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Hey, everyone!
A couple quick announcements before we dive into fulfillment…
If you need to change your address for the fulfillment of Wave 2A, we would very much appreciate it if you could email us at support@succubuspublishing.com and let us know by Friday May 16th.
This applies to US backers as well!
While everyone is raising their prices, we’ve decided to do the opposite.
Starting next Friday, May 16th and running through Saturday May 24th , everything on middara.com will have a nice, sexy discount.
Ok, let’s get to it…
Tariffs for Chinese imported goods into the US are still sitting at 145%. Super lame…
Regardless, we’ve got a plan on how to move forward with the fulfillment of this campaign.
Here’s where we’re at:
We have a small amount of surplus units of each of the products on Wave 2A which we will be shipping with the container for Canada fulfillment. This surplus will be available on our webstore. US customers will be able to place new orders for these products at middara.com to be shipped from Canada to the US. We still are not certain what tariff charges will be accrued on orders purchased this way.
The EU store will function as normal and will also be stocked with a small amount of Wave 2A products.
We will be phasing out the store in Australia.
Alongside the delivery of Wave 2A, we will have a brand new Adventure Pack for sale.
This product will be in stock in the US store and EU store. Meaning, this new product isn’t a preorder . It will ship to you immediately. More on that in a future update.
This product is produced in both the US and China and is small enough in scope that the tariffs will not spike the price up.
With the US orders in a state of fulfillment uncertainty, showing all of this off feels a little bittersweet, but we owe it to all of you to show off everything!
View the gallery on our website or keep scrollin’.
Well, we’re not sure yet.
If the tariff drops, then nothing changes. If the tariff remains outrageously high, we’ll need to diversify.
As we source new factories (of which there are many!), we’re finding that a good amount of the larger board game manufacturers in China have sister factories in Vietnam. It may likely be the case that our future print runs will involve some combination of production between the two countries, with the printed components and final assembly happening in Vietnam. We may be taxed on certain portions of the game like molds and dice, but not all of it.
We are also getting quotes and samples from factories all over the USA and all over Europe. Unfortunately, it’s quite clear that the factories in the US cannot handle the scope of this project. For some of the simpler projects we've been working on, it does seem possible.
To be clear, we are not giving up on delivering Wave 2B , quite the opposite. We’ve worked so hard to see this project come to fruition. There’s no way that we will be settling with just giving US backers free PDFs and calling it good.
The playtesting for Acts 2 + 3 is nearing completion. All of the playtest groups are in the final few chapters of the game with our lead developer Ian following right behind them with their feedback. Most of the really tough issues have been ironed out at this point so we imagine the remaining playtesting will go smoothly.
Once all the feedback is implemented, we give the product one final graphic design pass and then we package it up to submit to the factory for sampling.
Pirates of Elenia, Vol. 1 - Chasing Legends has been designed, dev’d by our team, laid out by our graphic designer, and is in playtesting now. Our alpha-tester has done a complete pass through the product, cleaning up all the little issues like typos, style-guide, rules inconsistencies, etc. Right behind him we have 2 full groups running through on TTS. They seem to be having a good time with this one. That’s what matters, right?
Mid-May (next weekend) was our goal to finish playtesting, which is next weekend. We’re hustling, but it’s going to take us another couple weeks.
Either way, we’ve begun to line up proofing and sampling of all the other products on Wave 2B so that no time is wasted.
Despite everything happening right now, we’re more excited than ever to get this Kickstarter delivered to your doorstep, regardless of where you live.
We’re prepared to put our house up for collateral and sell everything we own to make sure that you’re slaying The Pit Boss this summer and Hogrifar soon after.
Thanks for being here!
