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Scythe Board Game

Scythe Board Game

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Set in 1920s Europa—an alternative universe with a rural steampunk twist—Scythe features expansive gameplay with aspects from 4X, area control, engine building, and more. In the aftermath of the decline of the capitalistic city state known as “The Factory,” five different factions vie for control of the land Read More

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BRaxShreds
13
Jan 25, 2019
Per an official email from Massdrop, this drop got cancelled and orders were refunded. Kind of a bummer.
Jukeyjunk
0
Jan 23, 2019
I'm excited to play it... hoping for a quick shipment, no news is good news??!
SalmonShorts
0
Jan 23, 2019
I just saw the discussion on all this from a few years back, is the one that recently ended going to be fulfilled?
BRaxShreds
13
Jan 23, 2019
SalmonShortsIt was originally slated to be shipped out yesterday. There has been no word from Massdrop since the end of the drop. Fingers crossed.
Rysiu
1
Dec 14, 2018
Is the game sold in different languages or English only? I'm interested in Polish version. Thanks!
BRaxShreds
13
Dec 14, 2018
This...seems like a really good price now.
BigC
14
Dec 14, 2018
Excited for this one! I've played the game a couple times with some friends and I can't wait to have my own copy.
Hey everyone,
I just wanted to expand on the update real quick as I sometimes help our Logistics team with nonstandard updates. I helped write this one as what I thought was a 'here's the facts' kind of message, but after reading it again hours later, I can see that the tone sounds unfair towards Jamey and Stonemeier games. I didn't intend for that, and want to elaborate on the sentiment.
Yes our order will not be fulfilled, but I 100% understand where Jamey is coming from as a small business owner and creator. I don't agree with the decision, but it's not my creation that's being sold and bought here so I'm in no position to judge that decision. I had some hope that originally seeing the outpouring here had led him to believe this site wasn't a 'flash sale' or some other bargain bin deal hunter site, but instead as the thriving community of people who truly love board games and were excited to play something so highly anticipated. That's not how it panned out and yes I'm disappointed, but in no way should that be directed at Jamey or his company.
We're very committed to building the community and fostering good relationships with both our members and vendors. This update didn't feel like it embodied those goals and I wanted to rectify that.
Thank you everyone for understanding and I appreciate you all taking the time to support us.
Absolutely. This whole thing reeks, and frankly I won't support SM again. It's like everyone is ignoring what he originally said, or just haven't read back to the beginning perhaps. He made it pretty clear that he had a low opinion of Massdrop, and that he wouldn't see his product being sullied by letting them sell it.... And honestly, this really isn't anything new for JS. I have ignored red flags in the past.... Comments by unhappy customers deleted on his site citing them as "unhelpful"...(Not my comments for the record, but I've seen this happen, and it wouldn't take much googling to find people with this story). Very candidly snide comments in personal email dealings with JS himself when I received a game that was missing pieces claiming that "we carefully check each and every blah blah blah" and passively blaming me for the missing piece.... And I'm not the only one with a story like this... JS Has built a raport in the community and business that makes him feel above the rules it seems. Everyone should play his way, or not at all. I'm with you... when and if I pick up any more games that SM puts out, it will be 2nd hand.
I saw all this coming a month ago and cancelled then... smh.
ThePariah
3
Nov 16, 2016
Jackie.DisapprovesWell, until he bans second-hand sales, at least .....
"When you buy a SM game, you commit to keeping it for all eternity. If you attempt to sell it, we will take your children. I'm just trying to protect my relationship with partners, y'know?"
Schwickey
9
Oct 27, 2016
And the award for the most expected turn of events since Stabby McStaberson stabbed a guy goes to...
Seriously, Jamey is a good dude who runs a small business in a niche market based in no small part on reputation. Bulk Deal Resellers may be able to pull the whole "We don't need the manufacturer/publisher's blessing" routine when it comes to knives, pens, and blockbuster, million-unit cornerstones like MtG, but designer tabletop is small enough that it is absolutely the publisher who calls the shots on in-demand goods. Scythe had around 17,000 backers, so Jamey probably printed something like 20-25,000 copies. (I recall him writing that the margin on Scythe was smaller than normal due to the increased component quality so he did a smaller initial KS fulfillment + retail run.) That left maybe 8,000 copies of Scythe for retail distribution.
For the Distributor to mislead MassDrop that they would receive enough to fulfill their Drop until this late in the game is absurd; Jamey is one of the best communicators in the business and I can't imagine a single Distributor was in any way caught unawares that they were going to come in short on fulfillment. Which means that either MassDrop didn't back down during the initial kerfuffle of their own accord because they thought they had a reliable source (and didn't bother to do due diligence with the Distributor), or the Distributor sent MassDrop whatever was left at the end of retail fulfillment LIKE ALWAYS.
Because that's how Distribution works. Keep the reliable orders from retailers coming in by reliably and predictably filling multi-SKU orders to keep them happy, then clear the racks by selling the leftovers to Bulk Purchase sites. Imagine if word got around that a particular Distributor helped MassDrop fulfilled 461 preorders for 'The Second Coming of The New Hotness' and 230 stores that ordered two copies from that Distributor only received one (or worse)? That Distributor would see a huge falloff in orders as Retailers dropped them like a bad habit for another outfit.
Tabletop as a whole just this past year turned a $billion per annum. Mass market chicanery like MassDrop tried to pull here isn't going to work yet (if ever). They're fools if they think they'll EVER fill a SMG Drop now that Jamey has had this experience. Distributors won't risk having a big multi-SKU order taken elsewhere because they lost a contract with SMG over MassDrop.
aaaaaabi
19
Oct 27, 2016
SchwickeySame thing seems to be happening on the Terraforming Mars drop... sold out everywhere and now they are trying to find copies: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/terraforming-mars-pre-order/talk
ShaneXtopher
14
Oct 26, 2016
Yep. Never again giving my money to either Massdrop or Stegmaier. This whole thing was handled horribly, and dozens of people were strung along for months. Shameful all around.
ShaneXtopherOh I'm sure those transactions look good on the books at the end of the month even if they eventually cancel.
Berinor
4
Oct 26, 2016
I am also annoyed, but I don't know whether to be annoyed at with the publisher or the distributor. If the publisher's terms prohibited the distributor from doing a Massdrop-like retailer, it's on them that they made promises they could keep about violating their terms and the publisher is justified in protecting the price point for other retailers. In that case I'm 90% annoyed at the distributor and 10% at the publisher. If it wasn't a clear violation of the terms I want to be 100% annoyed at publisher.
I'm definitely not annoyed at Massdrop since (as far as I can imagine) they're not a party to any such contract.
aaaaaabi
19
Oct 26, 2016
BerinorMassdrop advertised it at a price that violated the price point for other retailers, even a couple dollars less is still a violation.
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