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@NineLives
Thanks!
Lol, we’re building up a movie queue for after the project
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@ecNate
Thanks for the thoughtful critique!
We totally understand where you’re coming from (as backers and creators).
We asked ourselves these same questions while preparing for the project.
We considered making the special features into stretch goals, but we decided that we would rather offer the complete project that we envisioned upfront without stretch goals or gimmicks.
We also considered a larger print run to reduce the printings costs, but with two decks it is difficult to aim for a larger print run as this raises the funding goal. Higher funding goals also seem to dissuade potential backers. Especially, because we aren’t well known (yet
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Small print runs and special features increase production prices significantly. We set our pledges, add-ons, and goal as low as we could safely manage, and have invested a significant amount of our own money (and time) into this project.
The balancing point in the ‘lower cost with shipping’ and ‘higher cost with free shipping’ debate varies quite a bit from person to person. We chose to keep the numbers clean and separate. As you mentioned, we included quantity discounts and when you consider the shipping, the value becomes even better. We are also using a reliable shipping partner (Gambler’s Warehouse) that will handle the decks with proper care.
We also set the printed book pricing as low as possible. As you mentioned, it is expensive to print a book of this size (especially in color) at this low of a quantity. We are not aware of any alternative books aside from one that was published in 1979 which only contains 3 games and costs $18-$20 on Amazon. So, we feel that our book is also a great value for the content.
We are always open to feedback, and will evaluate all of these factors again with our next project. Going with a larger print run (and fewer features) for lower prices, definitely seems like a good idea to explore.
And, we are searching for wall space for the uncuts as well.
Thanks again,
Jason & Antonietta