I don't know if it's the fat grease or desperation that smells worse on these guys.
It's just so much of a weird retarded gotcha. And his people just keep eating it up for some reason.
I said it before, when I was a simpler person, I fell for this shit and backed a few books that looked half-way decent, so far, only 1 maybe 2 were actually worth the money and wait, a wait that has gotten to fucking long I didn't remember even backing the fucking things.
I got Frog book 2 last year, which was 2 years after it successfully funded itself.
I lucked out I guess. I only became aware of CG in late 2020 or sometime in 2021. And was a little iffy on crowdfunding at the time. I think the only thing that kept me not backing anything at that time was that a lot of the stuff didn't interest me that much. It seemed like the majority of the stuff was horror (don't hate it, just not my favorite), EVS frog comic (didn't find it interesting), your run of the mill hero that looks like he ate all the steroids, and some other stuff that didn't seem all that exciting. The craziest part is how more than a few of these still haven't been fulfilled.
I suppose it's a good thing though. Seeing how things worked with CG, outside of the occasional whim, it helped make it so I was less willing to back stuff unless they seem to have a good history on fulfillment and customer service. It's strange to me how a lot of these creators don't seem to understand that spending $25+ on something that will probably take a half hour to read, only be read once, and put away forever is a luxury. And that it'd be nice to get it before you die.
If they had printer problems, why not befriend Eric and ask him where he prints, since he manages to get his shit out on time and as far as I know, they aren't breaking apart and molding over.
Not CG, but I know Shadiversity or however his name is spelled had some issues that finally got worked out. Renie had problems too. But printer issues don't seem to be very common though. I get that sometimes it might take some time to get the paper ordered/delivered, but the main issue seems to be laziness in getting the books finished and file sent to the printer. Or OCD in trying to make every little thing perfect (possibly less common).
Sort of a tangent...
Perhaps they prefer to keep it local, but I do find it surprising they don't try to find or work with certain printers around the country. Can find or vet 10 or 20 or whatever number that makes sense to work out special rates for CG people. At the same time, I suppose it might not be enough work for the printers to even toy with a discount though. Not to mention, shipping to wherever might make the whole thing a wash.
I could be remembering wrong, but I think Eric clarified on one of his streams that he meant the next winter coming up for the Yaira when this was brought. But like you said, either way it doesn't matter. Eric hasn't taken a dime from his customers for the book so I don't give a shit which winter it's coming out, he'd still be miles ahead of these grifters sitting on their backers money drama farming instead of getting to work
Pretty sure I recall seeing something about Winter 2023 at one point, but that later got changed to the more general Winter. Since the Alphacore comic started going out in late November, I think. And the campaign finished in early January. I think the Winter 2023 goal got updated. But I admit, my memory could be bad and I'm getting mixed up with people on Twitter.
If I had to guess, since Eric likes to have at least some of the stuff in the warehouse before starting the campaign. He's waiting on something from the printer before starting the Yaira campaign. Either way, my bet is on the Yaira campaign starting the week of March 4 or 11; most likely the 11th. But even then. As you have said. It's not like people have purchased it yet. Plus, most of the people complaining it's "late" are probably not going to buy it anyhow.
And then (what has also become a new talking point), Goodyng and/or Horseman (whatever is coming out next) will probably not go the campaign route. Where it'll be a straight purchase from the store and not a 2-month preorder campaign.
But smooth brains have a different take:
And here is the video posted by Erwin
Remember the Pitt Posters? the Dale Keown PTP deal that probably started the dungeoner shit fit? Here is a backer posting a week ago
Yeah. I didn't back them. But they were supposed to go out in December or January. Of all the campaigns, unless EVS spent the money I'm surprised this is held up. He was given the art by Keown prior to the campaign and they were colored/recolored by EVS colorist if I recall correctly. The only thing left was to get peoples money and then get the posters printed and finally mailed. Of all the possible campaigns he could do. This should have been a stupid simple campaign to finalize.
Hopefully Keown got his money. I think the whole point of the campaign was because he was hard up at the time.
