both are better than minis. Again 80-160 minis for the factions with 4-8 total unique sculpts, why?

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Wooow this is crazy expensive, I was expecting $100 pledge, maybe $200 all in - Going to be double+ that with VAT/Shipping. I'm backing the base level for now but I might have to wish you good luck and step away on this - 22 days to figure that out I guess 😅

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Price of all 4 minion expansions is $120, price of base game is $150. This pricing means that $120 of the cost of the base game only covers the 80 minions minis, and the $30 remaining covers all the cards, all the boards, character minis, boss minis, 50 plastic coins and rulebook etc. This doesn't seem to make sense, there's something wrong with these price points.

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