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Author Topic: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?  (Read 37326 times)

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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #255 on: February 26, 2021, 12:14:59 PM »
8 years for a PC KS is well past the danger zone. Consider yourself fortunate.
Theres alot less data on failed or really late PC KS as yet. But its probably safe to assume a delay past 2 years is into the danger zone. But unfortunately going past the refund deadline is still the main cut off point. Past that and it becomes either a hassle or an impossibility and as noted, some scams bank on that fact.

While possibly not as much a problem for a PC game. Something brought up with board games many a year ago was that the longer the delay the more likely it is someone has since changed addresses. Dont know if its still an issue. But used to be you could not change the shipping location once a KS funded.

In just the past 3 years one person know has moved twice, another is in the process, another is house hunting to get out of where they are now as the neighborhood is being overrun with drugs and gangs. And so on. An oft unforeseen risk of lengthy hangtimes.

In about the 1-2 years my little publishing company was down I lost contact with several customers as their home and even e-mail addresses changed and I was never updated.

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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #256 on: March 10, 2021, 06:59:16 PM »
Gareth Skarka relatively recently claimed something along the lines that I'm "not a real game designer".

In the TEN YEARS that he has NOT released Far West, I've released 110 RPG products, many of them bestsellers.

And in all that time, I've never taken money from someone on a promise to produce something and then just didn't.

Gareth Skarka is not a real game designer. He's a thief.
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #257 on: March 10, 2021, 09:30:57 PM »
Has it really been three years since it was seven years since Far West was funded?

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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #258 on: March 11, 2021, 12:12:31 AM »
Has it really been three years since it was seven years since Far West was funded?

I'll let you know in a few years.  :-X

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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #259 on: March 11, 2021, 01:17:24 AM »
Has it really been three years since it was seven years since Far West was funded?

I love my little thread, and seeing it celebrated warms the cockles of my heart.  Fight, little thread, fight!  Every minute Skarka posts screeds on twitter is another day you get to live!
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #260 on: December 30, 2021, 11:31:32 AM »
It has now been ten years since Far West was funded.  Gareth Skarka stated that he was 100% committed to publishing it before the end of 2021.  It's now Jan 30th, 2021.  Unless it drops today or tomorrow, another milestone gone by. 

For those of you keeping sentimental score, Far West has entered the 5th grade and can ride a bike.
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #261 on: December 30, 2021, 01:59:05 PM »
That is an achievement of sorts. Be proud, Mr. Skarka! There is something you will be famous for.
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #262 on: December 30, 2021, 05:59:53 PM »
Maybe this deserves a country music-style balad of somesort?

'Its been almost 10 years since the Far West was funded
All this time, ive been waitin here with the RPG-ish pundit

Its been a long time coming, and Im not on my own,
When the hell will mr Sharka drop twitter and get off the phone?'

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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #263 on: December 30, 2021, 06:22:47 PM »
It's hard to admit failure this deep into it. It's like admitting you have a failed marriage after 10 years. It's easier to just plug along with the lies. Of course, the right thing to do is admit failure and refund backers, but if he had that kind of character it would have happened already.
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #264 on: December 30, 2021, 07:35:51 PM »
It's hard to admit failure this deep into it. It's like admitting you have a failed marriage after 10 years. It's easier to just plug along with the lies. Of course, the right thing to do is admit failure and refund backers, but if he had that kind of character it would have happened already.

Oh sweetheart that money's long, long gone.
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #265 on: March 28, 2022, 02:18:28 AM »
I got screwed on this KS, but at least it gave me my pic, which I use everywhere. So not a total loss.

Also, we’re less than three years away from Duke Nukem Forever development length, so bully for GMS for almost breaking that record.
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #266 on: March 30, 2022, 12:29:11 AM »
I'd love to be wrong, but I think we'll have a whole edition of D&D between the time Far West funded and its delivery.  It funded in 2011.  5e was released in 2014.  We're probably going to get 5.5e/6e in 2024.

Hell, Steve Jobs was still alive when Far West funded.

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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #267 on: March 31, 2022, 07:06:07 PM »
Obama was still in his first term as President when it funded.

Hell, Steve Jobs was still alive when Far West funded.
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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #268 on: January 22, 2023, 09:15:03 PM »
Apologies for the thread necromancy.

I just realized Far West was going to be an OGL game, because of how it draws on D6 and FATE.  Can't wait to see how this new twist plays out.

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Re: Has it really been seven years since Far West was funded?
« Reply #269 on: January 23, 2023, 01:58:11 AM »
Eleven years, and less than two years to passing the Did Not Finish (Duke Nukem Forever) development hell line.
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