Age of Annihilation - Backer Trend and Discussion

[Sherman Davies]

Originally Posted by SuperSamyon

Fast forward to today and one of the criticisms I see levied against the Heroscape consumer is that they are very insular and don’t understand how much board games cost today followed by a statement of “if only they knew how much of a bargain this all is.” Let me turn that phrase around and say this: the hobbyist board game collector who lives on Kickstarter is in fact very insular and doesn’t understand that the rest of the world thinks spending $200+ for a board game is absolutely insane.

Thanks for providing the "outside the geek bubble" perspective. Well said.

Originally Posted by brak88

And it's odd to me to see many stating on social media that they wish the game would come back, only to be like "well, I really only wanted like 4x of a common squad and two heroes for $50. After ten years of wanting, I just wanted like one 500 point army worth of stuff."

It's possible that for many 'Scape fans - particularly those who've hung around for the past 12 years - there really hasn't been a whole lot of "wanting," because VC sated the hunger for more 'Scape and thus AoA just looks like VC-quality units, but unpainted and more expensive.