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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9701964" data-attributes="member: 18">Yup.Really early on, MC made a clear and weird decision that basically he was going to ignore the KS Backers. Now, if they were drawing a fraction of his Patreon income I could understand that. But his Patreon is, by my calculations ($8/month x a bit under 9k Patrons) like $860k/year.So like, if the KS had "only" (sheesh) made say, $1m, I could kind of see deprioritizing it.But it made $4.6m, and yeah obviously some proportion of that is going to manufacturing and shipping the books for people who ordered those, but about 1/3rd of people went PDF only, and based on the numbers I'm seeing, printing and shipping the 38k several hundred page A4 hardback full colour books probably comes in under $1m, likely far, far under $2m (happy to be corrected by people more expert in this, I know some of you have actually done it), with some sources suggesting very significantly less.And given the KS (well, Backerkit technically I see) had over 27k people back it, the majority of people backing are necessarily not paying Patrons on Patreon so basically MC decided to piss off (to some varying degree) 18,000 people in order to big up less than 9,000. So yeah I don't think I'll be backing anything MCDM does again, and I suspect I'm not alone. Particularly as I was on the Patreon briefly recently, and was able to see the full history of updates, and frankly there were quite a few occasions it would have made sense to "go wide" to Backerkit Backers when they just didn't.Doesn't impact my opinion of the game, and I'm not even really "mad" in a normal sense, just disappointed/anti-impressed with the company.</blockquote>

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