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Crowdfunding has changed the world of tabletop gaming. Platforms like Kickstarter were originally a vehicle for creatives to bring innovative and radical ideas to life. Over time, however, the churn of new campaigns has become primarily a marketing framework for design studios to push mounds of plastic and cardboard at ever-increasing price points. Publishers are taking in millions of dollars, gamers’ shelves are reaching a breaking point, but it’s the games themselves that suffer. The biggest victim of all? Board game expansions.
In the before times not pre-COVID, mind you, but pre-crowdfunding a board game would come out, players would react and give feedback, and then the publisher would follow suit with an expansion if demand warranted. This was a lengthy process, and some games would not see new content for a couple of years. The industry was slower then, and keeping up was more like drinking from a faucet than a firehose. That delay between initial product and follow-u
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Despite them normally being very much a stay-at-home thing, it’s going to be difficult to play board games over the next few months because they tend to involve getting people over and getting social. Unless, that is, you’re playing one of these very good solo board games.