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Palladium Books Robotech RPG Tactics Board Game
FoxFang
9
Sep 21, 2018
I can tell everyone here for certain that Palladium Books is completely done with Robotech. They will not see a dime from any sales made here or anywhere else online. By late June of 2018 they had liquidated all of their held stock to third parties and no longer hold the license. If you are worried about 'supporting' Palladium books, you'd have to go buy one of their books to do that. This is merely liquidation of way too much produced wave 1 miniatures. As for the allegations of theft. It just isn't true. They wasted the money on reworks of sculpt renders and purchasing way too much stock of wave 1. Mistakenly believing they would sell through it to fund wave 2. Terrible communication to boot as they tried to play for time to find some way of making this work out in the end. Only finally facing cold hard reality when they ran out of time and money to renew the license. I do not work for Palladium books, but I was there. I volunteered to help ship out wave 1 rewards, and ship 'settlement' packages to try and make sure everyone got as much stuff as they could. Of course this will not do anything to dissuade those who want to hurl venom, but it is the truth. For that matter I also enjoy the game, and have way too much of it currently sitting in my Garage. Oh, and I can assemble these just fine, _without_ tweezers. I swear some of you guys have never dealt with fiddly bits before. Get the antennae to stay on infinity miniatures a few times, then come back and tell me all about how you have to break out the tweezers. Or certain battletech minis for that matter. As for any accusations of 'white knighting' for Palladium. I am the first to call them out for the horrific mismanagement of the project and the complete and abject failure of leadership and planning. But I've seen the cars they drive. Nobody took the money and ran. It was misspent, but misspent on wave 1 games. There was no money to give refunds. I was out quite a bit myself and was deeply disappointed. But I got over it.
scrappydoo
29
Sep 21, 2018
FoxFangWell I don't think anyone accused Palladium of buying boats or cars with the money, most of the accusations were levered at them using the money to fund Northern gun books (which were pre-paid and late getting out and then suddenly after they get the money they are sending them out) and of keeping the lights on and paying the bills, also the over-stock of RRT stuff.
EScavenger
1
Sep 21, 2018
FoxFangYeah pretty much what I have pieced together over reading stuff. I think they really got in way over their head.. and made a lot of mistakes.. but I don't think they were trying to take the money and run.. heck why make wave 1 so late if that was your goal. It didn't help either when they were trying to sell Wave 1.. everywhere I went it had bad reviews.. but 90% or more wasn't even talking about the game.. just the kickstarter disaster.. along with the mistakes Palladium Books made.. I think a lot of people waited, and that didn't help.
scrappydoo
29
Sep 28, 2018
EScavengerI think the ire wasn't on the fact they screwed up, but that they lied about it for several years, they kept saying the had the funds to do wave 2, they were just touching up the designs and such, then at the end Kevin finally comes out and says yeah they were out of funds after wave 1 shipped. and he only said that cause he had to.
KennethH
2
Feb 14, 2019
FoxFangThey are still frauds and criminals. Just because they are incompetent and failed criminals does not make them criminals. They took backer money which was to be applied to filling pledges and applied it to producing far more product for profitable retail sales, counting on the profits from retail to fund the next waves. That is fraud and Kevin should be in prison.
FoxFang
9
Feb 14, 2019
KennethHThat is your opinion. Good luck proving it in a court of law. *shrugs* . Despite all your rage, you are still just a geek in a cage. Trapped in an uncaring system.
xWarewolfx
Mar 30, 2019
FoxFangEverything Ninja Division touches turns bad. If their name is associated with a project, like this one, it’s best to avoid it entirely.
Its like Cipher Studios- you can smell the failure a mile away.
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