I suspect it'll be a bigger problem this side of the pond, as the Kickstarter exacerbates the existing consequences of being the "poor relation" in Ares' distribution chain. Retailers will get the stock later, and at a higher price, than Kickstarter buyers, so anyone with a strong interest in the game is *extremely* likely to have done the Kickstarter, and not to buy retail (doubly so as these aren't models many people will want duplicates of.)
Heck, I'm in as a Kickstarter customer myself, as I'll get the models long before they reach me through trade channels, and I doubt there'll be much difference between the *retail* Kickstarter price, and what ends up as the *trade* price in Europe. Obviously I hope I'm wildly wrong on all counts, but wearing my retailer hat, this is the first
WGF product I'm seriously considering not stocking at all, or at most maybe getting one or two of each, rather than my traditional dozen of everything approach when a new series reaches the distributors.... I suspect any problems will be less marked on your side of the pond, as both the time delay and the price differential will be much smaller, but retailers would probably be wise not to anticipate much of a flurry of initial sales - effectively the kind of customer that normally preorders a new series is extremely likely to have done the
KS instead, so stores will probably have a steady trickle of sales, without the usual new release rush.
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