Drakkenstrike wrote:
This is one of many, many reasons why the Board Game and Video Game markets are so vastly different from one another and why one is years ahead of the other, even though their target audience is largely one and the same. No fault of the Publisher, just a simple truth.
This is something you largely would never see in the Video Game Industry (except possible delays on the Design Side, but almost never on the Production Side).
This is something you largely would never see in the Video Game Industry (except possible delays on the Design Side, but almost never on the Production Side).
screamingtruth wrote:
I'm sorry that the delays are causing so much grief. Believe me I've got a lot of money tied up in the shipment... a lot.
The thing about expected release dates is that they are based on when we expect the product. This is based on a schedule that we have and or the factory has. The date gets effected for multiple reasons. If something isn't right in a proof it delays it. If manufacturing took a day too long and they missed a shipping window and have to wait for the next boat it creates a delay. If customs decides to randomly pick the shipment for an xray exam that it has to wait in line for it is delayed. So the date we expected it failed to come through.
We have decided to stop doing pre-orders until closer to our expected date so that there are fewer possible delays, but this is why we don't give release dates. We give expected release dates because there are too many things outside of my direct control.
The thing about expected release dates is that they are based on when we expect the product. This is based on a schedule that we have and or the factory has. The date gets effected for multiple reasons. If something isn't right in a proof it delays it. If manufacturing took a day too long and they missed a shipping window and have to wait for the next boat it creates a delay. If customs decides to randomly pick the shipment for an xray exam that it has to wait in line for it is delayed. So the date we expected it failed to come through.
We have decided to stop doing pre-orders until closer to our expected date so that there are fewer possible delays, but this is why we don't give release dates. We give expected release dates because there are too many things outside of my direct control.
The biggest reason Video Games have a huge advantage here is that Video Games are mostly manufactured here in the US, so there is no customs nor shipping delays to deal with. Couple that with with the fact that video games publishers have much deeper pockets which allow the games to sit while the supply chain fills up.
As a contrast where the video game industry suffers similiarly to the baord game industry, look at what happened with the supply of Skylanders figures which were manufactured in China and had to deal with shipping etc. They had massive supply issues.